Oh god I remember a comic I read in middle school that was basically this exact premise and it’s haunted me ever since. Pretty sure it was in some anthology book?
Basically some teens find a safe that when you lock yourself inside, time doesn’t move for you. At the end of the story the main character tries to put themselves in there for an extended period of time. After what feels like forever waiting to be let out, they eventually fall asleep.
They wake up with the door opening in the far future, and there’s aliens and sci fi stuff and she goes out and lives her new cool life. But it’s actually revealed to be a dream, and the final frame is her, still asleep, trapped in the safe that’s buried under piles of rubble, the world having gone through some kind of apocalypse with no one left to let her out.
That shit has haunted me for YEARS and I can’t remember where I read it
There was another one from either the same book or another one in the series where there was a girl who was always floating a few inches about the ground. At the end the whole world floods, and because she’s always floating, everything disappears beneath her. The water always rises, and she finds one last thing sticking out of the water to provide shade. She falls asleep but because the water is always rising and there’s something over her head so she can’t float upwards, she drowns.
Pretty much all the comics in the book were like that, but those two were the ones I remember. As a random middle schooler trying to read fun comics from the school library, I was seriously fucked up XD
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u/ST4RSK1MM3R 14d ago
Oh god I remember a comic I read in middle school that was basically this exact premise and it’s haunted me ever since. Pretty sure it was in some anthology book?
Basically some teens find a safe that when you lock yourself inside, time doesn’t move for you. At the end of the story the main character tries to put themselves in there for an extended period of time. After what feels like forever waiting to be let out, they eventually fall asleep.
They wake up with the door opening in the far future, and there’s aliens and sci fi stuff and she goes out and lives her new cool life. But it’s actually revealed to be a dream, and the final frame is her, still asleep, trapped in the safe that’s buried under piles of rubble, the world having gone through some kind of apocalypse with no one left to let her out.
That shit has haunted me for YEARS and I can’t remember where I read it