The neighbors
Just as well. The ball fell into one of the holes in their yard.
From Port Sherry Monthly – Issue 9 (October 2020). Thence the cover:
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I’m trying to figure out if that’s supposed to be a reference to something specific.
Oof, that was very, very creepy. I love how an apparently meaningless sequence of disturbing pictures can create such a sense of dread, it reminds me of the content of the tape in the movie Ring (the Japanese version)!
@Mark nothing specific, just vague disturbing imagery. The setup is somewhat inspired by The Sandlot, though.
@Max thanks, yes they are meant to conjure more disturbing stuff than they actually depict. I had a few other panels ready for the sequence but the shock wore out faster the more I added!
@Pedro Arizpe, haha now I’m curious, would it be possible to see the panels that didn’t make it?
They stayed as vague sketches. One was a mallet hitting a large bag with a green hose coming out of it, a goblet full of teeth and a house pet, lying down but awake, with insects crawling over it (never got to decide which animals exactly). It was kind of diminishing returns, less is more, etc.
Wow, pretty sinister… all of those sound like they could have worked pretty well too, especially the bugs-covered pet! I’m glad you stuck with the ones in the comics though, like you said more than 3 or 4 pictures would have been a bit of an overkill (especially with that poor kid turning his head in every direction haha).