# Nightmarishly gruesome graphic novel: "Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-books-manga\ **Created:** [March 4, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114 "2025-03-04T16:13:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/1 "2025-03-04T16:13:45Z")
(note: tag says manga which it isn’t although that’s the closest category I could find) I stumbled across this on YouTube where it’s been uploaded with narration. I took a look and **Ho Lee Phuk!** Cute little humanimals being hideously butchered by serial killers. Not for the easily triggered. Granted it’s clever in both story and execution (no pun intended); but it’s the sort of novel that makes you wonder if it got the author investigated by the police. One of the YouTube comments claimed that they’d seen this for sale in the children’s comics section of a store. 😱 ETA: Patrick Horvath IDW Publishing 2017 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/2 "2025-03-04T16:20:59Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > One of the YouTube comments claimed that they’d seen this for sale in the children’s comics section of a store. 😱 I shared a post about the fortieth anniversary of the animated film Orrin- Legend Of The Starchaser. I was stunned to see that the poster advertised it as ‘for the entire family’. I do not remember any sex or nudity in the movie. Some of the film is too frightening for kids. There is a lot of graphic violence. It is very much not a film for the entire family. It is a good movie though. I saw it in the theater. I rented it at an independent video store. The owner had placed in the children’s section. I advised him that it did not belong there. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/3 "2025-03-04T16:28:15Z")
Wiki gives the title as “Starchaser: The Legend of Orin” ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/4 "2025-03-04T16:35:48Z")
D’oh! You are correct. My excuse is that I do not own a copy of the movie and have not watched it in several decades. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/5 "2025-03-04T18:32:26Z")
I’ve browsed through the comic without reading it, and I wouldn’t rate it as even close to “nightmarishly gruesome”. It is actually pretty mild as horror comics/manga go. I think your perception is being distorted by the “but it’s cute animals!” factor. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/6 "2025-03-04T20:03:31Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > One of the YouTube comments claimed that they’d seen this for sale in the children’s comics section of a store. 😱 Some adorable little children like dark things. ---
**Author:** ![Cmyers1980](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyers1980/32/11814_2.png) [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/7 "2025-03-05T18:18:07Z")
It’s a great comic. It’s like Dexter combined with a children’s storybook. The sequel is being released soon. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/8 "2025-03-05T18:27:14Z")
It seems very like Dexer: [![](https://i.imgur.com/S38g7Jp.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/S38g7Jp.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/9 "2025-10-12T03:58:19Z")
2025 Harvey winner. > **[Anime News, Top Stories & In-Depth Anime Insights - Crunchyroll News](https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2025/10/11/witch-hat-atelier-wins-harvey-award-for-best-manga)** > > Stay on top of anime news and updates straight out of Japan with Crunchyroll News. From breaking stories to evergreen content, get all your anime and manga news updates in one place. You heard it here first! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/10 "2025-10-12T04:09:09Z")
And the sequel, “Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite Of Spring” hits just as hard, if not harder. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/11 "2025-10-12T09:29:30Z")
There’s also a single-issue prequel, _Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees: Präludium_ ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/12 "2025-10-12T09:45:18Z")
Must admit, I hadn’t twigged that the first volume was supposed to be set in the 80s, although looking at it again the cars certainly fit that timing, but were cordless tools a thing in the 80s? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/13 "2025-10-12T10:06:08Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > but were cordless tools a thing in the 80s? Some, just barely, in the later 1980s, but they used Ni-Cad batteries and weren’t especially practical until Lithium-ion battery versions were developed in the late 1990s, [first by Dremel](https://www.woodworkersjournal.com/dremel-rotary-tools-razors-edge-cutting-edge/#:~:text=In%201988%2C%20Dremel%20developed%20the%20first%20cordless,tool%20company%20to%20develop%20a%20Lithium%2Dion%20battery). (Although the one in the page I posted was obviously a Makita.) So not quite period-accurate. (Also, in the 1980s the world wasn’t populated by various species of anthropomorphic animals.) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nightmarishly-gruesome-graphic-novel-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees/1015114/14 "2025-10-12T10:19:01Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Some, just barely, in the later 1980s, That’s what I thought. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > (Also, in the 1980s the world wasn’t populated by various species of anthropomorphic animals.) No shit 🙄