WARNING: Spoilers will be unmarked.
This comic will make you scream with laughter, delight, pleasure and absolute fear.
- Izzy and Adelie's mother, especially when she's in her "Morrigan" personality. Earlier strips only showed a little glimpse of how she made her daughter's lives a living Hell, but the later flashback strips in Vol. 5 truly and fully show just how monstrous the woman truly was...
- In one comic, just after an otherwise heartwarming moment between the two of them, Izzy and Addy hear a loud noise and realize their mom is awake.Addy: Which one?
Izzy: Guess we'll see in a minute.
Morrigan: She's leaned her back against a thorn
And there she has two bonnie bairns born
Aye there she has two bonnie bairns born.
Down by the greenwood sidie-oIzzy: Uh-oh. It's HER.
Morrigan (her diseased red eye is now peaking at the door): She's torn a ribbon from off her hair
She's choked them till they growed still
Aye, choked them till they growed still
* stops singing* Down by the greenwood sidie-o. - Then we get her first, full appearance, titled "Mother
". She has blond hair with grey streaks all over, her right eye is completely red with the vessel veins popped out and she has needle scars all over her neck and arms. She stares at her daughters with a deranged, rage-filled and almost murderous glare. She clearly intends on doing something unspeakable to them. The narration boxes do not help: "Hail, Morrigan! Three-faced witch queen! Mother of monsters! Mistress of nightmares! Hail! Hail! HAIL!"- And she starts singing again....Morrigan: O bairns, bairns, come tell me true...
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR YOU?!
- And she starts singing again....
- Later on, in one especially horrifying case for both She Cleans Up Nicely and Shoot the Shaggy Dog, Izzy calls a social worker and tells her of the terrible treatment she and her sister endure and how their mom is unfit. However, as she brings her to the apartment, Izzy....finds her mother in the kitchen, dressed neatly, happily baking a cake and greeting her daughter, eerily different from how she usually acts (yet still clearly obvious that it is all a lie). This fools the social worker and makes her leave. At first, Izzy wonders how her mom knew what she done. Turns out she didn't; she just took a bunch of Adderall and decided to clean the house. Then, she drops her fake motherly fadcade and prepares to attack Izzy.Morrigan: If either of us were lucky, you'd have never been born. But you're not JUST unlucky, bonnie bairn? Now? Now you're in trouble.
- Then, the reader, along with a high-on-acid Izzy, see disjointed glimpses of her past and they are not pretty. We see two shillouetted figures having an argument, then a bruised, crying young girl, a younger Morrigan, cowering over an angry fist (presumably one of her parents') and that same girl with her irises split into three. And then we see her biting into a stranger's shoulder and an older Morrigan making some money, having sex with what looks like a shadowy monster (and she doesn't seem to be enjoying it, either) and finally her pregnant with Izzy and Addy and getting her first gray streak. Oh, we do see the younger Morrigan again in some kind of weird sphere, sitting in a panicked fetal position covering her ears as her eyes are once again split, presumably the first time her personalities are developing. And in the middle of this insanity? Izzy's enlarged eye... and her irises are also split into three.
- Finally, it all comes to a head when a mentally fractured and enraged Morrigan decides to kill her own daughters. Starting with "Quiet", the series of strips leading to her driving her car off the pier and leaving her kids to drown in the ocean will definitely give you nightmares. Even when you know Izzy and Adelie will be fine thanks to the combined efforts of Florida Man and Red Snapper's mother, you will still be fearing for their lives.
- While this is happening, we also meet her other two personalities, visualized by two separate panels, and they are almost screaming in her head as she is driving. One of them is full of white hot rage, cursing out both her daughters and the people on the pier, while the other (presumably her more rational, sympathetic personality) cries for her children and clearly does not want to do this. Unfortunately, she is ignored as Morrigan is in complete control and goes through with her attempted murder. It is simultaneously scary and sad.
- After she's done the deed, Morrigan sings one last song...Morrigan: *as she floats in the water* Ye'll sit upon his white hause-bane,
And I'll peck out his bonny blue een.
With ae lock of his golden hair,
We'll make our nest when it grows bare.
Many a one for him makes moan,
But none shall ken when he is gone.
Oer his white bones, when they are bare,
The wind shall blow.
Forevermair.
- In one comic, just after an otherwise heartwarming moment between the two of them, Izzy and Addy hear a loud noise and realize their mom is awake.
- Asher, an Ax-Crazy, misanthropic, misogynistic Serial Killer, is also capable of delivering nightmares to the readers. Especially when he delivers one hell of a Nightmare Face. Like here or here.
- In fact, the "Hazard" arc in general is a brilliant display of just how terrifying Asher can be. After Izzy fires him through the phone (mostly because the board of directors finally grew tired of his violent antics), he decides to kidnap her, drag her to his hideout and attempts to murder her but not before giving one disturbing Motive Rant that truly defines his character.
Asher: You think you can fire me? If you've got no more use for me, then what use do I have for YOU? Of all the wheezing female holes that have the audacity to call themselves human, you are the most worthless pieces of meat I've ever seen. Although we're all meat, Izzy. Some of us just expire sooner. I've killed fourty-eight people before you. You're gonna be number forty ni-Izzy headbutts Asher in the stomach, interrupting his monologue.- After that, Asher reaches his Rage Breaking Point and tries to choke the life out of Izzy while also delivering the most disturbing Title Drop (well, almost) you'll ever read.
Asher: You don't GET IT! I get what I want because I TAKE what I want! The rest of you sacks of filth and disease only get sadness and death! All your money means NOTHING because YOU are nothing! ON YOU GO!- Then, trying to save herself, Izzy slices half of his face off with his own cleaver. She even takes out his eyeball and a good chunk of his left ear. The results are....not pretty. Not helped by the almost animalistic shriek of pain he delivers in the last panel.
- Venus' Rage Breaking Point in "Resolve." That face she makes in the last panel is quite scary, not helped by the fact that it's something of a Call-Back to this.
- The first appearance of Ghost Boy. Even though we learn that he's really a Friendly Ghost, that page might still tingle your spine.
- When Len and Sarah send their souls to a mysterious astral realm to find Methany, they discover her soul within said realm and.... she doesn't look too pretty.
- Throughout all of part 1 and most of part 2, we never truly seen Calixta get angry before, even when punching someone. Well....until now, that is.Calixta: *still covered in spaghetti, clearly in shock* T-they... made me look s-s-s-stupid.... In f-front of Max.
Vanitas: Thooooose three foooormed a human pyyyyramid. Yooooou're worried about loooooking stupid?
Calixta: *gritting her teeth, trembling with rage* I'MUNNA FUCKIN KILLEM.
Vanitas: *gleefully* Yaaaaay! - Max forgets his medication when tracking the person throwing the spaghetti around the school at night and starts hearing voices. Even worse, when we take a look, we see that his eyes are splitting like his grandmother's when she started going crazy
- Upon learning that Vanitas had his heart broken by his ex-girlfriend Andromeda, Max meets with her after the festival to talk. And he brought....company.Andromeda: He's a weird little freak and I'm tired of his shit.
Max: Harsh words.
Andromeda: Again, SO WHAT? He needs to grow up. What do you even care?
Max: Bro code obligates me to have my say.
Andromeda: (mockingly) OoOoOoOh, that supposed to scare me? What're you gonna do loser, beat me up? You won't hit a girl.
Max: (clearly pissed) Do not presume you know what I am capable of. But no. I'm not gonna do anything to you. Vanitas and I aren't THAT close. But HER?
Calixta lumbers right next to him, carrying a blank expression that clearly underlies a hidden, murderous rage
Max: She's Vanitas' best friend.
Calixta reaches her hand toward Andromeda, about to do something to her as the last panel turns pitch black. - After riding the Marlinator with Max and Calixta, Brittany is finally having a reaction from Omegaman's blood transfusion; her eyes begin to spiral and cry out black blood as white veins sprout all over her body. The color of her speech balloon even begins to invert. It's pretty terrifying to watch, and even makes you wonder if Omegaman went through something similar after receiving his powers.
- It gets worse in "Bogus", as the Omega Force explodes out of Brittany. She reaches out to Max for help, however she ends up dragging him to her as oppose to repel like her cousin. And as he's closer to her, she's back to normal. This implies that Brittany's Omega powers allow her to attract people or things to her, whether they seem to want to or not. And Brittany seems willing to use that power to get with Max. Either way, Max's reaction will be similar to the reader's....
- Finally, there's her AlphaBitch form in "Alpha". It's not as bad as how an unmaksed Omegaman looks, but it's still terrifying to look at.
- It gets worse in "Bogus
