The Ring's Best Trope Gets A Hilarious Twist In Webcomic
In the last two decades, few horror movies have left an impact like The Ring, and an online comic is giving the film's best trope a hilarious twist. The concept of a cursed videotape is scary on its own, but when you throw in a creepy ghost girl known as Sadako, or Samara depending on the version seen, it becomes one of the scariest horror stories ever told in film. The American remake even saw the rise of the J-Horror remake craze during the 2000s where other Onryō, the type of spirits in these stories, found a bigger audience. Now, there's an adorable webcomic named Erma that's been around for quite some time now, and it takes what worked best about the movie and translates it in a hilarious way.
Erma is a series by Brandon Santiago that follows a girl named Erma, who is a reinterpretation of an Onryō. She has long black hair that covers her eyes and wears a white dress. She's able to bend the world around her at her will with psychic abilities. She can also transport herself through TVs and use her hair as an extension of herself. She basically encapsulates what people understand about this kind of spirit. So what makes her so different?
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The big twist with Erma is that she's just an average girl in a suburban setting. The comics take inspiration from classic comic strips like Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts to see a girl like this growing up in the American suburbs, and it can be absolutely hilarious. From dealing with babysitters by trying to scare them to pulling pranks on some of the boys in her school, Erma is depicted as any other elementary-school-aged child...with a supernatural twist. The best part about this though is that the character herself is adorable. Her
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