History BLAM / ComicBooks

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In ''The Broken Ear'', after villains Alonso and Ramón [[spoiler:fall from the boat and drown]], there's a panel showing them being [[spoiler:DraggedOffToHell by three little black devils]], which is really out of place for the genre of the series. One animated adaptation found it to disturbing for the intended audience, so in the cartoon Alonso and Ramón [[spoiler:are pulled out of the water with Tintin and arrested for their crimes]].

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In ''The Broken Ear'', after villains Alonso and Ramón [[spoiler:fall from the boat and drown]], there's a panel showing them being [[spoiler:DraggedOffToHell by three little black devils]], which is really out of place for the genre of the series. One animated adaptation found it to disturbing for the intended audience, so in the cartoon Alonso and Ramón [[spolier:are pulled out of the water with Tintin and arrested for their crimes]].

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In ''The Broken Ear'', after the two bad guy falls from the boat and drown, there's a pannel showing them being DraggedOffToHell by three little black devils, which is really out of place for the genre of the series.

* ''ComicBook/Calico2020'': In Issue #2, we see Calico driving an inconspicuous car while talking about baseball and sticks. Then he's out of costume getting a blowjob from a hooker. The rest of the story continues on like it never happened.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and the Actress'', both Asterix and Obelix have fallen in love with a Roman HoneyTrap, Latraviata. This LoveTriangle causes Obelix, who has SuperStrength to MegatonPunch Asterix in the face. Getafix attempts to cure his strange behaviour by giving him SuperSerum magic potion, which causes him to [[InASingleBound super-jump out to sea]], flirt inanely with Latraviata, hit his head on a rock, regain his senses, drift around in a storm for a page, and then get rescued by a friendly bottlenose dolphin (in the English Channel...) in a partially literal DeusExMachina (as Asterix states that it must be the protector god of the Gauls, Toutatis, saving him). He gets back, dries off, and it is never mentioned again, even though in order for the wackiness to ensue Obelix had to hit his own best friend in anger over a girl he had no chance with, and Asterix's relationship with Latraviata weirdly progresses. It seems very much like a {{filler}} segment to bring the comic up to 48 pages.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
** ''The Broken Ear'' has one where an absent-minded professor leaves his house wearing his wife's overcoat and holding a cane like an umbrella, when he comes across a parrot and mistakes it for a person when it speaks. It is a parrot that Tintin is trying to recapture, but there is no interaction with any of the other characters in the story while this vignette is going on, and it adds nothing to advance the story (the parrot has already been shown speaking, so it's not even that). Hergé in his fondness for absent-minded professors probably just wanted to throw in a moment of [[RuleOfFunny comic relief]].
** In the same book, after the two bad guy falls from the boat and drown, there's a pannel showing them being DraggedOffToHell by three little black devils, which is really out of place for the genre of the series.
** ''Tintin in Tibet'' has a short sequence, where Tintin hears something moving up a tree and gets a soggy fruit thrown into his face. Then the story just continues, before we even get to know ''who'' threw that fruit at Tintin.

* Every year around Kwanzaa, the comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' runs a two-week-long StoryArc that involves new, made-up characters doing absolutely ridiculous things supposedly based upon African folktales. Past arcs have included [[http://joshreads.com/images/07/01/i070102curtis.jpg a golden, telepathic otter and a magic sandal]] and [[http://joshreads.com/images/0601/i060109curtis.jpg bat-winged bears]], among others. These often toe the line between RuleOfCool and MindScrew, and consensus among ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'''s community is that these are often the strip's [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome crowning moments of awesome]].

* CrisisCrossover events that affect unrelated comic series will often result in these for readers of those periphery titles. An {{egregious}} example was in the second arc of ''[[ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} New Thunderbolts]]'', when the story gets interrupted in the middle of a battle by ''House of M'' so that the series can shift to a story in another reality that is loosely connected to the actual series only by thematic similarities. The recap page of the next issue has the arc's villain, the Purple Man (who had thus far been describing himself as a writer) complaining that [[BitingTheHandHumor his story was interrupted by some bizarre intrusion that had nothing to do with what he had planned]].

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''

* Franchise/{{Tintin}}''

* The ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' series has a mild one in ''The Broken Ear''. An absent-minded professor leaves his house wearing his wife's overcoat and holding a cane like an umbrella, comes across a parrot, then mistakes it for a person when it speaks. It is a parrot that Tintin is trying to recapture, but there is no interaction with any of the other characters in the story while this vignette is going on, and it adds nothing to advance the story (the parrot has already been shown speaking, so it's not even that). Hergé in his fondness for absent-minded professors probably just wanted to throw in a moment of [[RuleOfFunny comic relief]].
** In the same book, after the two bad guy falls from the boat and drown, there's a pannel showing the bad guys being [[DraggedOffToHell dragged off by black devils]] which is really out of place for the genre of the series.

* CrisisCrossover events that affect unrelated comic series will often result in these for readers of those periphery titles. An {{egregious}} example was in the second arc of ''[[{{Thunderbolts}} New Thunderbolts]]'', when the story gets interrupted in the middle of a battle by ''House of M'' so that the series can shift to a story in another reality that is loosely connected to the actual series only by thematic similarities. The recap page of the next issue has the arc's villain, the Purple Man (who had thus far been describing himself as a writer) complaining that [[BitingTheHandHumor his story was interrupted by some bizarre intrusion that had nothing to do with what he had planned]].

** The 33rd volume of the series, ''Asterix and the Falling Sky'', counts as a BLAM for the entire series. It's mostly about Asterix and Obelix witnessing the battle among two alien races who are [[ShallowParody shallow parodies]] of Walt Disney toons and American superhero comic books on one hand and Japanese anime and manga characters on the other. The shift from historical fantasy to Sci-Fi, the poorly-researched and mean-spirited jabs at superheroes and manga, the analogies to the Bush administration's handling of the 2003 Iraq War in the behavior of the USA-like aliens, all ensured that this one volume was the single most despised one in the entire franchise.