That goddamn Garfield comic. While smiling, Garfield looks at the reader and says "The world is burning. Run."
Frame: There’s something bizarrely terrifying about the frames of a webcomic, which are typically perceived as not actually existing in-universe, growing tendrils inward to tear apart the inhabitant of the comic. The fact that the comic's alt text is nothing butVisible Silenceespecially doesn't help matters.
The aptly-named #647: "Scary", in which a child uses to beat his uncle's ghost story.note Although to some, this might be closer to Tear Jerker than being scary.
"Friends." It may seem like a typical, kind of sad comic about dating, until the line "Bit by bit, I'll make you depend on me."
This is a true nightmare depending on your own views on morality, culture and progress. It illustrates a nightmare many parents have now: you can't know (and by extension, control) what your kids will find on the internet and when. Your child may "learn" some grown-up stuff online and try it out not knowing what they're really doing.
Fish. A discussion about the Fermi Paradox abruptly shifts gears, and paints a whole different perspective on our place in the universe:
Imagine you're a scuba diver looking at the ocean floor. You know there's a fish there, but you can't see it. Why?
Keyboard Mash. Imagine thinking you're chatting with a friend, unaware that something has taken their place.
Voice. I can only control my voice once every six years, And I Must Scream. What makes it worse is that the mouseover text for this strip is very similar to the one from "Keyboard Mash". Could those giant spiders be spreading?
"Hurricane Names" takes place in a scenario where so many hurricanes happen in a single season that the meteorologists exhaust both the yearly list of standard names and the Greek letter backups, resulting in them deciding to name storms with random dictionary words instead. The alt text makes things worse, as they run out of words in the Oxford English Dictionary (implying that hundreds of thousands of hurricanes have formed) and start numbering them, only to be foiled by hurricanes somehow appearing on every possible point on the Earth's surface and making it impossible to assign numbers to all of them. At this point, the meteorologists give up and decide to name all of the hurricanes "Steve".
The first one is the implication that despite all the existing overwhelming evidence, non-scientific arguments AGAINST the theories of man-made global warming are proliferating and causing severe obstacles to efforts towards solving the problem.
And the second one, which makes the first a true nightmare for anyone under 60, is that while it took over 11000 years for the average temperature to rise 4 degrees and reach 0°C, it'll take humanity a little less than a century to achieve the same effect and get to 4°C.
What is worse is that unlike previous entries on this list, this is real, and according to projections that "Cretaceous hothouse" may be a reality if the current path continues.