Out of all of the members of The Addams Family, Wednesday Addams is the most sinister. She regularly concocts various methods of tormenting her family; especially, her little brother Pugsley. Since the dawn of the 1960s TV series The Addams Family, the list of the darkest things Wednesday has ever done seems endless. But her most torturous acts come from a newer comic called Addams Family: The Bodies Issue.
Although each variation of the original TV series The Addams Family is a little divergent from the next, each rendition still maintains the macabre mood – a gloomy setting filled with obnoxiously deranged characters that have a twisted sense of humor. And although every character including Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Pugsley, Lurch, Grandmama, Thing, and Cousin Itt have all done terrible things, Wednesday Addams surpasses the rest of her family as she consistently tests out a multitude of hand-me-down torturing equipment such as a rusty old guillotine. But out of all of the times she tortures people, her most extreme tormenting actions occur in a comic book.
In Addams Family: The Bodies Issue by Zoe Quinn, Philip Murphy, Maria Keane, and Valentina Pinto’s, Wednesday Addams is struggling with her greatest weakness and torture of all… boredom as she has outgrown her hand-me-down torturing devices and is tired of playing games like Snakes and Adders, Stabble, or Kick the Can with her brother Pugsley. She is in need of a new means of torturing her brother and her family in general. Soon, a conversation ensues between her and her mother as Morticia asks her children if they are okay because it’s been quite some time since she’s heard, “a bump in the night.” After Wednesday tells her mother that she’s bored out of her mind, her Grandmama hints at a grimoire that’s been passed down on her mother’s side, which gives the person who uses it an infinite amount of power. Immediately, Wednesday searches through her family’s ginormous library to find the grimoire, but she discovers something else instead that may be useful in giving her new means of torturing people… a teen magazine called 11Teen that informs it’s target audience (young women) about self-improvement.
At first, she takes the advice the tome grants her – twisting it to fit her malevolent desires. At one point Wednesday takes the advice, “Liven up your wardrobe,” and replaces one of her mother’s scarfs with the flesh of a living creature. But no matter how hard she tries to use the given advice to torture her family, they end up enjoying it – which inspires her to turn it up a notch. Because her macabre actions only bring joy to her family, she decides she needs to bring beauty into their lives. So, she does what her family least expects and begins painting Thing’s nails, braids Cousin Itt’s hair, and even puts makeup on Pugsley’s face – prompting him to shout in misery, “I’m adorable!” As a result of her insane actions, her parents (specifically, Morticia) suggests a talk about what it means to be an Addams.
Based upon the dark humor circulating Wednesday and Pugsley, it’s no wonder they’re a fantastic brother and sister duo. But it’s obvious Wednesday is her brother’s role model – which is one of the many reasons Gomez and Morticia feel like they have to step in and give their daughter a talk. Because one can’t be a part of The Addams Family and not have a sick sense of humor.
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