Issue 18, Page 26
Transcript
1: On the screen is an ad for a sitcom. A young deer child sits in shock and surprise before a rather large mess of batter. The audience laughs and reacts with her.
Cymbeline: Uh oh…
2: Melissa rushes into view, in a turtleneck sweater, arms out.
Melissa: Cymbeline! How’d you get in such a mess?! Where’s your mother?
3: Julia is seen shrugging and smiling in a bright shirt. She shrugs exaggeratedly and the audience laughs.
Julia: Don’t blame me! I let you do the cooking!
4: The family is posing behind a logo of their show, reading “Doe is Me”. Julia stands proud next to Melissa, who is holding up the laughing deer. In the corner is the Gateway logo, a delicate lotus design.
Narrator: Watch out for season two of Doe is Me, only on Gateway.
5: Julia’s head has split open into a four part black mouth, and long tentacles with jagged spikes lash out to impale Melissa’s face and arm. She and the girl are flinching and screaming as the cartoonish logo continues below.
6: Julia wakes up in extreme shock, gasping for air. Brightly lit, this is not on the TV: she’s in a stark white bed and wearing a surgical gown.
7: She sits up, in a pale white room with a security camera. She’s rubbing her head.
THE…
FLUB???
Man, my life being a sitcom would be a nightmare too! 🙂
Being honest, eldritch horrors randomly doing violent things would help me watch sitcoms again.
Julia… oooh, I hope we get some answers soon! Immy, I gotta admit, you’ve got me legit worried about a fictional character here, it’s… weird and awesome at the same time. Bravo!
I’ll take, “her mind is intact, but trapped in a dream like state that looks real while the monster puppets her body” for $500, Alex.
I think it’s less a “dream” and more just a distortion of perspective – keeping with the “theme” the Black Idol has shown to other people. In other words, Julia appears perfectly normal to herself and thinks she’s behaving normally, but everyone else sees the beast and its actions are decidedly not safe.
Final…two episodes, I think, of the 12th Doctor’s run on Doctor Who played with this concept *fantastically*. I think they’re specifically the reason my mind went there when I saw the last panel.
So more relevantly, A) I bet you’re right, B) That’s so much worse than dream-state.
SHES ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a nice dream! I like to think the kid is just used to dodging at this point.
Yay! Julia’s back!
And she’s totally separated from the black-monster thing! (At least, she LOOKS like the monster
is gone). 😀
Great work on the sitcom-like pages, Rebecca!
Meaning- I knew that some horror stuff would probably get into the sitcom-thing,
but the “Doe is Me!” pages really frightened me! Great job! 😀
Welp you did it, you found something more horrifying than being the meat puppet of some eldritch horror …. living in a sit com
at least it’s not a “reality show”
Oh, there she is… Wait, where is she?.. And when?..
Behold the dangers of falling asleep with the TV on.
I’m not really thrilled about the black dome on the ceiling.
The black thing is, I guess, covering a surveillance camera.