Don’t just take anything-By:Dark Box





















This is a short, pastel-colored horror comic with a deliberately cute art style that makes the twist even more unsettling.
It follows two little girls who live in the same apartment building. One of them (the one with the pink bow) finds an old, broken doll in the trash and brings it home. She loves it immediately, brushes its hair, hugs it, and treats it like her precious baby. At night she sleeps peacefully with the doll tucked under her arm.
Unbeknownst to her, the doll is actually the bound spirit of a child who was sacrificed by a witch many years ago so her restless essence would be trapped inside the doll forever. The longer the doll stays with its new “owner,” the stronger the trapped spirit becomes.
Slowly the doll starts moving on its own. It crawls across the ceiling at night, watches the girl sleep, and begins tormenting her. The once-sweet child becomes terrified, but her older sister (or mother, depending on interpretation) refuses to believe her and keeps forcing her to keep the doll, thinking it’s just an imaginary friend phase.
Eventually the spirit fully awakens. The doll’s head cracks open, revealing a grotesque, screaming face underneath the cute porcelain. It possesses or completely overpowers the girl who owned it. In the final pages we see the “new” girl happily playing with her little sister again, except now she has the same vacant doll-like eyes and cracked smile. The last panel shows the original girl’s broken body hidden under the bed or in the trash, replaced forever.
The closing newspaper clipping confirms the backstory: a witch once sacrificed her own daughter to create an eternal plaything, dooming the child’s spirit to possess whoever bonds with the doll next. The cycle simply continues with a new family.
The horror comes from the contrast between the innocent, childish artwork and the quiet, unstoppable replacement that no one else ever notices until it’s too late.