"Elcomics" is a collection of comics written by Ehud Lavski and drawn by Yael Nathan. While most of the comics are horror, there are a few comics of other genres.
The comics can be found here
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- Be Careful What You Wish For:
- In "The Tattoo Artist", the Starlet wants a tattoo only from the best artist, who happens to be a mysterious wandering stranger who appears in random tattoo parlors in the middle of the night and gives people the tattoo he knows they need. She gets a tattoo from him, having used her power to cut in line, and the tattoo artist gives her a beautiful tattoo... that becomes more and more a monster that will attempt to strangle her the more she acts vain.
- In "The Boy", the parents of a missing boy become so desperate for their son that they contact a witch. Their boy comes back, but there's something clearly something wrong with him, like the dead animals in his closet. But they don't care because their son is back. Then the police arrive with their real son.
- Body Horror: The titular signal in "The Signal" causes humans' bodies to warp into grotesque forms. First, it's small changes (though the panel shows what appears to be a coughed-up heart), twisted skin, rotted tongues, and then eyeballs falling out.
- Brown Note:
- The titular signal in "The Signal" is one of these, brainwashing humanity and causing them to become twisted and deformed, allowing them to be assimilated by the aliens who sent the signal.
- The titular "Midnight Radio" plays songs that the protagonist can't recognize, but insists are the most beautiful melodies she's ever heard. The radio then draws her to the middle of nowhere, where she sees a skeletal operator turn to dust and give her control of the station. She treats this as a happy ending, though if the ghosts of the previous operators in the background are any indication, it is most certainly not.
- The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: Jacob Kurzweil repeatedly and loudly insists he invented a working time machine, which everyone else, including his family, believes is just the delusional rantings of an old man. Turns out he did figure out time travel, and future generations of his family are cursed with him periodically showing up, yelling "I told you it works!", and then disappearing "back into eternity".
- Deal with the Devil: In "The Nintendo", some kids contact a Satanist teen to summon a demon so they could get Super Nintendos for Christmas. Even the demon is shocked by this. A similar-looking (perhaps the same?) demon had appeared earlier in "A Wicked Man", being summoned by an old man to kill the thugs who assaulted him, with this not being the first time it's happened.
- Everyone Has Standards: Joey's brother Lenny, who is a Satanist who deals with literal demons, both of them from "The Nintendo", was apparently horrified by the house in "Prey". The curious kids find out why.
- The Final Temptation: The Auditor in "Test" gives this to the good cop: shoot himself so his heavily flawed kind can live and maybe prove themselves good after all, or live and become an Auditor himself, leaving to see cosmic wonders beyond his wildest imagination, complete with a visual of such a planet. The cop chooses to shoot himself, being the first individual ever to pass the test.
- The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In-universe and then played straight in "Inside". A young man reads a comic book he was warned not to read, from which a demon crawls out and kills him and the comic store owner. The demon then turns its attention to the reader and starts climbing out of the panel.
- Humans Are Flawed: In "Test", a single good cop in a department of Dirty Cops has been caught by his corrupt colleagues and tossed into an interrogation room with a homeless man, who turns out to be an Auditor: a higher being sent to judge civilizations to see if they're worthy of reaching the stars. The Auditor has found humanity the worst species he's ever seen and intends on wiping them all out. The good cop, however, argues that while humans are capable of great cruelty, they're capable of great good too. The Auditor gives him a test: shoot himself so humanity can live, or let them be wiped out and become another Auditor. The good cop is tempted by the latter option, but chooses to shoot himself. The Auditor keeps him from killing himself and remarks that no member of any condemned species, not even himself, has passed that test, and remarks there may be hope for humanity yet.
- Humans Are Special: In "Test", the officer resists The Final Temptation. The Auditor is shocked, stating this test has been given to members of over 5,000 other condemned species (including himself), and all of them have chosen to let their planet be razed.
- I Love the Dead: Caleb Boxwell from "Cold Embrace" loved his wife so much, when she died, he built a secret room to keep her corpse where he would sleep beside her.
- Karmic Jackpot: The couple in "Fertile" free the fertility god the people of the farmland had imprisoned for their prosperity. The god takes away the farmland's lustrous vegetation, but rewards the couple with the children they had wanted for so long.
- Space Whale Aesop: The Starlet in "The Tattoo Artist" finds out you shouldn't be such a vain bitch, or else your tattoo will come alive and try to strangle you.
- Too Dumb to Live: In "Inside", the young man reads a comic book he was repeatedly warned to not read. When he reads it, a demon pops out. But the comic store owner is probably even more deserving of the Darwin Award by leaving a comic he knew people shouldn't read in an open view where people would inevitably get curious. He also tells the young man who wanted to read the book to "hold the fort", somehow trusting that he wouldn't give into curiosity and read the damned thing.
- Town with a Dark Secret: The farmland in "Fertile" is absolutely gorgeous in scenery and has a lot of children. This is because there's a fertility god imprisoned in a barn.
