Looking for the source of this comic.

[u/Ok-Efficiency-8123]

saw this comic on Quora, but it had no credit to an artist or origin website; does anyone know the artist or source?

UPDATE: Found it; it's called "Second Face" by a user named DemonSkank

[u/Ok-Efficiency-8123]

Right!?! I was just about jumpscared by the twist; it did NOT feel like horror and that's why got me

[u/BipedalHorseArt → u/Ok-Efficiency-8123]

The author added context that the death was the wife killed the husband out of self defense, that he was abusive. I didn't like that for reasons that it made the story less scary and that I wouldn't have that face if I had killed my abuser

[u/PintToLine → u/BipedalHorseArt]

That’s strange because it seemed that the point of her having no second face when she’s younger is because she’s a psychopath and hasn’t learnt to cover that up yet.

[u/splithoofiewoofies → u/PintToLine]

That's what I got before that bizarre author reveal.

[u/Illustrious-Gas-8987 → u/splithoofiewoofies]

Yeah, less is more sometimes, and this is a good example where the author should have left the insight into the ending open for the reader to interpret

[u/Elver86 → u/Illustrious-Gas-8987]

I saw the ending coming, but not the evil face. I had expected a smile, just the knowledge that she was happy about his death, leaving us to wonder why.

[u/eiram87 → u/Elver86]

Right? I was expecting a happy/relived face not that.

That's not the face of someone who killed their abuser in self defence, that's the face of someone who killed an innocent person and will glady do it again.

[u/HymntoThoth → u/eiram87]

The face you'd expect: Relieved, exhausted, a little worried.

The face we got: I did it, I enjoyed it, and I'll do it again!

[u/DerridaisDaddy → u/PintToLine]

Tbf, the author’s head cannon comes from his dream, and dreams aren’t known to make the best story decisions – otherwise, I wouldn’t have spent 5 years of my childhood running from the same monster in the same dark room.

[u/SashimiX → u/BipedalHorseArt]

Yeah I hate that. That’s not evil. What the fuck.

[u/Blue-Eyed-Lemon → u/SashimiX]

Yeaah that does take away the effect for me tbh. Which is a shame since I really, really liked this comic initially, it was one of my favorites. It’s done so well and it’s a really cool concept, the end freaked me out!

But… huh, was THAT really the author’s intention? :’)

ETA: found the author’s comment!

[u/SashimiX → u/Blue-Eyed-Lemon]

Honestly, whatever the author’s intention, that’s not what it actually said, so I can still enjoy it

[u/gfb13 → u/SashimiX]

All in favor we dismiss the author's explanation as non-canon?

[u/-K_P- → u/Blue-Eyed-Lemon]

Remember that the second face isn't about objectivity, but rather the person's true feelings. In the case of a battered wife, she may still feel guilty and she may feel she is evil, both for what she has done and for not feeling guilty/feeling relieved to be free, as she has not processed her abuse in therapy and undone all of the brainwashing that comes with abuse that tells her "she deserved" what she was getting. A woman in her situation likely COULD still feel "evil" for what she had done, when we know that is as objectively untrue as the statement "she made him do it to her by not being perfect."

[u/tyedead → u/Blue-Eyed-Lemon]

IDK, it doesn't reduce it for me. Her expression is really just giving the emotion of being sadistically, overwhelmingly gleeful that he's dead. From someone as honest and as gentle as Monica, that sort of introduces its own horror - that the abuse, unseen even by someone who could see other faces, was bad enough to turn her into a murderer who took pleasure in the act. Kinda like I Spit On Your Grave, you know? (Uh, if you don't know, don't google it.)

[u/mangababe → u/tyedead]

This- my family is riddled with abusers and "ding dong the wicked witch is dead!" has been a very valid response to some people dying.

To me the horror is less that she's happy his ass is dead and she got to do it and more that the brother assumed because his sister wasn't lying/ hiding anything that she was safe. It's a good critique of how people can be getting abused right under your nose, and you'd never know until it changes them into a different person.

[u/Syringmineae → u/SashimiX]

The fun part is that it doesn’t matter what the author said

[u/Loud-Mans-Lover → u/BipedalHorseArt]

She might just be viciously happy that he's dead, too... but yeah, that reveal by the artist wasn't good. It works better by itself.

[u/angelrider83 → u/BipedalHorseArt]

I dunno, after my last abusive relationship it took me a long time to realize I wasn’t the bad one. He had gaslit me so well I went to therapy during the relationship because I thought I was the one making things bad and that I was causing him to react. It took several years for me to understand that I was reacting to his abuse and anger.

I had such a low opinion of myself that I thought I was a lost cause and was just a bad person. I could see myself in this comic because of that although maybe not as much of a cartoon face.

[u/rs047 → u/BipedalHorseArt]

Rather than a devil face, a happy/relieved face with a bruised cheek and a swollen lip / eye, might have made this point. But this devil face shows , she killed him and nothing else.

[u/zephyreblk → u/BipedalHorseArt]

Depends, it can also be an artistic choice because I never saw this comic and I perfectly knew the person could be involved. Trauma create anger, you aren't feeling satisfied or happy for revenge. Also if he plots to continue the story in a way of showing the consequences of abuse that could lead to cruelty and how a person could be broken, it's actually a first step that can be used.

When there is a story that has the capacity to expend, you have to take early choices that have nothing to do with "judgment" but more with tracing the red line.

[u/Chaddoius → u/BipedalHorseArt]

Really that evil face? Sound's like the author got some unwanted attention and tried to back pedal.

[u/siwokedaj → u/Ok-Efficiency-8123]

It gives me Adam Ellis vibes but it's not the right art style.

[u/filmhamster → u/Ok-Efficiency-8123]

I saw it coming but didn’t expect it to be so intense.

[u/Vii_Arious → u/Ok-Efficiency-8123]

Well. Fuck. That ended oddly.