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Childhood Crush (not horror)

🕑 Added 2025-01-30 04:11:08 +0000 UTC

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Alex

Are we ever gonna get those drawings in full resolution? 👀

CandyCane Benedict

It was Xena princess warrior for me 🙈

Feline Bimbo

Well, I hate to be a party pooper, but in most of the world the next years in the story is more horrifying than anything Adam drew. I know from experience.

Ciel Santos

lolll this was DBZ and Sailormoon for me when we were kids lol!

Samantha

I had that sleeping bag and the bedsheet set for Simba too!

Jarrod Kersey

i think i had that same sleeping bag!!

Tossumout

Now it's time to post the uncensored versions of Ryu and Cammy

Leelynn Brady

I'm glad you prefaced that it wasn't horror because I was a bit terrified at first lol

Ari

I thought you had posted another comic a couple days ago but now I can’t find it. What happened??

Angela Kimball

Side note, I fully had a sleeping bag like that.

Rachel Cannon

It was Sailor Moon for me 😆 Great comic!

Marcus Kaeso

Took me a few weeks to get around to it, but this and the subway comic are the ones that finally made me pledge. Not that I don't love your spooky stuff, but comics like these really hit home for me. <3

Vanny

Fr, when I was a kid I'd play GTA 3 just to drive Missy ((or whatever her name is)) and bring her to an open house. I remember having this feeling in my stomach everytime I'd look at her

Khara Gomes

Same but with DBZ characters 😂 Much love for this insightful childhood post, sharing this part of your life just feels so relatable to so many of us. ❤️

India Voerman

lol same but with Disney Princesses in middle school

Kyle Michel Sullivan

For me, it was 12, where I knew something was different but I couldn't \figure out what till I was in 10th grade...

Kyle Michel Sullivan

Loved this one. When I was in 8th grade back in the stone age (before home computers) I used to draw nude women for the boys at school and sell them. made enough to buy cokes and comics and stuff. But at night, I'd sketch nude men for me.

Yasemin

This is so sweet!

Jombegu

I'm in this comic in every panel it seems like. Thanks for telling your story and making some of us feel seen in the process!

Alpha100auri

Where's the uncensored? 😭

Sailorboi88

Van Damme playing Guile in the Street Fighter movie was part of may gaywakening

David O'Neal

I love how pretty much EVERY fighting game is stuffed with incredulously hot men. Ryu and Ken from Street Fighter, Daddy Kano and Jax from Mortal Kombat and God knows how many I used to play arcade mode of Dead or Alive 3 as Jan Lee just to see his ending where at some point he's just flexing before beating up a bunch of bad guys.

Angela Rose

I love that you included the retro website look.

Jeffrey

OK, *actually* not horror. I don't know why the assurance that it wasn't horror had me a little bit more on edge. Like you were just gonna be like "Surprise! It was horror the whole time!"

Sonny Ly

Ryu and those bushy eye brows just wakes something up in me

Nicole Zimbardi

I spy Chrono Trigger amongst the games! 👏🏾

Nastassja Minson

i didn't know until i was 14, but looking back at my childhood, there were definitely signs that i just didn't recognize

A Rare Bog, A Rattlin' Bog

I have never met a queer person who didn't know it from a very early age. It's just nature.

Amber Davis Art

Fantastic art as always. Truly inspiring

Ashe

I had the same reaction the first time I saw Jessica Rabbit 👀 it was like my whole world got bigger and then smaller at the same time, in a good way, though. I figured something out about myself and it felt good.

DrinkingGasoline

This is genuinely really sweet. I think this is such a common thing for kids, especially younger kids

Jackie Wu (GeckoKid)

Mine was Chun Li, and Lara Croft! Didn’t want to see those fanart either!

Laci Tower

Mine was Sailor Moon

Anna Myers

This is amazing

Mitchell Johnson

I relate to this so much! I occasionally bring your comics into my therapy sessions, because they help me to express the silent pain I felt growing up.

John M

Aww this was definitely me back in the day ! 😌

DeadlyNightShadeArt (Autumn)

😭I love this lmao

Rachel Perry

I love this one! you are so talented <3 doesn't matter if it's horror or not - if you wrote it, imma read it!!

Queer and Pleasant Banger

I dont remember if I had it or a friend- but for some reason I remember that EXACT lions king sleeping bag

inkshark

One of my favorite things about this comic is that it's still horror, but only for people i don't like :D

Dr_Amuly

I swear I had that exact lion king sleeping bag

tallasianchick

Lol me with Chun-Li

Alex

Me as a teen searching “emo boys kissing” on YT but telling myself I def didn’t like boys 😂 _________ Ok so I don’t know when exactly I had my “awakening”. I’m trans ftm, so grew up female. And after an uhm.. slightly spicy sleepover with some girlfriends, I found out I was probably bi. And it really scared me. When I started thinking I was trans at 16, I spend many years being out as a “lesbian” and did everything I could to look and be “masculine”. But I still watched and consumed so much mlm content in secret. (Fanfics, yaoi, googling “boys kissing” etc), and I felt like a perv because of it.. I had so much internalized homo- and transphobia. The thought of being trans was scary enough, but being trans AND gay/queer? That was too much. Finally came out a few years ago as trans and pan after being closeted for close to a decade. Now I’m 1 year and 8 months on T, and can soon celebrate 2 years with my boyfriend. And I’ve never been happier 💕🏳️‍⚧️

Patrick Garman

Ha! I remember a similar experience at a friend's house when he showed a group of us his dad's playboy website subscription on the old AOL dial-up. I was kind of uncomfortable with the naked ladies, but didn't really know why until I discovered Playboy online for myself a little while later....

Tiffany Franklin

Very nice! Also I had to share that I had the exact same Simba sleeping bag in the 90's. Lion King merch was prolific.

Elisabeth Elvira Alba

This was me and my friend in 8th grade circa 1998 looking at Ranma 1/2 and Tiny Toon (hahahaha) 'fanart' on her family's computer after midnight.

Joe

Replace Cammy with Psylocke and replace Ryu with Gambit or Cyclops…also Banshee in generation X and that was my childhood 😂

madscipanda

Love this. I definitely had crushes on Chun-Li and Cammy. I remember being really into Princess Leia's gold bikini from a very young age

William Holtz

chills...

rider.break97

this comic reminds me of when my friends told me about the website naruto xxx dot com and I went on and was disappointed that it was only the girls and naruto's sexy clone jutsu on the site lmaooo

Tall Dorky and Handsome

Felt

Linda Boden

You say this isn’t horror, just I see an image listed that’s blankacammy and … that’s definitely horror.

Pooja Patel

Awakening! Also I still have that same lion king sleeping bag from childhood.

Josh Johnson

Approximately how many viruses do you think those two images downloaded to that computer? Very cute, had a similar affinity / crush on the red power ranger

Hronn Holmer

awww. that is very sweet. i adore your versatility. sweet childhood and creepy horror!

Lindsey

Please take a longer break from horror. I always loved your heart warming and funny comics waaaaay in the day.

Brushfeather

Aww, part of your 🏳️‍🌈 awakening was Ryu? Loved the heck out of him as a kid. But... not like that, lol.

Helen Hammond

Same. She rocked my world at like 12

Ian Wickham

You must defeat Sheng Dong to stand a chance

Clarissa Frattini

This was really sweet

Caroline Lutz

Not you casually dropping the news about finishing your book 😍😍😍 CANNOT WAIT Apart from that, loved this comic! Precious (and a bit weird too, in the way we used to be weird as preteens 😂), very well done, love it!

Mary Margaret Mumich

This is precious

Pedro Parente

💕💕💕💕 i had a similar experience.

Marco Wemekamp

Recognizable! Uncensored version soon? Hahahaha

Chad Evett

This…feels familiar.

Yelly

I'm bi, with a preference to women. As a kid, i told my mother i had a crush on Android 17 from DBZ. That was fine. Told her I felt the same about Android 18. Nope, I just admired her. That felt weird to me. I couldn't even look at her on the screen anymore. I'm autistic, and that just made it so difficult to understand. Raised Catholic, being gay was a sin. But I liked both. I didn't know bisexuality was a thing until my teens, but I was so far in the closet by that point Mr Tumnus was even miffed at me. I didn't realise things until I was in my 20's, but thought 'I only have physical crushes on women'. I'd never really came across women who were my 'type'. They were written for men, by men. Then last year (I'm 32) I played Baldur's Gate 3, amd came across Karlach. That changed...a lot. I'd never crushed on a character so hard. My spouse (AMAB) came out as non binary. It all finally make sense now...even if it's a little later on in life.

Charlotte Waubke

I guess to not actually sexualize the childhood experience for adults, you know? Like, of course it is about sexuality, but in the childs world, so even though maybe relatable as a memory for some, it is not our world anymore

Owen Blacker

I remember seeing you mention the Geocities design on Bluesky and that is just perfect. Love this story

Adam Primaeros

Tfw when you're a "blanka.jpg" boy...

D. Alfonso

Hah, we had that exact bedspread (the shapes one). Lovely comic. 💗

Chris Robot

very relatable.

Tutimon

Cute. Loved it 🥰

Tiesha Marie

Cue me and Jessica Rabbit 🐰

MitchellTF

Aw. That's so sweet and cute and I hope you have your sexuality all figured out now!

Porgatine

I love this!! You have such a way of capturing nostalgic vibes and making it feel so cozy. This story was very heartwarming 🩷🩷 also super excited for a new book!!!!

Zesty Conversation

The je ne sais quoi of this one…I grew up with websites like these myself &, oddly enough, I was just talking about the awkwardness of figuring out sexuality as a kid/teen & how much I value media that portrays that journey authentically. Good stuff, Adam. Good stuff.

Rob V

I am fairly certain that my sister had that simba sleeping bag and it is still some where in my parents' house

Kelly Pickard

Thank you so much for sharing. I've enjoyed your work for years (even when the spooky stuff gives me the willies, ha ha), but this was uniquely heartwarming.

Charlie B

Also: the 90s duvet sheet 🥹🔥👌

Eric Setzke

HA! Yeah! I Kept all mine in a folder. My favorite one was some fanart of Samus Aran sitting down with a cup of coffee. Wasn't even like, revealing or anything. Would be neat to find that artwork again.

Charlie B

This is so cool, would love to see more comics like this 🥰

Srczl

amazing

Gwen Smit

Man, I remember being allowed as a kid to go download and print out coloring pages online and it taking aaaaages when I just wanted to color. Ah, nostalgia.

Ari

Curious why you didn’t actually show the NSFW images?

Anni Vehviläinen

I just love stories like these! 🩵

kwadamson

I want more like this ☺️🥲

mungbean

I had that doona cover on my bed in the 90s in Australia!!! Love this.

iAmDirtyChai

It's the Simba sleeping bag for me 🔥🔥🔥

Ana-Rosa Cruz

This one. 💜

Mike Stevens

It involved a lot more planning than today's sessions 😂

Carly

Oooooooo new book 👀👀

Michael Senkow

Mine were "and he magically grew muscular" stories. Then one day his hung top buddy showed up.

Avatar Juan

Aw yes, the great bi awakening. for me it was Full Metal Alchemist when Bradley wore that tight black shirt with the suspenders.

Erica

This was great. It made me miss 1996

Green

I absolutely had a binder of random print-ups of my favorite various characters and pics

Rita Booke

😍😭

Jordan

This is great! Hope to see more of these (along with more spooky stuff)!

UpstandingGoose

Simba knows

Roxanna

People used to just buy them, although watching the same ones probably gets boring

Shalini S

omg iconic!! love the spooky stuff but this is great

Ben Bozovich

That was amazing!! And relatable! :-)

Solomon Eversole

This is so marvelous!

Roxanna

Awwwwwwww 😭💗

Jake Spooky

you're gona show us those illustrations, right? ;)

Jennifer J Hutchins

Never played video games, but I had the same experience watching Zena Warrior Princess.

Grady McCoy

This is so sweet and relatable.

Mark H Brady

Enduring the sound of robots screaming in order to dial in.

holyhonedge

Jesus fuck that's relatable

Autumn Schuster

This is sweet

Jenea Ylinen Fredrickson

"Three full minutes..." 💀 I'm having flashbacks to old flash cartoons. 🤣

Grendel456

The good old days of fan art like this. DBZ was my go to

Anna Nellis

core memory unlocked

Tony Choi

Oh something cannon spiked in you alright (my main was Sakura, but my heart always went out for Vega)

Eric Setzke

"It took three full minutes for that image to load", ah man, that takes me back. We'd look up basic pics from DBZ (not even anything racy) and print them. For some reason. We just had them now. I guess so we didn't have to wait for them to load again. I remember I downloaded the trailer to Chrono Cross and had to leave the computer on overnight.

Ireland Vanessa

Same. With Chun Li.

Desi

This reminds me of how my Bi awakening were these cute stickers of girls with butterfly wings I would buy from the grocery store! I was so crazy about collecting them but... Felt weird about liking them so much? I ended up hiding them and trying my best not to think about it again until I was in my 20s 😅