Broodhollow

[Loreweaver15]

Fans of eldritch horror, enter here (broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com).

Broodhollow is a horror webcomic about an encyclopedia salesman moving to a small town where everything seems just a little bit off. Off? I'm sorry, I haven't seen anything off today. We don't have things that are off in Broodhollow!

[Reverent-One]

Broodhollow is great. I've been a fan of Kris Straub's work for a while now, but Broodhollow is his best work yet.

[Feddlefew]

I just came here to post a thread for Broodhollow. Good thing I checked!

Anyway, here's my guess as to what one of the big secrets might be:

Wadsworth didn't exist until sometime around six months ago.

There is a recursing theme of storytelling as a means of recording history, and someone pointed out in the comment thread for one of the earlier chapter 2 comics that no one seemed to remember Mr. Bellweather's death until after Iris wrote it down.

All of those detailed genealogy charts that the elder Zane made created Wadsworth. Maybe there's been more than one iteration of him that's gone to Broodhollow, and our Wadsworth is the first one to not be swiftly killed by one of the town's abominations.

This means that Wadsworth isn't hallucinating so much as he exists on the same level as the monsters do- he's a story. A carefully planned, well executed story brought to life by an eldrich location, but still unable to tell the difference between what's real and not because, for him, the distinction is negligible.


Edit: Typos, so many typos...

[Loreweaver15]

I just came here to post a thread for Broodhollow. Good thing I checked!

Anyway, here's my guess as to what one of the big secrets might be:

Wadsworth didn't exist until sometime around six months ago.

There is a recursing theme of storytelling as a means of recording history, and someone pointed out in the comment thread for one of the earlier chapter 2 comics that no one seemed to remember Mr. Bellweather's death until after Iris wrote it down.

All of those detailed genealogy charts that the elder Zane made created Wadsworth. Maybe there's been more than one iteration of him that's gone to Broodhollow, and our Wadsworth is the first one to not swiftly get himself killed by one of the town's abominations.

This means that Wadsworth isn't hallucinating so much as he exists on the same level as the monsters do- he's a story. A carefully planned, well executed story brought to live by an eldrich location, but still unable to tell the difference between what's real and not because, for him, the distinction is negligible.


That's--
Wow.

Welp, you blew me outta the water.

[Kislath]

Just read Book One.
So far, so fantastic!

[D_Lord]

I like it, the contarts between the art within the story makes it extra good.

[Feddlefew]

.... And it's back!

Cadavre week was amazing. I hope he collects all the little comic strips and makes a mini-anthology

[Reverent-One]

Oh Zane, you were actually looking confident there for a second. Broodhollow isn't going to allow that.

[Loreweaver15]

I love Mercy so much. Is it odd that I hope we get a little plush bat sooner or later?

[Feddlefew]

This will end well. [/sarcasm]

On the other hand, apparently he remembers things while he's sleeping. Maybe.

[D20ragon]

Wow. I just read all of broodhollow and it is excellent. Rarely have I seen a webcomic I enjoyed so much. Very well done.

[Reverent-One]

Zane's remembering things, yes! Apparently it only requires him to be feeling extreme fear to break the town's memory effects. So, you know, no biggie.

[Loreweaver15]

I'm glad he's breaking through them at all. That's been really worrying me these last couple months.

[Zaydos]

Thank you for bringing this quite enjoyable web comic to my attention.

[Loreweaver15]

Hrm.

Well, that (http://broodhollow.chainsawsuit.com/page/2014/04/28/no-peeking/)'s distressing.

[some guy]

A few day ago, Kris Straub tweeted this:

would you like to know a neat secret about @broodhollow?
followed by this:

in book 1, when zane's decisions advanced the plot, he's facing/going to the right. when he made mistakes or wrong, he's facing/going left

at least, i tried to maintain that visually. i'm sure there are exceptions

I thought it might be of interest to some readers.

[Kislath]

This is such a neat story. I wish the posting pace was faster, though.

[sum1won]

So.... Latest update? Wow.

[Kaptin Keen]

Straub has the ability to write insanely good plot lines. He really ought to write movie scripts. In other words, I'm excited to see where Broodhollow goes.

[Kislath]

I would be quite happy to see this story brought to life as a movie.

[Fralex]

I would be quite happy to see this story brought to life as a movie.

I could totally see the people behind the Coraline movie doing a really creepy stop-motion movie of this.