The Visit (3 / 3)
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April 25th, 2008

The Visit (3 / 3)

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….and here’s the end!

Next week, I have a guest comic set to run. Thanks for bearing with the hiatus!

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  1. Jez
    April 25th, 2008 at 7:06 am

    I only just noticed that the old man is hovering off the ground slightly. How come the boy isn’t floating aswell if he’s dead?

  2. Arthur
    April 25th, 2008 at 7:30 am

    Jez: Earthly concerns are holding him down.

  3. Tom
    April 25th, 2008 at 7:52 am Tom gives a rating of 4Tom gives a rating of 4Tom gives a rating of 4Tom gives a rating of 4Tom gives a rating of 4

    Well that was dumb.

  4. StrangeQuark
    April 25th, 2008 at 8:31 am

    @Jez: I enjoyed the story and don’t mind the little “mistakes” (they’re necessary to throw us off, anyway). But if you’re going to be picky: why isn’t the boy wearing his hospital gown?

  5. Ben
    April 25th, 2008 at 8:36 am

    Aren’t ghost stories really just an affirmation of an afterlife?

  6. Dan
    April 25th, 2008 at 8:53 am

    This is eerily familiar… Have we really not seen this story here before?

  7. Matthew Gallant
    April 25th, 2008 at 9:22 am

    I really was curious how the ending would play out, and this was a pleasant surprise. Well done!

  8. grady
    April 25th, 2008 at 9:34 am

    So he had an identical twin all along!

  9. Ananya
    April 25th, 2008 at 10:27 am

    Fantastic story! Very moving.

    While we are nitpicking, in image # the boy’s arm has the sleeve of his red tshirt which looks like it’s a ‘ring’ since his flesh can be seen on both ends. This does match with the boy though.

  10. D
    April 25th, 2008 at 11:00 am

    The “ring” is the hospital wristband.

    The boy’s wearing of clothes, walking instead of floating, and the like are all aspects of his not realizing or putting together that he’s dead. Pretty much every ghost story of this style have the ghosts wearing whatever they normally wear, because like the human form (rather than some blob of ectoplasm) ghosts cling to what was familiar and comfortable in life.

    The largest example of this story, in recent memory, is M. Night Shyalaman’s “The SIxth Sense”. This, “ghosts not realizing they’re dead yet” tale is much older however. Mind you I am not slamming the comic, I think it’s a fine literary/cinematic tradition, one that is good.

    As opposed to the Bronte sisters, who are a very BAD literary tradition.

    Oh yes, and I thought the boy’s corpse-arm looked odd, but I think that falls under “hands are hard to draw.”

  11. Jez
    April 25th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    @Strangequark, I was suggesting it was a mistake. I had actually only just realised that the old man was floating. Not trying to be picky, just wondering. S’all. Arthur’s explanation makes the most sense.

  12. Shou
    April 25th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    That was a lovely little story, I liked it. (: I wonder, if he didn’t have help, would he ever realize he was dead, though?

  13. Paul
    April 25th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    @Ben: Ghost stories are no more an affirmation of some afterlife than stories of someone being a reptile are an affirmation of reptilian humanoids walking amongst us. (Yes, some people actually make such outrageous claims) Eye-witness accounts of such unbelievable things have very little to no weight without something feasible being presented.

  14. Sigurther
    April 25th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    My first thought was “Oh, man, that SUCKS!”. Not the comic, that was cool, but the kid figuring out he’s dead. Poor bugger. I thought this was gonna be something much stranger, like the man was some sort of immortal demigod whom even death and the removal of organs for the purpose of organ donation could not kill, and the kid, for some reason, was the only one who could see him.

    Yeah, but I see what you did. You went the other way. ;)

  15. Baker
    April 25th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    The strange yellow aura around the old man… is it translated to the boy in the last panel? (That seems like a feeling of “closure”…)

  16. Asbduhas
    April 25th, 2008 at 4:36 pm Asbduhas gives a rating of 5Asbduhas gives a rating of 5Asbduhas gives a rating of 5Asbduhas gives a rating of 5Asbduhas gives a rating of 5

    So sad…

  17. Joshua
    April 25th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

    Story of my life….literally…

  18. Frank
    April 25th, 2008 at 11:43 pm Frank gives a rating of 5Frank gives a rating of 5Frank gives a rating of 5Frank gives a rating of 5Frank gives a rating of 5

    Wow….

  19. Anonymous
    April 26th, 2008 at 12:23 am

    Dead people read SCP!

  20. Eklen
    April 26th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    After looking at it about 10 different times, I finally just got it.

  21. Tomical
    April 26th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    Aw man! I loved this story. I’m so glad it was put back on the site! I’ve been waiting since, well, since it was taken off. Good.

  22. Melindotty
    April 27th, 2008 at 7:46 pm Melindotty gives a rating of 5Melindotty gives a rating of 5Melindotty gives a rating of 5Melindotty gives a rating of 5Melindotty gives a rating of 5

    LOVED it!

  23. Nick
    May 2nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    I’m sure I’ve seen this strip before…

  24. imp
    May 8th, 2008 at 6:07 am

    So… he found his dead twin. He was shocked so much that he forgot about wraith, which got too close and caught the boy in a kind of ectoplasmic field, which overwhelmed his free will and made him follow the wraith. Then, which is not shown, the wraith eaten the boy and, presumably, gave ‘boneses’ to troll.

    I think I got it.

  25. Evil Engine Number Nine
    July 9th, 2008 at 2:26 pm Evil Engine Number Nine gives a rating of 5Evil Engine Number Nine gives a rating of 5Evil Engine Number Nine gives a rating of 5Evil Engine Number Nine gives a rating of 5Evil Engine Number Nine gives a rating of 5

    Question. The man in the blue shirt with the tissue on his face in the first strip… Is he the boy’s father and is he crying because his son is dead?

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