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Post by codystarbuck on May 23, 2021 20:19:42 GMT -5
Christmas with the Superherores #2; the Alan Brennert Deadman story, as covered in my Brennert thread.
The Patty Cake Christmas Special. She wants some plastic toy playset that is expensive, but her father makes her a rocking chair, by hand and she is ungrateful. After her mother scolds her for not appreciating the work he put into it, she tells him she has only seen Patty's father cry twice, once was after Patty spurned his gift, the other was the day she was born, but those were happy tears. It cuts to the father sitting in the dark, and then he hears squeaking and sees Patty rocking in the chair, as she sincerely thanks him. Scott Roberts captures the emotion of the moment well, and sets it up beautifully.
Not a comic book, but the comic strip For Better For Worse; the sequence where Farley rescues April from a flooded river, then he collapses and dies, after she is safe. You didn't want to see it; but, sine everyone aged in real time (more or less), you knew it had to come, at some point. At least he got to go out a hero. Someone had a headstone for Farley created, with the strip likeness, and presented it to Lynn Johnston, the creator. She said she put it in her back yard, by a tree, where her beloved spaniel was buried.
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Post by majestic on May 23, 2021 20:52:00 GMT -5
I was never really emotional until I had a mild heart attack a few years ago. Since then a lot of things make me emotional mostly because i feel like I got an extension added to my life.
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Post by Ricky Jackson on May 23, 2021 23:15:48 GMT -5
The last page of the first part of "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" had me on the verge of tears, maybe out of solidarity with Supes.
Non-classic, but the last issue of Allred and Slott's Silver Surfer run hit me the same way. Going through the whole Surfer and Dawn story, and being in a long relationship myself, it really packed an emotional punch at the end
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Post by Confessor on May 24, 2021 8:37:12 GMT -5
I've never been moved to tears or even gotten moisten-eyed over a comic book...or any prose book either, for that matter. Of course, I do find certain comics very moving: Maus, "The Nearness of You" from Astro City #1/2, Spider-Man: Blue, Laika, Marvels #4 are examples. But they don't even make me slightly watery-eyed. Films don't really get me that way either, with the odd rare exception.
Really, the only artform that has the power to move me to tears is music. Not that I get moisten-eyed over that very often either, but on occasion I have found music to be so powerful and overwhelming that it's properly made me blub. But comics? Nah.
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Post by shaxper on May 24, 2021 9:08:25 GMT -5
Music makes me cry. Not loved ones dying, not terrible things happening in the real world... but I'm unable to sing Jacques Brel's Amsterdam all the way without choking up. I think it has to do with where we put dams around our emotions. I sort of made a conscious decision to let myself cry if I felt something while reading/watching in my 20s. I've had enough happen in my life that all my emotions are locked up tight to the point that I often wonder if I'm faking emotion when I'm with others. But they come out freely when I experience art now, and that helps quite a bit. When I felt nothing, I felt as if I wasn't even living. And Prince Hal, thanks for the reminder about Laika. that reminds me to include I Kill Giants too.
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Post by DubipR on May 24, 2021 9:24:46 GMT -5
Daytripper - Absolutely perfect. I cry every time I read it We3 - Gets me in the heart. Love & Rockets - the Death of Speedy Ortiz. Still the most emotional scene in comic history, in my opinion. Pride of Baghdad - Wasn't expecting that ending. Peter Parker: Spider-Man #33 - Peter goes to see the Mets play and reminisces about going to the games with Uncle Ben. Peter Parker: Spider-Man #35- That a kid's view on who Spider-Man is and means to them is different to everyone. It's so heartwarming.
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Post by chadwilliam on May 24, 2021 21:18:17 GMT -5
"The Miraculous Return of Jonathan Kent" Action Comics 507-508 by Cary Bates
For 30 hours, Jonathan Kent's death is stricken from the history books. The only people who remember that he's supposed to be dead is Pa Kent himself and Superman. After determining that the man seated before him at a surprise lunch planned by Lana Lang is, in fact, his adoptive father, Superman doesn't even try to figure out the solution to this mystery so grateful is he to have his father back. The feeling is mutual for his return is the result of the elder Kent's deeply rooted wish to have lived long enough to see his son grow to adulthood -a desire which was never fated to be, but which can be temporarily granted by a powerful alien race Jonathan Kent had assisted in a previous Superboy tale. The catch is, in 30 hours history will revert to normal and not even Superman will recall any of this - a secret which only Pa Kent is privy to and why he spends this time seeing to it that his son gets the life he thinks he can't have starting with his revelation to this Lois Lane lady he's just met but whose importance to his son is obvious that, yes, Clark Kent is Superman.
As the story comes to a close and with it the 30 hour deadline, Clark Kent reads a note from his father apologizing that his visit couldn't be any longer.
"Dear son, hope you're still not peeved at me for telling your secret to Lois! Very soon it may not matter as much as you think! Anyway, I'll be back in Smallville by the time you read this! Why don't you drop in for a return visit after your newscast? All my love - Pa."
As Clark catches Lana seemingly forgetting that today is March 7 and not the sixth as she's announcing on air, the note begins to vanish and with it, all memory of the past 30 hours. Once again, it is March 6 and we see Clark who, despite forgetting the time he got back with his father, paying Jonathan Kent a visit in Smallville nonetheless, as he stands before his grave wondering why he felt that now was a good time to make such a visit and why, suddenly, he feels closer to him than he has in a long time.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 24, 2021 22:20:53 GMT -5
I've never been moved to tears or even gotten moisten-eyed over a comic book...or any prose book either, for that matter. Of course, I do find certain comics very moving: Maus, "The Nearness of You" from Astro City #1/2, Spider-Man: Blue, Laika, Marvels #4 are examples. But they don't even make me slightly watery-eyed. Films don't really get me that way either, with the odd rare exception. Really, the only artform that has the power to move me to tears is music. Not that I get moisten-eyed over that very often either, but on occasion I have found music to be so powerful and overwhelming that it's properly made me blub. But comics? Nah. Amazing Spider-Man #400 was emotional but not cry worthy. (Damn you retcons!!) and I’ll never read We3 again cause [expletive deleted] but that’s really the only comics I can think elicited an emotional response from me. All that said just watched the Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid episode of Supernatural and that chokes me up a bit when I see it. But in the context if you’ve loved one person that many years her coming back will bias you some. I’d love my zombie wife.
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Post by james on May 25, 2021 2:30:14 GMT -5
Death of Captain Marvel FF 285. What a heart breaking fucking story
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Post by MDG on May 25, 2021 12:58:54 GMT -5
The way Sam Glanzman uses the dog to bookend A Sailor's Story is pretty effective:
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Post by codystarbuck on May 25, 2021 14:33:30 GMT -5
Yeah, it was, though Sam omits his two brothers from the book, which I found odd.
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Post by String on May 25, 2021 14:46:02 GMT -5
In my youth and early adulthood, there was really nothing that made me tear up that I've read in a comic. Sure, plenty of *gasp* moments but nothing on this scale. But here recently, after some of life's changes and effects, I've found that may no longer be the case.
Today, so far there's been two comic moments that have made me tear up, both of them recent, both of them by Jason Aaron.
First, Mighty Thor (second series) #1. This was the premiere issue after the reveal that Jane Foster was the new Lady Thor. In the first two pages, Jane is describing the physical and mental effects of her chemotherapy. Now at that time this issue was released, I myself was going through my own chemotherapy. If someone were to ask me what going through chemotherapy was like, I usually tell them that I don't have the words to describe it. To truly understand it, you would need to go through it yourself, to know the depths of how it affects you physically and the changes it wrought mentally and emotionally.
Well, here in these two first pages, Aaron comes damn near close to having those words through Jane's dialogue caption boxes. I was really looking forward to this new series but after reading those two pages, I had to put the issue down for I was about in tears. It was several minutes or more before I felt I could continue reading. Aaron had the words and Jane understood.
Second, Mighty Thor (third series) #705. It's hard not to be cynical these days for death has no real meaning in comics anymore. So, yes, we the readers knew that Lady Thor, Jane Foster was going to die whether by her cancer or by her deeds. But knowing doesn't mean you're prepared for what will happen.
The two page final scenes with Thor Odinson and Jane, the one panel scene of Jane's response to Thor's plea of "But I..I know not what to say." It was simple, direct, poignant, beautiful and made me cry. Again, I had to put the issue down and it was several minutes before I could continue.
Aaron's depiction of Jane's strength, her resilience in enduring this harrowing experience with cancer, an experience that I could relate to and with, helped form a stronger emotional attachment for me with a fictional character which is why the Lady Thor will forever be one of my favorite characters and stories.
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Post by tonebone on Jul 16, 2021 10:49:32 GMT -5
This exchange in Superman for All Seasons always gets me right here.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2021 11:15:13 GMT -5
To me the question doesn't have to be literal tears, but a very strong and sad emotional reaction, and these certainly did it for me: Fantastic Four #267, the last page, I wouldn't wish this moment on my worst enemy. james , #285 that you mentioned was beyond heart-breaking as well. "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man" from ASM #248, I still remember the feeling seeing the reveal at the end. And finally, as a Legion fan in the 80's, I did not see this coming and it just crushed me. While character deaths had happened plenty of times before, I think the sheer brutality of how Karate Kid was beaten down just hit me much much harder.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2021 12:05:44 GMT -5
This exchange in Superman for All Seasons always gets me right here. That's a really endearing moment!
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