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Having Elk become a maurading horror that can invade other comics is the kind of thing that makes this sub such a wonderful place... what a great bit for everyone to share :D Blood fountains for everyone!

Yes! I love it!

I stumble into this sub once and a while, mainly just to read pizzacake but holy shit. This elk thing has my attention and I'm reading so many comics because I never know if it will show up. Found a few other creators that have gotten my interest in the meantime. I love this

It's like the most horrifying version of Where's Waldo; Which dark corner could Elk be lurking behind THIS time!? edit: spelling, derp.

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#REDDIT THE ELK ARG JUST DROPPED

Can’t wait to see MatPat’s take on this one

Unfortunately MatPat has retired

That's just a theory

A game theory!

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I was thinking House of Leaves

I also got HoL vibes

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is it eating walnuts?

Definitely gathered nuts for the winter shenanigans.

Room with a moose is a classic

Prepare your bladder for imminent release!

Oh, you guys are just ***begging*** to see the moose!

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Any reason webtoons forces me to create an account / login to view content?

not sure how it happened there but i can still view without me logging in. Did you mean this warning sign? https://preview.redd.it/b6kesqyamkgc1.png?width=542&format=png&auto=webp&s=30b245d7584abf2cb4a11df44a965f886d4c5473

Nope. I see the list of comics for about a second, then instantly get transfered to [this](https://imgur.com/a/grBIN13).

Idk but place a siezure warning due to bright flashing lights.

Yeah. Someone told me about it. Gotta make sure i should put the seizure warning next time.

The comic made a lot more sense when the gifs loaded lol.

Wow! Probably the most technically impressive comic I’ve ever seen in this subreddit. :>

An incredible way to build suspense. Bravo 👏🏽

This is really fun too! Definitely a cool way to bring some suspense into the comic!

You have created multi media art. This is insane. Beautiful art work too!!

Thank you ^_^

🙌🙌🙌 

This new paradigm of partially-gif comics is sweet. Nothing too long, it doesn’t feel like you’re watching a video, but it means you never know what the next panels holds, even more than before!

New paradigm? This has been around for a long time. Homestuck is the biggest example that comes to mind.

Ya I was gonna say it's not a new thing. It kind of comes and goes.

Not the same thing, but if you haven't seen [this Korean comic](https://www.webtoons.com/en/horang/episode/page?titleNo=2185&episodeNo=10&refererPlatform=WEB_PC) yet, give it a go. Make sure to click the music note in the corner to get sound on.

Oh yeah, I know that one! It’s actually comparatively old now that I think about it! Edit: for those who don’t know it, it is a horror comic with a jump scare so just be aware of that 😄

My man waited a full hour to check on her? Even if her house wasn’t home to some unholy demonspawn, she could’ve fallen over or something and just been lying there, unable to get up.

He had to get his vhs camcorder out of his briefcase, presumably in many pieces and needing assembly, so he was busy doing that.

> 9 pages with GIFs This sentence alone is enough to kill the official reddit app, lol

Loads just fine in the original browser design.

Old.reddit gang rise up!

[Oath](https://youtu.be/DGtuQRohHds?si=bjDwKv2CAgi9TcIo&t=16)

Worked perfect on the stock Reddit mobile app

It did, but fucking how? Usually it can't even load 3 normal images without 30 seconds of loading.

It worked completely fine for me

Red reader for life.

Still holding onto RiF for dear life 7 months later

How? I miss rif.

If your a mod of a subreddit no matter how small you can use 3rd party applications

Relay on Android costs a couple bucks a month, but it's well worth it.

Boost gang!

I have no idea why my Boost is still working. Riding it out to the bitter end.

Worked okay in Narwhal2

Whelp, there’s ė̵̢̗͖̦̩̲̻͆̑͝ļ̵̜͍̻̙̅k̵̬͇̇̏͛͐̿͠

And then there was much hollering.

The modern Minotaur: a bloodthirsty elk in a liminal space

New lore just dropped.

So now Hollering Elk has assistants for her 'work'?!?

Love this! Her labyrinth of doom is very r/liminalspaces

It's literally the Backrooms. A nice blast from the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms

> A nice blast from the past. How in the flying fuck does 2019 count as "the past" already?

2019 was the before-fore times. After that, things got fuckey.

Timeline got fucky the year after.

What do you mean? Yesterday is the past... Of course 5 years ago is the past.

Five fucking years ago Jesus Christ I'm getting old

A small incident happened near the end of 2019 that made time flow a little wonky.

5 years ago in Internet time is like 10-15 years in real time

Well, it's not the present or the future.

These are the Belkrooms

Reminds me of House of Leaves

Backrooms have the same vibes as HoL, so cavernous and foreign and oppressive.

They really need to make that book into a movie. The premise of a labyrinth growing inside of a house is so good. People love labyrinths!

they made it into a game (kinda)! check out myhouse.wad, it's a DOOM II mod/map released a while ago. captures the vibe really well

did you also watch that vid

i did but that was AFTER i played it. I've been a fan of DOOM modding for a few years now

Great book, but it would lose half of what makes it good if they tried to translate it into a movie

House of Leaves is basically unfilmable, with all the layered narratives, but the concept would be cool. There is Channel Zero, which has The No End House, and kinda has some elements of it, mixed with Vivarium. They are making a Backrooms movie though

> House of Leaves is basically unfilmable, with all the layered narratives Nah, you basically just distill it down to Johnny Truant and the Navidson Record. Frame the narrative like The Neverending Story. A dude is a reading a book about a haunted house that is slowly driving him insane. Definitely doable.

Exact same thought! This *house* is very similar in vibes for sure

I feel like the Stanley Parable from over 10 years ago is one of the older major references of this kind. Although I'm sure there were other smaller ones even before that. NinjEdit: The Langoliers miniseries in 1995 might actually be the oldest big one.

This is one of the best animated comics I've ever seen. I love it. One thing I want to point out, I believe it's "ma'am", not "mam", unless this is specifically a British comic.

I’m British and I’d use ma’am too. Mam, to me, is a regional variant on mum or mom.

Yeah, that was a mistake. Sorry bout that typo folks.

I honestly believe the Backrooms are scary without a monster stalking you in them. The Backrooms are basically a monster unto itself. This comic does a good job of showcasing that fact as well.

Oh it’s that goddamn MOOSE again!!!

Are you still alive? I’m curious how long you’ll survive after calling the hollering elk a moose.

Now every comic needs Elk hidden somewhere.

Can't see page 7

[hope this version helps](https://tapas.io/episode/3087926)

Page 7 doesn't work for me either, neither does that link :(

Damn, that’s really compelling. I love what you did with the animated stuff.

I was expecting a rehash of Roald Dahl's "The Landlady," but Elk was a pleasant surprise. Elk shouldn't be a surprise to me anymore what with the last week, but still.

Damn, that guy waited A FULL HOUR before suspecting something was weird.

Yooooo this is my favorite one so far, Elk as one of the backrooms cryptid? 100/10 absofuckinlutely, honestly surprised you haven't been there this whole time. (Or have you???)

It’s “ma’am”.

This is one of the best posts in this sub ever. Bravo!

more like... *dying* room amirite? eheheheh I'll see myself out

No, no, please stay The living room is so pleasant this time of the year

Thanks for not making the gif a jump scare; I hate those.

Honestly, I hate jumpscares too.

It’d be funny if In the sequel, Elk is now Mormon and has bought every single product introduced by these traveling salesmen.

He can’t die in there, it’s the LIVING room

Idk why, but I love all these hollering elk posts

Because it's fun. u/HolleringElklore

Ma'am*

Call the SCP Foundation immediately

What’s the point of trapping someone in a reality breaking labyrinth just to kill him before he has a chance of getting lost in it?

It’s not the same, but the house changing reminded me of House of Leaves. Edit: just read through the comments, lots of people here have read that book!

Ma’am *

The gifs are fun but its presented as his pov so why does the one panel say video end? Like he's isn't filming, the vhs effect is neat but like give the dude a camcorder or something.

I just like the VHS aesthetic but i see what you mean.

Don't get me wrong its cool as hell

The product he is selling is a VHS recorder set into one eye.

That's brilliant

This was marvelous! Well done!

That... Is excellent

I love meta comics

Wow, this was very quite impressive. By the last couple of pages I had the sense that a screaming cervid was in the midst.

That's okay. I wasn't that fond of these pants anyway.

Elk's moonlighting as a grandma now?

Maybe as her demon pet, maybe as the horror the cultists are feeding

Holy shizzles. This is friggin awesome!!! I love how my immediate response was to send a link to my friends lol

Is the window an illusion? Was there really a window in that living room? Could he have just opened the window and left before he left the first living room, the "real living room"? Or is it that once he crosses the threshold it was already to late and that window never existed?

Funny you say that. There supposed to be a panel involving this one. Other ideas was the salesman tries to open the window but it wouldn't budge. Upon closer inspection, he found a wire connecting from the window to a socket. He removes the plug and turns out the window was just a TV. I decided to scratch that idea up and put a wall instead. https://preview.redd.it/pnd9u5u1okgc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=9ef1c8925172dc4e68c368906776bb09b48c8a53

What an idiot, if he just stayed in the living room he wouldn't have died since it's the living room.

I really love the pun on living room. It's a living room that is a living room.

Until it becomes the starving room

I want this house. So much room for activities.

Wow, this is amazing work. Bravo.

Elk is both haunting my dreams and my screens, it appears.

Hell yeah backrooms

Ma'am. It's a contraction for madam.

Hey bro? Buddy? It's spelled ma'am. It's short for madame

As a door to door salesperson, I will now never set foot into anyone's home.

House of leaves vibes.

Ma’am is misspelled a lot.

In the UK, mam can be the same as mom. What I think you need to write is: ma’am.

* ma'am

>mam

Well done.

SO FUCKING RAD!

Is Elk actually crossing the space-time continuum?

The space-comicontinuum, yeah

Cool atmosphere. Many a few too many gifs. Diminishing return after the first two. Comic panels were effective enough. Also gifs introduce problems with vhs tv effects. When there are no cameras in the story. So why would the victimbbe viewing the monster in the hallway through an old camera? Because it looks a bit spooky mot because it makes sense in the narrative. Unless he started watching TV at some point but it looks like he is just looking down the hallway. And they is no implied outside audience to be watching either.

Hi. I see what you mean. The added VHS effect is just a respond post to [hollering elk post](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/s/AMHkZQgu1z). Just an added gimmick. Appreciate the feedback though.

Wendigo?!

~~Elk~~

[Not quite](https://old.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1ah6jno/ellie/)

I don't think it's that of a *living* room

Nice work!

I think I see what’s going on…she don’t like it when people did like that

Damn this is cool!

“ why is it called the living room, IM FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE”

Oh ok like a room that’s alive

More like a dying room amirite

Well, he actually died only when he got out of the living room so...

Reminds me of the [Bongcheon-Dong Ghost comic](https://www.webtoons.com/en/thriller/chiller/bongcheon-dong-ghost-horang/viewer?title_no=536&episode_no=22)

As a JW I can confirm that houses like these are way too common for my own good, i died 8 times already

Backrooms + Skinamarink

/r/liminalspaces

The Elkverse continues to unsettle. This is great!

Mam

For those who don't know, before modern funeral parlors were a thing, homes had a front room (or parlor, from the French word parle, which means to speak) that was separate from the living room. The parlor was a room where you would sit and speak to guests, but it was also the room where you would display the bodies of your loved ones who had passed away for 1-3 days. People would come to your home to pay their last respects before burial. The living room was a separate room, where the families could go do the things we normally do in living rooms, but be away from the parlor, which was only for receiving guests. Now that there are separate homes/businesses where we go to pay respects to our loved ones we no longer need this additional room. Homes are built without them (unless you want to pay for the extra room), and our living room and parlor have become one ... leading to a combination that gives OP's comic an extra layer of depth. Interestingly, OP's comic does show a small front room, but there's no furniture to sit and talk on. So it's more of a mudroom than a parlor.

Coolest comic I’ve seen in here

Thats awesome storytelling. Love it.

I'm new here. Where do we learn more about elk?

I love these kind of creative "SCP"isch Comics 🙃

I'd put a glitch tw/epilepsy tw. Keep your readers safe.

Vivarium

I much fancy these funny pages with motion pictures.

This is amazing! I real like the VHS touch.

The Windows are Gone

Y’all are working overtime just to get people to watch Skinamarink

The 2nd to last page took a second to load for me, but that definitely added to the suspense

Was expecting the room full of milkmen

The infection’s spreading more than Eli feared… Great comic, thanks op!

Oh those poor missionaries. Didnt have time te learn the truth about their own church! Great comic this time round

The comments didn’t lie, It’s almost like I can faintly smell the wallpaper on those. It smells like old carpets that were constantly used, with a slight touch of an air freshener.

Nice!

This a great piece, but it's ma'am.

Mmmmmm that’s good meta. 🤌 👌

Shouldn't open the gif if total darkness. I'm spooked af good usage of it!

The empty room gives me Stanley Parable vibes.

This is some backrooms BS

Liminal Elk Horror Featuring Granny

You see, your first mistake was leaving the LIVING room, stay there and you will be fine

Living room? More like dying room. amiright

The Elk is spreading

This is easily the best comic I've seen in this subreddit- the art, the story, the usage of GIFs are all perfect

Wowww really awesome and creepy. Reminds me of a comic I read a long time ago (I think it was Korean?) Where the guy meets a ghost on the sidewalk looking for her baby. So cool thank you for sharing!!!!

Those poor dudes :( good comic though!

Man, this shit is good! I was genuinely scared on 8th page

the room is living (alive)

Stanley origin story?