The Scariest Comic of All Time
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Happy Halloween everyone! Today we talk about what I believe is the scariest comic of all time, Sandman #6: 24 Hours. Comics are hard to make scary. You don't get the sound of movies or the length of novels. But in 24 pages and 24 hours, Neil Gaiman makes a story that is just as terrifying as any great horror movie or novel.
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Listening to the audiobook version of this episode on public transport was a truly unnerving experience. Having to sit there with all those people around me, listening to extremely f*cked up things and having my skin crawl the entire time with a straight face... phenomenal story
Same here. I was in the car with my family when I got to this bit, and I was basically pretending to be asleep just to stop anything from showing.
With hindsight, given that closing my eyes just gave my brain free reign to visualise everything even more, probably not my smartest moment. Ah well, you live and learn (except for the diner people, I guess…)
I was listening to this at work, surrounded by other people, and I couldn't help but to throw around nervous glances, like I was doing something inherently wrong
What app/program do you use for audiobooks?
@@Mansory811 audible probably
How did they manage to turn a comic like Sandman into an audiobook? The visuals seem extremely important. Did they add a lot of narration to make up for it?
The fact that this story is set in Delaware creeps me out. I live in Delaware and there’s a shitty 24 hour diner right near my house.
Coincidence I Think Not!
I would never touch that place if I was you
Don't be like that, keep support your local business BUT the second weird man in trench coat bring red glowing rock enter those store
RUN.
FOR.
YOUR.
LIFE.
As alumni to UMES I know the feeling
If you see someone wearing slippers there, just leave dude. Just leave.
Watched this only after watching Netflix show adaptation. Jeebus there are some differences, down to Dr. Destiny having slightly more sympathetic motivation - here he just forces all people in diner to tell only truth to each other, as he "hates lies". It was extremally dark expirience and now I am even more interested in comic version
Sweet jeebus isn’t it Adam.
Yeah the adaption is terrible, The comics are surreal and scary at times where the adaption is like turned into harry potter or twilight. Nothing alike at all outside of a outline of the plot
@@dabblerdeluxe775 I disagree. The adaptation goes a different direction which fits the general theme of the live action series. It's more perfect in my opinion.
@@CaptainJeoy then it didn't go far enough if they want to reimagine the series. The Boys is a reimagining that I think is better than the comic by far for example. This adaption is way to lazy to be a reimagining and looks like someone used the rough outline of the comic book and stripped out all the serious and horror elements to produce a very bland product. it doesn't help that a huge chunk of the comics was locked out due to Copywrite issues
@@dabblerdeluxe775 I don't think we watched the same Sandman series. You're probably referring to the one you saw in your dreams, not the one Netflix produced.
They did absolutely fantastic doing an adaption to this comic.
This was about to say. I’ve watched this video way before I looked up the Sandman comic. And watching the Netflix adaptation this video essay come up to my mind.
but it's not based on this specific comic though. Or at least they haven't adapted 24 Hours to the live action series.
@@hihowrya370 yes, they did, it's episode 5. They changed things though, it's not Doctor Destiny anymore, it's a character we've learned to know, and we know his goal, and his goal is a simple thought that everyone has had at least once, a world with no lies. That means that people can identify with him at the start, and then it goes to the end of argument, if no one lied, the world would be much more cruel and because at first you can identify with the intention of a more honest world, the result is even more horrifying
And hands down the best episode on the show (thus far)
No they not.
Just watched the episode of Sandman where this story is adapted. That was so insane and the buildup was crazy
this issue was really disturbing and dark loved it one of my fav issues in the series gosh the chills i got when i first read this issue
How early this comic came in the run is why it works so well. It sets up the evil that can be brung out of people, a theme that reoccurs through the series
Oh THIS one! I remember the first time I read this! I walked away feeling ill, like I'd been dipped in evil. I'd never read Sandman before, and I thought the whole thing was like this. It put me off of Sandman for a LONG time.
I usually skip it on the re-read
I read this on an airplane while highly stoned. That was a weird life choice...
Gaiman really reinvented Dr. Destiny, one of the most boring League villain.
He pulled a Tom king 30 years before
This character was created in a time where supervillains didn’t need a motive they were just evil, he didn’t even have a name in the original Justice League comics. Neil Gaiman wanted to show what would happen if there were no superheroes around to stop someone like that
Just listened to the audible adaptation on a road trip at 4 in the morning, the chills it sent were honestly a life changing experience.
I read this book around 15 years ago, and still this images is fresh in my memory.
Also go over the Sandman audio book! It does this issue in the audio book and it scared the shit out of me.
What makes this work and the live-action both horrific is the Dinner itself, with the loss of the "lies" the dinner loses its Space Spirit (the dinner is as haven, a "temporary" moment/place to prepare, perceivable with its similarity with the Poem of Bukowski - Nirvana) and by losing it the "garden of eden" is broken by a snake ( the doctor ). The horror arises from the natural and gradual "loss" of something valuable (a dinner that is good ENOUGH, to ease the day and get you prepared to the task at hand), by an unlucky encounter with EVIL.
It could even be the scariest, but when you discover Junji Ito and Kazuo Umezo you discover the true horror.
But 24 hours it´s much before the mangas, dude. For the time who was released, was truly shocking and visionary in horror genre.
@@arthursouza9641 both the industry and horror manga are older than Sandman, at the time of EC comics we had mangakas experimenting with this genre as much as Neil Gaiman, Kazuo Umezo is one of those there's a story of him criticizing toxic marriage at a time when it wasn't thought about or given due relevance, with that I say that Sandman is very unique and has done a lot before, but it wasn't the first.
@@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947 a big part of that though is that america had massive horror media erasure throughout the 50s and even all the way to the late 70s book burning and comics code authority limited the scope of what comic books were able to tell. I’m not saying it’s scary then ito because it isn’t. But when it came out it made waves for how much it went against the grain.
@@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947 jesus christ go read manga then why spend time shitting on books youll never read
Mfw Japanese guy draw gore so scary not really
This is so messed up. I love it. Scary, creepy and I never think I'll be the same again 😂
Diners aren't scary? Try working a 24 hour one alone in a major city. On the overnight shift.
While I agree that 24 hours is fantastic... I cannot agree that it is the best horror ever written. It's freaking fantastic, mind. It's brilliant. But Junji Ito simply takes every cake when it comes to horror in comics.
When I read this comic, I suspect 24 hours would work better as a written story instead of a comic. Maybe because I already read Junji Ito, that hits this sweet spot of balancing visuals and stories, maybe because I am not raised in America so this setting just didn't disturb me, maybe because John Dee is too cartoony with his googly eyes. I can see it scares people at the time, but taste moves on I guess.
@@imageez Yeah, that's why for me the live action version is more disturbing than the comic
i think junji ito might be a bit too fantastical/absurd for some people, hence why this comic is considered one of the best.
This issue really disturbed me bro. Idk abt anyone but i felt pretty disgusted after reading this
The episode was better simple cuz of how much more casual it is
The show version was good, but I think the comic is much better, with Doctor destiny having “GOD” written on him and how it was so much more brutal to the characters
Gaiman came to the US during the British Invasion, in the 1960s? Huh? When he was, what, eight?
the british invasion in comics was in the 1980s and 90s - gaiman, alan moore, grant morrison, mark millar, warren ellis and garth ennis are the most prominent names involved
As a berserk fan I find this cute
As a Junji Ito fan this was a nice little story :)
As a Cormac McCarthy fan i find Berserk to be tame at best.
@@drsoe08 NO FKN WAY DUDE I WAS JUST WATCHING A VIDEO ABOUT NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
@@ross8858 read blood meridian and child of god
@@drsoe08 yes they are on my book list
The episode portraying this is so good
It was truly gorey. I felt like stopping reading
I just saw the tv episode that this was based on, and it was genuinly horrifying.
The... TV episode... this was based on? You mean you saw the TV episode based on this comic. The comic is much older
@@aSipOfHemlocktea don't u understand English?
@@aSipOfHemlocktea Yeah, sorry, my bad 😅. Regardless, both iterations of this story were really unnerving. However, I think that what makes the tv version slightly more scary is that John believes that this is actually a GOOD thing for humanity. Sure, it helped reveal a lot of things that SHOULD'VE been revealed long ago, but seeing the direction that it escalated into, it needed to be stopped.
Best single issue I’ve ever read. It blew my mind when I first read it in high school. I love this comic so much I’m getting one of the panels of dr destiny tattooed on my ribs
Is everything ok at home?
''John Constantine. That's t-i-n-e, rhymes with fine.''
I came here because of the Rusty Cage song "The Devil's Bagel" which is a retelling of 24 hours, I had never heard of 24 hours before, so I was shocked to see the similarities to The Devil's Bagel
And they left one of the most horrifying lines out of the TV series - "Remember kids, don't cut across the wrist..." They did it again in the Cereal Convention where they left our when the Corinthian announces "And now we take turns." It made me sad.
The audiobook chapter hit like a freaking truck I was like wtf am I listening to dude (didn't even know that the sandman was a comic in the first place fyi)
coming back to this video again and i must say this was my first in depth introduction to The Sandman years ago, I put it on the reading list for later but just these months I kept reading the comic after watching the series , surprised because when I got to episode 5 I was like "WAIT, this scene is from that comic that I saw an analysis of a long time ago, is it the same?? that's so cool"
I totally loved the series, episode 5 is my favorite along with episode 6
Miracleman #15, which came out the year before Sandman #6, is a better contender for “scariest comic” and a clear influence on Gaiman here. Kid Miracleman makes Dee look like a Care Bear.
And someone created a fan film about this issue
Where can I find this??
@@ross8858
Here the amazing short:
czcams.com/video/5kIP70LAIBI/video.html
If the live action on netflix make 1/3 of this quality, will be excelent.
@@ross8858 it's on youtube
@@senhor_errante thx
Thank you
John Dee
I don’t know man, I have a copy of Barefoot Gen. That gets under your skin. Like broken glass. Or irradiated flesh that peels off your bones while you’re still alive. Mainly because it describes real events.
sometimes i wonder what gone through everyone's head who criticize the series by saying it's really bad, bla bla bla. i mean ur entitled to ur opinion and maybe ur truly love the comic but, dang? a show with that much love and effort put into it, with beautiful actors and actresses, with mesmirizing worlds that they created in the series truly u can just easily said the series is bad??? at least give them props for trying like damn people can be that harsh sometimes huh?
You're defintely right.
So wait... who died during "murder in the dark," I kept trying to figure it out and I couldn't
I'm having trouble finding this comic, is there anyway I can buy it? I keep getting other things popping up instead of this
U can buy the volumes off of Amazon or audible
Yea finding the exact issue is a pain in the bung lmao better to get the volumes
Just get the omnibus. I have all three and definitely amongst my favorite series in my collection.
I feel like however they adapt this issue in the show will be a good judge of whether the adaptation will work or not
For a good minute I thought they had the voice actors from the audiobook playing in the live action in time with the book
Episode 5 of the Netflix series was basically gore porn.
How does telling the truth result in everyone having sex?
Yea idk man that was weird
@@sirchooch9680 there’s no explanation. In the comics, he has control over them in the diner but in the show all he is doing is revealing truths… I don’t understand how that results in an orgy
I understand it's subjective, but Gaiman's horror works best in his books, I think the art took a lot of the tension away, plus the characters don't act naturally because they're being forced.
Anyway, I even agree that it's one of the best comics that exist, but in horror it is much inferior to its colleagues of the time and in comics it's not as difficult as if Gaiman discovered the genre in the comics, EC Comics did it with excellence, manga and Europeans do it more potently and Sandman improves a lot in my opinion when he embraces fantasy more.
You forgot the truely terrifying curse of evil tim!
Uncanny X-Men #143 -“Demon”
Young Kitty Pryde is alone in the mansion on Christmas Eve, stalked by a N’Gari demon.
Scariest Moment: As the demon reaches for an utterly exhausted Kitty, she only has time to scream.
Sandman #6 is the scariest comic of all time.
Junji Ito - what am I chopped liver?
of all the issues of the sandman comics i've read, this is the one thing that I didn't forget. So when the trailers for Sandman popped and realized they were showing this, I kinda prepared myself to just skip this whole episode.
Coldest intro ever
Yeah… this issue stayed with me.
I got to be honest, the adaptation of this fell flat for me in part because they went to far with humanizing John dee. In the comics John dee is a cautionary tale, twisted beyond belief by otherworldly forces it’s hard to even attribute the horror to his making as he was made just as much by the gem never meant for human use.
John Dee also is visually much more human than the comic counterpart which looks like a rotting corpse. Though i wouldve loved to see Dream end John Dee forever but the ending shown really tells us how deeply he has been affected
gun or a curse
If you think it's scary, y'all should try mangas🤷🏽♀️
Has bro never read an Junji Ito comic? Scarier than this one for sure
Junji Ito's "comics" are mostly one-shot and doesn't have proper ending nor closure to the issues.
Didn't want to dig out my sealed comics to refresh my memory on this but I actually rememnber the comics being scary,sinister,surreal and emotionally tense.
This netflix adaption is like harry potter meets twilight completely devoid of dread and emotional intensity.
I really dont like when people say "neil gaimens" sandman. without the artists it wouldnt exist.
man if you think this is scary you should read uzumaki. or any junji ito work for that matter
It's not that scary when you think about what it can teach you. Scary and fascinating walk a similar line.
you said of all time and I agree 100000000000%
I don't think the episode in the show did this arc any justice
Amazing video. You should do the history of Sandman. Go over the Golden, Silver and modern age Sandman.
I personally loved the scene in the new show where Morpheus said "it's Morphing time" and sanded all over them.
you mean the BEST comic.
Doc Destiny was a joke in the series
Clearly you've never read the crossed
Junji ito comics/manga still owns the title
I thought the issue was a bit predictable based on previous issues personally.
pect.
君が僕らを悪魔と呼んだ頃\けだものたちの時間～狂依存症候群\Gantz
It’s morphin time
W. Maxwell Prince's Ice Cream Man series is frequently scarier than 24 hours. Whereas 24 hours presents a group of people in a meaningless and horrific situation, we know how, and to a certain extent, why they are there. Dr. Destiney is using Dream's ruby for entertainment. It is horrific, but in the end, you know that is not the normal state of the universe.
Ice Cream Man makes no sense. Each issue has just enough of a narrative through line to get you invested in the characters, before they are plunged into whatever nightmare Rick has created this time. Rather than simply revealing the horror, ICM simultaneously reveals and obfuscates the horror. Just when you think you've figured out the overarching narrative, you hear the bad music like insects crawling on your bones, and you are left even more disoriented before. It's cosmic horror, but on an entirely individual level.
Excited to see it in the show. Was disappointed heavily when nothing good happened in the show 😖
The comic will always be better than the show imo^^
No, some hellblazer issues are scarier
Newcastle was very fucked up.
And someone decided to make a fan film about it
Comics cant be scary???? Read Junji Ito. Neverending Terror...
That's manga.
@@channe3049 You know that comics and manga, if you ignore the superfical differences, are the same medium? A with panels and text told story? Therefore your answer makes not much sense because my argument that you can tell scary stories in this medium is still valid.
@@channe3049 manga and comics..po-tay-to po-tah-to.
I couldve bought one of the omnibus things for the sandman a few days ago and I rlly regret it but I am selling my stuff on ebay and I will buy it and boy I will enjoy it
The early issues of sandman are the best. The other arcs featuring the endless and other personifications are the weakest out of the whole series.
For me it's the opposite, when he abandoned Horror he found the right language.
Shame the adaptation was awful. They Netflix series really cut out and tamed a lot of great content, especially from this story.
I hate how tame and homogenized the show was. Glad we still have the comics and Audibles…
This ep in the season was really boring, it wasn't till the ending that it got interesting.
Let me guess: sex?
Why is it always Herogasms
@@falconeshield no I meant the face off with deer and Dream. The sex stuff was the most boring.
Gaiman said it was long so that you could actually get to know the characters
@@sirchooch9680 that’s the thing I got so board by getting to know the characters that it took everything I had not to skip it or I would’ve wondered how it lead to where it did. Ya know it’s like he has this stone and he’s using it to manipulate 6 people to test his theory which absolutely had no merit. He should have been going to different places. But I know that’s how Gaiman wrote it. It seriously wasn’t till Dream showed up that it got interesting.
@@dx7689 yea I see what ya mean
Shame the TV adaptation of this issue was so disappointing.
Fuck that!
Not scary at all. I thought it was boring when it first came out.
69th like NOICE
Zzz
i’m sorry but the show sucks
The show it´s an almost frame by frame adaptation, dear dumb.
I read the comic 3 times and it´s very faithful the adaptation.
You have sure you read the same comic as me ?
I found the comic pretentious and self important and ultimately boring
Nice to see Gaiman was pandering to the sjw twitter mob before they even existed. Can't have the scariest story in comics without a lesbian, and a Trump allegory.
Trump allegory before he was even president? You are reaching on that point but maybe you think any blond haired chubby businessman in comics is “Trump.”
For those watching in 2024, If you want the definitive experience of this issue, read it while listening to Audible's The Sandman. Is haunting and super scary
Dream is Dream, neither god or anything like