Zerns Sickest Comics File -

Approved for Sickest File, but only between 3–4 AM. Do not read aloud. Do not show to anyone who still believes in punchlines. If the dog starts whispering again, mail the file to the dead letter office in Yuma.

A single-panel splash, page 5. A clown saws a woman in half on stage. Her torso floats upward, trailing viscera shaped like calliope pipes. The audience is drawn in exact, soulless corporate-art style — smiling, clapping, sipping soda. The clown’s eyes are photographs of real eyes, glued on. Zerns Sickest Comics File

“CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION.”

Found in a crawlspace beneath a defunct “Funny Bone” franchise (Cleveland, 1999). Wrapped in butcher paper. No publisher, no date. Approved for Sickest File, but only between 3–4 AM