“Mama’s Plane”
This is a famous dark/horror webcomic strip (often called “Mama’s Plane” or “The Airplane Drawing”) by Korean horror artist known as “Hwan”, circulating online for years as a short psychological horror story. It’s a classic example of a “predictive” or “prophetic” child horror trope with a tragic twist.
Here is the story panel by panel:
1–3. A little boy proudly shows his mother a drawing he made: two airplanes crashing into each other, with a little stick figure falling and the word “MAMA” written next to it. The mother is initially shocked and angry (“What is this?! Why would you draw something so violent?”).
4–5. She forces him to sit down and draw something “normal.” The boy obediently draws a nice, happy family picture. The mother is relieved and thinks she has corrected his disturbing behavior.
6–8. That night, the mother and father are sleeping peacefully. The boy quietly wakes up, stands in the doorway smiling creepily at his sleeping parents.
9–10. The mother suddenly wakes up screaming in absolute terror while clutching her face. In the next panel she is literally disintegrating into black ash/smoke, as if burning from the inside.
11. The TV in the background shows breaking news: “AIRLINE CRASH” with the exact same scene the boy drew earlier—two planes colliding.
12. Flashback: The boy’s original drawing was not a fantasy of violence—he had a psychic premonition of his mother’s death in a real plane crash that was going to happen the next day (presumably she was booked on one of the flights). When she forced him to draw a “happy” picture instead, she unknowingly overwrote or suppressed his attempt to warn her, sealing her fate.
13. Final panel: a movie theater screen says “-END-” while an audience of shadowy figures with glowing eyes (implying ghosts/spirits) watches in silence. This suggests the entire comic is a “film” being watched by the dead, or that the reader has just witnessed a tragic ghost story.
Core horror element
The child wasn’t being morbid—he was desperately trying to warn his mother about her imminent death, but she misinterpreted it as misbehavior and shut him down. Her own refusal to listen literally caused (or allowed) her death. The boy’s creepy smile at the end implies he now knows she’s gone forever and perhaps resents her for not understanding.
It’s a very bleak little story about miscommunication, parental failure to listen to children, and inevitable fate. One of the most famous Korean horror comics on the internet.
