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1 year 6 months ago
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My mother used to buy me this comic book series when went camping. It was border line horror, but in a goofy way. The title was something like "Splat" or "Kersplat", I can't remember the original name. The comics were a collection of short stories by various artists in a digest, pocket book style format. They were tied together by a pair of narrators that usually made comments about the stories between each. The stories usually involved people being killed in odd ways, eaten by monsters, etc and usually ended with the name of the comic, "splat".
I remember some of the stories from them. Here is one in particular: This artist was famous for his monster sculptures and made HUGE amount of money on them because of how "alive" they looked. His wife was domineering and cared only about the money that the statues brought in. It turns out he has a magic potion that when applied to a statue, it came alive. When a second potion was applied it turned back into a statue but with the characteristics and definition of something that was frozen in time. The artist then made a statue of a beautiful woman, who he animated and fell in love with. He turned her back into a statue each night and hid it from his wife. One day his wife went looking for him in his studio and found the female statue. She was angry with her husband because they only make money on monster statues so she too a sledge hammer to it. Infuriated by this he kills his wife and hides the body in a statue of a demon. He then bumps his potion and falls onto the new demon statue, with his dead wife inside. The last scene is a couple of art critics marveling at his latest work, the demon dropping a massive block of clay onto a statue of the artist with the word SPLAT as a part of the statue.
Like I said, the comics were dark, but not gory or scary. I was 13 when we stopped going camping which was in 86. I know there were a number of them, although I don't know ow many.
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