What has been the saddest scene in your comic so far?

[A-weird-girler]

It also counts with comics you've read. What is the most tear-jerking scene you have drawn or read? What made it sad? Please link or describe below. I won't say my saddest because it hasn't come yet but it will soon so I want to see sad things to know how they go. Thanks.

[jpnakashima]

For now, the saddest to me was this whole moment:

The context is that Nicollas, Maxiboy's alter ego, just found out the girl he has a crush on clearly likes other person. But that is just a catalyst, kind of.
Because the way I tried to portray him, Nick is kind of an average kid when not Maxiboy. He's not cool, he's not bullied. He's just there. He has one friend... three if you count his mother and an elephant. So he's kind of lonely when he's not Maxiboy, loved by all.
This is also the first time I say that Nicollas' father went away. His mom raises him by herself. I don't know if I handled the ''reveal'' well, but it's kind of what this scene is about. I guess. It's kind of sad.

From what I read... There's so many, but the last I've seen.
I've been rereading Scalped, this awesome Vertigo western/noir/crime drama series in an Indian reservation, and there's this really heartbreaking scene in an earlier arc, ''Dead Mothers'', in which the MC has a flashback of when he was a kid and his mother comes back with an arrow head for his collection, trying to connect with him, and he's really rude with her, he can't give her the time of the day, he has better things to do, to dream of getting the fuck away from the res.

I think it's such a quiet, sad moment. This unspoken, devastating distance between a mother and a son who wants nothing to do with her. It's even more sad because, as the arc name implies, his mother has just been murdered, so he'll never make it up, it's lost forever, just one more regret.

[Zyephen]

Maybe this one? I have too many =_=

Chaotic Nation | Tapas

[spadesart]

judging by audience reaction it was when cog was ready to let herself die to avoid the risk of killing everyone if she switched to a new body

SPIRE | Tapas

[rmdooley]

It certainly is not an upbeat scene in Legio Arcana when Nolan shoots Maya

[Kamikaze]

We've had a couple sad moments in my comic but currently, the one that's gotten most people sadfacing is a small one shot we did for the holiday Tapas collaboration. The idea was the Tapas mascot was running letters around to people in different comics. So we took this idea and had the father of our main character writing a letter to his missing wife. The last panel packs a bit of a gut punch...

Here's a few pages from it:

You can read the full thing here ->

Kamikaze :: A Lumenox Letter | Tapas

[jpnakashima]

Man, not really a comic but I just remembered: you guys already watched this?

So sad.
There's also an Ultimate X-Men issue by Briand Michael Bendis in which there's this kid who awakens his mutant powers and said powers are: he kills every living thing around him, killing entire blocks of people. The issue is basically just him and Wolverine in a cave. Logan went to find him, like X-Men do, but the reality slowly sinks in: he's not there to recruit him to the special school.

@rmdooley Even out of context this is really strong stuff. I love these shots where you zoom out and there's only the sound, pretty well done.

[A-weird-girler]

NOOOOOOOO

[TheFalseVyper]

My comic is basically a tragedy. The first scenes I show in the prologue is my character, Viper, losing her parents and explaining that she was tortured throughout most of her childhood. Which sucks, but I wouldn't say that it's all that sad because there really is no bond between my character and the readers at this point.

So I would say the saddest thing to happen so far is the death of this mother and her son after Viper saves them.

Those Called Wolf | Tapas

[SynCypher]

This is one of the heavier scenes I've read from Bicycle Boy.

Now, the reason I'm posting the link itself is because I haven't talked to Jack about reposting his artwork somewhere else so, the link will have to suffice. However, this scene is very heavy and the main character, Poet, has been through an ordeal at this point and is completely clueless as to why it's happening. He sort of woke up into it. The entire comic is beautiful both in writing and in artwork so I always recommend a read.

In terms of one I've drawn, there is a scene that I had to do that made me sad the whole way through and it was this one right here:

I'd actually had a bunch of dialogue that was supposed to go on this page but, when I finished, I felt the expressions themselves did the talking so, I nixed the script. I'd describe the context but, that spoils important things lol.

[AmysGames]

Saddest thing so far in Aiiro No Kunoichi, hm... maybe Sanori's falling out with her father? Not a whole lot of sad stuff has happened yet, lol.

Aiiro No Kunoichi :: Chapter 1 - Page 35 | Tapas

But for the saddest thing in any of my comics, uhhh... I'm gonna go with this one.

Ceresa's Backstory :: Page 27 | Tapas

[Evan]

My main comic is comedy based, so this is the closest to sad it gets:

Penciled :: Hands | Tapas

As for my Inktober oneshot, this panel it probably the saddest especially with the music:

Penned :: Day 28: Alt+227 Alt+239 Alt+227 | Tapas

It's missing a lot of context, so I'd recommend reading it from the start. It's short and simple, but also sweet.

Penned :: Day 1: Blue Pens | Tapas

[arushiangelica]

Well my comic is called Existentialist Crisis so to an extent everything is sad, but the saddest is probably Fire & Liars: Bloody Tears.

Existentialist Crisis :: Fire & Liars: Bloody Tears | Tapas

[ryoko]

Drawing this made me feel very guilty putting the character that means the most to me through something so awful. I think for my readers, who reacted pretty strongly in the comments, not knowing if the character was going to live or die was sad. If you're putting together very sad scene, the more attached your audience is your characters, the more powerful it becomes.

[Vanesalisa]

give me a month I'm still working on chapter three and the saddest moment would on 5, 7 and 8 chapters

[dawgofdawgness]

That scene gets me all the time!

[ericsalinas149]

I do a humorous comic strip, but I like to switch it up from time to time. I wouldn't call this 'sa, but more 'bittersweet' or something. When it comes to drama, I don't try to 'force' a reader's reaction. I just present it simply, and let the reader's gauge themselves who the comic makes them feel.

[ericsalinas149]

An other one. I made this comic from a sad poem about personal depression on Youtube so I used a line from that poem. I like the comic, but it wasn't a favorite among readers.

[eleoza]

Character backstories are often sad :3

[A-weird-girler]

aight now I'm very curious as to what homeboy is gonna do