10 Comic Books Where Evil Won

10. Memetic

From Batman writer James Tynion IV and artists Erik Donovan and Adam Guzowski comes Memetic, a Boom! Studios comic replete with all the apocalyptic horror you could ever hope for.

The comic itself focuses on a number of characters but in particular a queer college student called Aaron, who's colourblind and has a hearing impairment.

Aaron's disability is what makes him immune to a new meme taking the world by storm called the Good Times Sloth, which, when viewed, makes those who see it experience intense sensations of joy. However, it soon transpires that anyone who views the meme begins to bleed from their eyes and scream uncontrollably, losing all control and becoming violent against all those who aren't also screaming their lungs out.

The world descends into chaos, and while trying to find a cure for those who witnessed the meme Aaron's boyfriend Ryan reveals that he himself had seen it, which leads him to take his own life by jumping off a balcony. Things only get worse from there, with the Screamers evolving to transmit the meme's virus without any visuals necessary, which leads to the comic's other protagonists - Marcus, Peter and Meredith - all becoming infected, while all the other Screamers merge to form giant human-meat-towers with nothing but their faces intact.

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Our heroes eventually find the creator of the meme, but any hope for a cure disappears once he kills himself, with all his other computers destroyed. Meredith decides to take her own life at this point, while Marcus transforms into a Screamer, and Aaron willingly assimilates himself into the human tower nightmare because he feels left out.

Memetic's ridiculously bleak conclusion is capped off by an alien vessel descending onto the planet, which serves as the cherry on top of the proverbial depression cake it serves up from start to end.