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cyberghostface (cyberghostface) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-27 14:11:00

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publisher: warren, title: creepy

I Hate You! I Hate You!

This one's from Creepy #37.

Disclaimer: To the best of my memory, Warren magazines (Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella) were in the 80 to 100 page range. So the minimum maximum (is that an oxymoron?) would be 26 pages, and none of the stories have gone past that length.

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	sandoz_iscariot 2009-04-27 01:46 pm UTC (link)
	What's with all the black and white striped clothing? Are they the Hamburglar family? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fungo_squiggly 2009-04-27 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	I was thinking of a family of French mimes. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	schmevil 2009-04-27 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I actually loled. Nice. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	queen_marshed 2009-04-27 01:52 pm UTC (link)
	And it never occoured to him that if he'd treated his son better then he wouldn't have gotten into such a mess. -___-; (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-04-27 02:00 pm UTC (link)
	Wouldn't that create a paradox and cause him to cease to exist? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	queen_marshed 2009-04-27 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	Better than getting repeatedly blown up that's for sure! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	parsimonia 2009-04-27 02:01 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, yes, physics is always the path toward evil. I don't quite understand how the mother died, but damn that story is like a horribly messed up version of Back to the Future. The story's plot twist style reminds me of the few Twilight Zone episodes I've seen, though. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	midare 2009-04-27 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	I suppose she committed suicide by turning the gas oven on and closing all doors and windows. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-04-27 02:06 pm UTC (link)
	I can't believe they all wore the same white shirt. How embarassing. (Reply to this)

	halloweenjack 2009-04-27 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	BiologyFail--there should be a 50/50 chance that he'll have a daughter rather than a son, breaking the cycle (although if the cycle continues often enough, his daughter would end up with a pornstache eventually, not to mention extra thumbs). (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-04-27 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	Its not like he's having multiple children though--its just the same event playing over and over. If he's his own son, there's no way he can have a daughter. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bluejaybirdie 2009-04-27 03:52 pm UTC (link)
	So, is anyone else squicked out by the Oeipedial issues here? I mean, he's doing his own mom. shudder And man, what an idiot. He should have just treated his childhood self better and prevented the murder! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-04-27 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	As stated before, that would only make him cease to exist entirely and create a time paradox--whether or not that's a better alternative is something else entirely. (Reply to this) (Parent)

pyrotwilight
2009-04-27 04:33 pm UTC (link)

A bit but I'm more shocked at just how stupid the guy could be. The man he killed didn't look like his father or himself I mean gah. the woman he married was exactly his mother, she didn't look any different their or if she did she was definitely not drawn as such.

Then again she's only his mom due to time travel non physics...oh who am I kidding it barely makes sense anyway.

Yeah. I mean would he really want to live if he doomed himself and his younger self to the same fate?

Seems like a pretty easy choice.

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psychop_rex
2009-04-28 03:06 am UTC (link)

While I agree that the father business was pretty stupid, him marrying his mother is different - he married her as a young woman, whereas as a kid he only knew her after she was a good decade older and had developed worry lines. I mean, how many times have you watched an old movie that stars someone who looks awfully familiar, but you can't... quite... place him, and then the credits roll and HOLY CRAP IT'S SUCH-AND-SUCH! Jack Nicholson is in the original 'Little Shop of Horrors', but I did NOT recognize him at first because he was really young and his face had not acquired the recognizable shape it now has. It's the same general principle - I doubt I would recognize my Mom if I went back in time and met her when she was my age.

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	mullon 2009-04-27 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	Well NOW I am. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	superfan1 2009-04-28 01:21 am UTC (link)
	raise hand yes and seven kinds of ewww! Although laugh at the matching clothes. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zegim 2009-04-27 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	Love the flashy poses he uses to smack around his young self. (Reply to this)

	queenanthai 2009-04-27 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	YES! Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! This was the first Warren Magazine story I ever read - I think I was eight - and it's been stuck in my head for AGES and I could NEVER remember how to describe it to request that someone post it! Thank you for killing my brainworm. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-04-27 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks! Glad I could help. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dustbunny105 2009-04-27 08:22 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, so-- his genes + his mother's genes = his genes...? ... Okay, I can live with that. I kinda have to boggle at what a moron the guy is, though. He goes to the past, meets a woman who looks exactly like his mother and it doesn't occur to him that she's his mother? Really? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-04-27 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	It wouldn't be the first (or last) time the whole "I'm my father" subplot has happened in fiction. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dustbunny105 2009-04-28 02:06 am UTC (link)
	I thought it was usually "I'm my own grandfather". Not that it makes much more sense but for some reason I'm more willing to let it pass. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kosaginolegion 2009-04-28 07:02 am UTC (link)
	The best one of that genre was Heinlein's "All You Zombies", where the main character was his father and his mother, as well as the man who recruits him into the Time Corp. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	vignettelante 2009-04-27 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	"Doomed to an eternity of hating fathers and hating sons and exploding cars!" (Reply to this)

	persoconchii 2009-04-28 03:15 am UTC (link)
	so aside from obvious Oedipus-complex jokes "and thus the cycle of violence continues!" (Reply to this)