Chapter 21, Page 40
The following is an excerpt from the book, A Complete Guide To Urban Legends, by Ivor Branek.
An entire sub-category can be devoted to urban legends involving schools. Some center around school restrooms, a place where students are usually alone or few in number—and isolation tends to be an essential ingredient in many of these stories.
A popular restroom-based legend is the infamous Demon in the Drain. It is said that if a student spends too long sitting on the toilet, a ghostly hand will reach up and pull them down into the bowl. A lurid variation suggests the hand will drag the unfortunate victim straight to the “bowels of Hell”. The danger is not limited to just toilets—spending too long at the sink can have equally dire consequences, with a spectral hand springing forth from the drain, seizing the student, and pulling them head first to their demise. How a human body can be squeezed through the plumbing is best left to one’s morbid imagination.
In the case of the Bleeding Woman, boys can take a sigh of relief. Female students should be cautious, though, since this bloody phantom only visits the girls’ restroom. To test out this urban legend, all one needs to do is put on red lipstick, kiss the restroom mirror and, after leaving a lip print on the glass, recite this rhyme:
With this kiss I summon,
The face of the Bleeding Woman
If the ritual is successful, the Bleeding Woman’s ghastly visage will appear in the mirror. Unfortunately, a horrific death awaits any who encounter her. Sometimes called Hemora or Annie Mia (colorful plays on the words hemorrhage and anemia), the Bleeding Woman is a nude specter completely drenched in blood and possessing lifeless white eyes. Gazing upon this entity results in the victim bleeding from every orifice until dead—a grisly end even by urban legend standards.
The Demon in the Drain and the Bleeding Woman may be thinly-veiled cautionary tales against loitering in the restroom and defacing mirrors, but each have become increasingly popular and oft-repeated among students over the years.
The most chilling school-centric urban legend is not relegated to the restroom, however. Few legends can compare to that of Melpo Thalia and, much like the Bleeding Woman, a rhyme is connected to this tale, but one with a far more terrifying history.
Danger Zone One. Story by Midnight. Art by Salaiix.
I recently found this comic over the summer and finally caught up with the current chapter last week. I’m loving the story, characters and color pages.
Maybe I’m missing something. This is easily one of the better webcomics out there and I see so few comments (aside from the one guy writing nearly nonsensical comments every page). It’s a damn curious thing.
If you go on webtoons, though, the amount of panels DZO puts out in a *month* is equal to what Webtoons originals puts out in a *week*. And that’s considering the color pages. The monochrome would be seen as substandard quality.
Granted, DZO is obv. racier than Webtoons which basically have a PG-13 cap, while DZO is obv. Steam equivalent of M+, but the glacial pace of content release compared to webcomics, along with a lack of good hosting alternatives means FAR fewer readers.
I think two pages a week is common for many non-webtoon webcomics tho.
Biggest difference with webtoons is quantity over quality. Yeah they churn out content quick but the art and writing suffer for it. I’ve seen some decent webtoons go down in flames fast because of creator burnout. I read a couple that got me hooked but I never read one that look as professional as DZO. Hell most webtoon artists barely even draw backgrounds to save time XD
The art is often fine, derivative character designs aside.
Good writing is certainly an issue but the bottleneck is art IMO, because it simply takes a while to do. Creator burnout may also be an issue.
But for non-webtoon comics, a lack of centralized hosting platform coupled with lower quantity means far less engagement IMO.
Agreed, There are occasional comments here, but not as many as some other comics. There’s some additional comments that post on Patreon instead of here, but not a lot. The comic does have a pretty good following though.
Oh, for the love of GOD, Midnight, Salaiix! You’re really KILLING US with your beautiful artwork and story arcs over here! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!! Keep up the good work! By the way, that rhyme that was mentioned in the middle frame? Did you take inspiration from the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise or something?
Oooh!!
COMPLETELY visible _NUDE_ women (with UNOBSTRUCTED view of nipples & areola [and very suggestively puffy ones at that], along with LIKEWISE unobstructed view of LABIA)!!
《drool》
Looking back at the previous page, it appears that “cum·ly” ones in this shower scene are _NOT_ teachers (so perhaps they should be referred to as “girls”).
As sexily shapely as the ones in this shower scene are, _NONE_ of them have Reenaʾs BEAUTIFUL eye·color. (♡_♡)
That guide to urban legends entry is one of the things that sets this webcomic apart from so many others. The lore building’s remarkable. If people aren’t reading those they’re missing out big time.
And man, the art on this page is pure eye candy at its finest.