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9	Comic books are not just kids' stories, I swear! [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds They're a viable art form capable of telling mature stories with deep characters]]. Just look at these examples! I'm not crazy! ''I swear!''
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13	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ActionPhilosophers'']]: A comic book about the life stories of famous philosophers.
14	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'']]: The feature series is a FunnyAnimal science fiction military series where every major adventure ends with a serious discussion of its sociopolitical ramifications.
15	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'']]: A rich man kidnaps a young boy, age 12, and tries to make him live in a cave eating rats.
16	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AmericanBornChinese'']]: The heartwarming stories of, respectively, a Chinese boy, a Chinese stereotype and a talking monkey.
17	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AmericanSplendor'']]: A grumpy file clerk and jazz fan tells stories about his own life and thoughts.
18	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld'']]: A story about a girl whose age swaps back and forth between teenager and adult while she fights evil wizards in a magical land.
19	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AnimalMan (1988)'']]: A C-List superhero from the '60's goes through a literal life crisis and has to deal with his existence via RageAgainstTheAuthor.
20	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Annihilation}}'']]: C-List superheroes fight bugs in space.
21	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AnyasGhost'']]: A Russian high school student becomes friends with a dead American girl.
22	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'']]: The adventures of the mutant bastard child of a sailor and a mermaid.
23	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ArchieComics'']]: A blonde and a brunette fight over a redhead.
24	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ArchieMeetsThePunisher'']]: A gun-toting vigilante teams up with a teenager to capture a criminal who's escaped to idyllic small town America.
25	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'']]: A team of anthropomorphic animals led by a blue mammal fight a psychotic fatman for the fate of their world.
26	** [[spoiler:''Sonic Universe'']]: The adventures of everyone else in that universe.
27	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'']]: Robot boy fights psychotic old man because old man got jealous of robot boy's dad.
28	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsCollide'']]: Psychotic fat man and psychotic old man buddy up to fight blue mammal and robot boy.
29	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogMegaManWorldsUnite'']]: Nihilistic robot creates MergedReality, animals and robots buddy up.
30	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'']]: A man remodels his house, then his family dies and he goes insane. Decades later, a clown and his crazy friends take over the house and invite a vigilante who likes to dress up to visit. Hilarity ensues.
31	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumLivingHell'']]: An embezzler comes to regret weaseling his way into an {{insanity defense}}.
32	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AssociatedStudentBodies'']]: College kid from conservative family gets stuck in gay dorm.
33	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'']]: The adventures of old-fashioned Frenchmen with a penchant for fighting and pork.
34	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AstroCity'']]: A guy who is depressed because of overwork, homesickness and lack of romance, a ten year old girl who doesn't know what hopscotch is, a guy who beats people up while dressed as a clown, a [[ChromeChampion metallic]] former crook, a teenager who dresses as an altar boy because he's annoyed at his dead father and other inhabitants of the same city have adventures and are psychoanalyzed.
35	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheAuthority'']]: A bunch of popular superhero ripoffs want to make the world a better place by killing people.
36	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheAvengers'']]: A man with mechanical armour, a steroid-enhanced man in an American flag get up, the God of Agriculture, and other costumed cuckoos get together to fight the forces of evil.
37	** Rich guy starts a private paramilitary group out of his spare rooms, staffs it with his friends. He is persistently vindicated.
38	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative'']]: Superheroes go to {{Boot Camp\|Episode}}.
39	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/BabyBlues'']]: An early 90s couple have trouble raising their babies.
40	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheBackstagers'']]: A group of stagehands at an all-male high school's drama club experience supernatural goings-on backstage.
41	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Bamse}}'']]: An athletic-performance-enhancing drug using bear and a narcoleptic tortoise forces their anxiety riddled bunny friend on adventures.
42	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'']]: Rich kid watches his parents get shot. Decides to squander their fortune by building himself a rocket powered car and becoming a vigilante. His arch-nemesis is a drugged-up clown.
43	** Alternative: Rich man beats up the poor, the insane, and a clown.
44	** Alternative: Rich guy dresses up like a bat, lives with a kid in short shorts, and fights the mentally compromised.
45	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'']]: A 55-year-old billionaire with a death wish fights a gang of mutants, a homosexual clown, and a PhysicalGod with the help of a 13-year-old girl.
46	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'']]: Luchador on super steroids breaks rich guy's back so psychopath can take over. Rich guy gets better and kicks out the psychopath.
47	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'']]: Rich guy slums it out for a year after earthquake wrecks city.
48	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Batgirl\|2000}}'']]: Abused and learning-disabled runaway girl finds a constructive outlet for her [[DeathSeeker death wish]].
49	** [[spoiler:''Batman And Robin'']]: An acrobat and his TykeBomb stepbrother fight the mentally ill, estranged family members, and sometimes a mentally ill estranged family member.
50	** [[spoiler:''Battle For The Cowl'']]: Brothers fight over their apparently dead step-father's stuff.
51	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/BiancaLittleLostLamb'']]: ''Anime/RingingBell'' with furries.
52	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'']]: A paraplegic, a screamer, and a crossbow-enthusiast develop a social club.
53	** Alternative: A librarian, a florist, and a schoolteacher team up to fight crime.
54	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'']]: A feline detective in a world of furries must solve cases of murder, racism, and the rather gritty realities of life, while dealing with a hygiene-challenged sidekick. Originally in French.
55	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'']]: A naive talking penguin and his woodland creature friends hang out with a boy in glasses, another boy who wants to be a ballerina, and a Vietnam Vet.
56	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'']]:
57	** [[spoiler:Ted Kord]]: Batman without the psychological problems.
58	** [[spoiler:2006 series]]: A high school kid who wants to be a dentist teams up with a homicidal alien superweapon, and fights an array of villains with the assistance of his family and friends.
59	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/BlueIsTheWarmestColor'']]: Woman reads her dead girlfriend's diary about embracing that she's lesbian.
60	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'']]: A slacker, a corrupt politician, and a literature buff are chased into the desert and plunge into a valley, where they meet a queen and princess who specialize in cows and fight a crazy old woman who spits out bugs.
61	** Alternatively, ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' meets ''Literature/MobyDick'' meets ''Franchise/TheSmurfs''.
62	** Alternatively: Three tiny white guys travel with a lady and her grandma. Locusts are a problem, but they're not attacking crops.
63	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'']]: An angry black kid with a huge afro bitches about the current black celebrities. Also his brother is an 8-year-old gangsta.
64	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/BoosterGold'']]: A disgraced athlete travels through time to make money.
65	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/BrotherJuniper'']]: The day-to-day life of a joyful monk.
66	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'']]: On a lawless world, a man protects a woman from religious fanatics, prevents a kidnapping, stops a hijacking, and works to save the population of a doomed world. It's a comedy.
67	** [[spoiler:''Buck Godot, zap gun for hire: Psmith'']]: Love blossoms amidst assassination attempts by a stubborn drunk.
68	** [[spoiler:''Buck Godot, zap gun for hire: The Gallimaufry'']]: Tax law causes a man to visit a brothel.
69	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/BulletPoints'']]: [[ComicBook/WhatIf What happens if]] [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Professor Erskine]] gets shot one day earlier.
70	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'']]: Cyborg Mutie Jesus and a brain-damaged, motormouthed mercenary have morally questionable adventures that involve one of them turning into goo and the other ''eating'' him, then ''vomiting'' him back up. Hijinx ensue!
71	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheBeano Calamity James'']]: A bucktoothed youth is subjected to the most painful and humiliating situations imaginable. His talking pet lemming finds this hilarious.
72	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'']]: A boy and his talking stuffed animal travel through time and discuss politics.
73	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'']]: Scrawny shrimp is rejected from the army, takes drugs and becomes icon of America.
74	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/CaptainAtom (1987)'']]: A Vietnam veteran tries to reconnect with his now-adult children after having been absent from their lives since they were babies, and also tries to get over his dead wife. He falls in love with and eventually marries a terrorist.
75	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'']]: An [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic talking rabbit]] becomes a superhero, and forms a superhero team (who're also talking animals) consisting of: a pastiche of Creator/BurtReynolds, a gossip columnist, an out-of-work Southerner, an occultist martial arts instructor (who's also from [[UsefulNotes/NewOrleans the South]]), and a [[UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} Midwestern]] steel mill worker. Eventually a high school basketball player and a conservative radio talk show host also join the team.
76	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'']]: A crazy cat lady goes running around the city waving a whip.
77	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'']]: A funny animal sets out on an adventure that is really just a thinly-veiled way for the author to work through his beliefs. Then the author goes apewire and everything gets ''really, really weird''.
78	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'']]: A Chinese man eats things.
79	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/AvengersTheChildrensCrusade'']]: Gay mutie loses control of his powers and finds out his mom is marrying a supervillain.
80	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'']]: Concerned citizens protest government legislation. Things go out of hand. Website/YouTube and Website/MySpace are somehow involved.
81	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/CivilWarII'']]: College student sees the future, causes billionaire and military woman to fight over {{profiling}}.
82	* [[spoiler:''Close To Home'']]: Everyday life is really, really weird.
83	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/CoccoBill'']]: Italian western comic. With animals who smoke. And other absurdities. And NoFourthWall.
84	** Alternatively, a guy who likes tea shoots people.
85	* [[spoiler:''Concrete'']]: A man gets his brain transplanted into a stone body by aliens.
86	* [[spoiler:''Conqueror of the Barren Earth'']]: A being from another planet conquers the Earth. She sacks cities and towns that have never attacked her or given her any offense. She betrays and murders her husband, who loves and adores her, once he has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]]. The story implies that once she takes over the world, she will then use Earth as a power base from which she will attempt to conquer the rest of the galaxy. She is the hero of the story.
87	* [[spoiler:''Cosmic Odyssey'']]: The god-like ruler of an alternate universe made of anti-matter wants to destroy the main DC universe, so a powerful, mysterious being who up until that time had been known as an antagonist or villain gathers a bunch of DC superheroes to fight said god-like anti-matter being. It is revealed in the course of the story that the anti-matter being had attempted to destroy the positive-matter universe once before, but had been locked away, but that, at some point before the beginning of the story, a brilliant scientist had inadvertently released said anti-matter being, an event which did serious psychological damage to said brilliant scientist. The heroes successfully team up to defeat the threat, although they take some fatalities in the process, and, in the end, the good guys only prevail with the help of Darkseid, who is instrumental in defeating the anti-matter being in the final confrontation within his anti-matter universe. Is '''not''' ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
88	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/ACoupleOfGuys'']]: A gay middle-aged couple and their friends deal with life in New York City. One of the couple often has conversations with his own GoodAngelBadAngel pair.
89	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/CreatureFeature'']]: A series based around the band of the same name about two young men going on misadventures together. The series ''thrives'' on BlackComedy and humor that CrossesTheLineTwice.
90	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'']]: A man and his counterpart decide to end their long feud, getting many people involved. This destroys [[TheMultiverse most of existence.]] The survivors don't remember most of this after the fact.
91	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'']]: The few people who did remember that fight are pissed off by the fact that no one else does and that they are all too DarkerAndEdgier than they used to be. A teenage boy becomes one of the most dangerous threats to all of existence, but is very whiny.
92	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'']]: While the real stars of the DCU are PutOnABus, minor side characters you barely recognize have their own struggles, sometimes against their own alter egos. Culminates in an epic battle against a sarcastic {{butterfly\|OfDoom}} for the fate of [[TheMultiverse something which hadn't existed for over twenty years.]]
93	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'']]: Turns out the original man and his counterpart weren't exactly who we thought they were. The ''real'' man is now a threat to [[TheMultiverse that thing that hadn't existed for over twenty years]] and more. Only one or two (relatively) small group(s) of people know about this; everyone else is distracted by the more immediate, yet equally serious threat of an old man destroying everything by sitting in a chair, who eventually kills Batman. Needs to be read a few times to be understood completely.
94	*** [[spoiler:''Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds'']]: The teenage boy discovers that people don't think too highly of him in the future and decides that just being whiny about this won't do much, so he decides to '''make''' people respect him. Two previously dead characters are brought back by three versions of the same team (who have never met prior) to stop the teenage boy. The teenage boy manages to get back to home, but wants to go back since people think he's a psycho.
95	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'']]: A {{Gorn}}-laden TakeThat at survivalists who expect [[ZombieGait walkers]] and get [[Series/{{Firefly}} Reavers.]]
96	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheCrow'']]: Goth guy avenges his girlfriend with the help of a bird that may or may not be a hallucination.
97	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'']]: A blind man beats up ninjas, assassins, hitmen, and mobs. They cannot hurt him, so they kill his girlfriend instead.
98	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DarkEmpire'']]: A MagnificentBastard who was thrown down a shaft six years ago comes BackFromTheDead.
99	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'']]: Evil versions of a rich guy try to drag Earth into a dark universe.
100	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DarkReign'']]: After he kills the leader of an alien invasion, a man who's secretly an insane supervillain is put in charge of the nation's new top crime-fighting agency.
101	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Darkhawk}}'']]: Teenager finds an amulet that allows him to transform into an alien android and uses his powers to fight crime while trying to keep his family from falling apart at the seams.
102	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DCRebirth'']]: Speedster that fell out of continuity comes back, starts to fix continuity by existing.
103	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheButton'']]: Rich guy and speedster try to solve mystery of a small trinket.
104	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheOzEffect'']]: Mystery man gives immigrant crisis of faith.
105	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'']]: Superheroes go looking for God in another universe.
106	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DarkNightsDeathMetal'']]: Nihilistic rich clown decides to become God. Greek woman stops to stop him and inadvertently fixes all continuity problems.
107	*** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'']]: That happened. That happened, too. Yes, that, too.
108	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DeadlyClass'']]: Nihilistic teen joins a school for assassins. Much violence and drug-induced philosophy ensues.
109	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'']]: A cancer patient gets healing superpowers that leave him deformed and crazy, so he [[PsychoForHire kills people for money]] and never shuts up. He has NoFourthWall.
110	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/DickTracy'']]: A dude always dressed in yellow and armed with gadgets that are almost ridiculous pursues people easily identified by their hideous deformities.
111	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics'']]: Classic cartoon characters do interesting stuff.
112	** [[spoiler:''[[Creator/CarlBarks Uncle Scrooge'']]]]: An obscenely rich old man pays his nephew and his nephew's nephews an absurdly small wage to, alternately, guard his house or accompany him around the world on bizarre adventures. Occasionally they battle a gang of identical masked idiots who have numbers instead of names.
113	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'']]: A PromotedFanboy's combination of a bunch of old comic book stories about a cheapskate.
114	*** [[spoiler:''The Last Of The Clan [=McDuck=]'']]: A Scottish kid's life is changed by an American coin.
115	*** [[spoiler:''The Master of the Mississippi'']]: A teenager, his card shark uncle, and the grandfather of a future colleague -- they fight crime. And get muddy.
116	*** [[spoiler:''The Buckaroo of the Badlands'']]: A Scottish cowboy befriends Teddy Roosevelt.
117	*** [[spoiler:''The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark'']]: Cattle rustling in Java.
118	*** [[spoiler:''The Raider Of The Copper Hill'']]: A copper miner gives up copper mining.
119	*** [[spoiler:''The New Laird of Castle [=McDuck=]'']]: A near-death experience inspires a Scotsman to take up gold mining.
120	*** [[spoiler:''The Terror of the Transvaal'']]: A Boer teaches a gold miner how to be cynical and mistrusting.
121	*** [[spoiler:''The Dreamtime Duck of the Never-Never'']]: A duck [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules turns down a chance to be a jerk and get rich]].
122	*** [[spoiler:''King of the Klondike'']]: A prospector is kidnapped, a piano is thrown, and a riverboat is destroyed.
123	*** [[spoiler:''The Prisoner of White Agony Creek'']]: {{Funny Animal}}s have [[SlapSlapKiss hatesex]].
124	*** [[spoiler:''Hearts of the Yukon'']]: Gal tries to make up with her ex by having him arrested.
125	*** [[spoiler:''The Billionaire of Dismal Downs'']]: Rich Scotsman finds out YouCantGoHomeAgain.
126	*** [[spoiler:''The Raider of Fort Duckberg'']]: Rich Scotsman and his sisters fight the American military over a run-down fort.
127	*** [[spoiler:''The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut'']]: Rich Scotsman accidentally thwarts a military coup in Central America after he gets into a fistfight with Theodore Roosevelt.
128	*** [[spoiler:''The Empire-Builder from Calisota'']]: A zombie chases a duck as punishment for an OutOfCharacterMoment.
129	*** [[spoiler:''The Richest Duck in the World'']]: A RetiredBadass, his smallest fan, and [[SingleMindedTwins Single Minded Triplets]] -- they fight crime and plan to fight more.
130	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Ultraheroes}}'']]: Various superheroes and supervillains from the main universe (and some guys that usually don't have superpowers but now they do because yes) fight each other for the pieces of a WeaponOfMassDestruction.
131	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/WizardsOfMickey'']]: A good wizard, a wizard with late-effect spells and a wizard who wants to do something different than being a wizard try to collect magic diamonds. In season 2, the good wizard becomes an evil tyrant, then snaps back and builds a HumongousMecha to fight dragons. In Season 3, a giant worm drains the magic away from the diamonds, and the worm is later defeated from a lich by making it cry. In season 4, they discover that the diamonds are actually eggs for giant bugs ([[SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying which are referred to by everyone as spiders even when they're clearly not]]).
132	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{DMZ}}'']]: A photographer goes to New York City; turns out it's not such a great place.
133	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'']]: Surgeon attempts to get his hands treated and ends up becoming the most powerful sorcerer on the planet.
134	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'']]: People with unfortunate medical/metaphysical conditions save the world repeatedly, but people mostly don't notice.
135	* [[spoiler:''Webcomic/DorkTower'']]: A bunch of nerds bicker with each other and play role-playing games with a muskrat. One of them has the hots for a PerkyGoth.
136	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/Earth2'']]: A group of [[NiceGuy good-natured people]] try to replace their fallen heroes.
137	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/EarthX'']]: Everybody gains superpowers, but are powerless to stop an egg from hatching.
138	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ElfQuest'']]: Elves go on a quest. Um, did I make that one too easy?
139	** {{Magitek}} aliens go looking for their old spaceship and otherwise adventure.
140	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'']]: An artist best known for his print adaptations of a Japanese cartoon decides to base an ongoing superhero series on a set of soft-porn bondage sketches he did on commission. The titular heroine is aware of this and not really thrilled by it. The art of the final, published comic is uninked, uncolored pencil sketches.
141	** Half dark and brooding tale of corruption and bloodshed, half silly fanservice comedy.
142	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheEternalSmile'']]: A fantasy hero's life falls apart because of an anachronism, an [[ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck Uncle Scrooge]] [[CaptainErsatz knock-off]] discovers his life is a lie, and a shy office worker gains self-confidence after falling for a classic Internet scam.
143	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheEyeOfMongombo'']]: After getting fired from his teaching job, a two-fisted adventurer decides to seek a legendary treasure but ends up [[ForcedTransformation as]] a [[QuackingUp waterfowl.]]
144	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'']]: A MassiveMultiplayerCrossover featuring characters from {{Fairy Tale}}s and folklore, who are forced out of their homelands by a ruthless dictator and take refuge in New York City.
145	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/TheFamilyUpstairs'']]: A guy tries to drive his noisy neighbors as mad as they've driven him. ThoseTwoGuys eventually get [[ComicStrip/KrazyKat their own strip]].
146	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/FantasticFour'']]: A nerd, his girlfriend, her brother and the nerd's best friend live together and spend their time bickering and fighting the Nerd's insecure college rival, who ''really'' doesn't know how to let go of a grudge.
147	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'']]: Weird things happen to animals and fat people with glasses.
148	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Fell}}'']]: A good cop tries to make a difference in a bad city. He doesn't.
149	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/FishPolice'']]: An alcoholic fish, who may have once been a human, has to solve crimes.
150	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheFlash'']]: One habitually late forensic scientist has lab accident in thunderstorm, starts running faster.
151	** [[spoiler:Wally West]]: kid with hero complex gets struck by lightning and chemicals and goes real fast, then real slow (relatively speaking), then real fast, then REALLY fast, then has a suit made out of "goes fast".
152	** [[spoiler:Jay Garrick]]: A man breaths in hard water vapors, then starts to run really fast.
153	** [[spoiler:Professor Zoom]]: man blames hard life on historical figure, sets out to murder him.
154	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013'']]: Villains from another universe take over the world, and can only be stopped by villains from the main universe.
155	* [[spoiler:''{{ComicStrip/Foxtrot}}'']]: A nerd, his siblings, and his pet reptile discuss current things.
156	* [[spoiler:''{{ComicStrip/Frazz}}'']]: An elementary school janitor ex-musician philosophises with the students.
157	** If you want people to actually give it a try, tell them it's when [[spoiler:{{ComicStrip/Calvin\|AndHobbes}}]] gets older and becomes a school employee.
158	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/FritzTheCat'']]: A FunnyAnimal feline con artist goes on wild adventures and has a lot of sex. Crows [[FantasticRacism stand in]] for African Americans. Created as the result of an early form of what later became the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom.
159	* [[spoiler:''From The Dust'']]: Literature/TheBookOfMormon...retold [[RecycledInSpace WITH FURRIES]]! ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20140714142931/http://shop.bookofmormoncomic.com/ No, really]].)
160	* [[spoiler:''{{ComicStrip/Garfield}}'']]: The everyday life of a [[HeavySleeper lazy]], [[BigEater gluttonous]] DeadpanSnarker who lives with a perennial loser and his dumb friend, usually with NoFourthWall. Some think [[WildMassGuessing he may have died 20 years ago]].
161	* [[spoiler:''Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield'']]: Perhaps the most iconic, well-known newspaper comic strip character outside of Snoopy is removed from his own strip. Predictably, this makes the strip a lot less funny.
162	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'']]: Similar to the above comic, but the DeadpanSnarker is NOT lazy nor gluttonous.
163	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency'']]: ''HeroesRUs'' with crowdsourcing.
164	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GoldieVance'']]: The daughter of a hotel manager and a fashion model/mermaid takes a side gig as a junior detective where she solves mysteries, races fast cars, and falls in love with the cute rocker chick at her local record store.
165	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheGoon'']]: A thug and his pupilless sidekick fight an army of zombies created by Rumpelstiltskin.
166	* [[spoiler:''Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks'']]: A bully gets a spaceship stuck up his nose, and teams up with a geek to get it out. He pays the geek back by using animal crackers and a donut to help the geek deal with his daddy issues.
167	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GothamCentral'']]: Police officers fight crime while dealing with the interference of an obsessed billionaire.
168	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'']]: Girls who are able to fly ride bikes to get around and fight over scraps.
169	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers'']]: A guy discovers he's immortal and teams up with a mute dinosaur, a 2-dimensional man, the grim reaper and a bulimic fat chick to fight crime. There are lots of squirrels and murders. They fight crime, and a guy in bondage gear who likes to dress up as the leader of a small European country.
170	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GreenArrow'']]: An aging hunter gets involved in political situations and cheats on his girlfriend.
171	** The team is a lady who wears fishnets to work, a (former?) Buddhist, an AIDS patient, and a LIBERAL! Cool huh?
172	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GreenLantern'']]: The adventures of various humans who serve as troopers of a stateless police force wearing the ultimate in functional jewelry and use their imagination to fight crime.
173	** [[spoiler:Alan Scott]]: A railroad engineer finds a magic rock the stateless police force threw away.
174	** [[spoiler:Hal Jordan]]: A test pilot is inducted into the stateless police.
175	** [[spoiler:Kyle Rayner]]: A random guy is given jewelry and decides to join the police.
176	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GreenLanternRebirth'']]: The most famous human (who had been dead for ''years'') comes back in a way that retcons his FaceHeelTurn so his character assassination could be reversed. This does not get rid of any of the other humans (especially his replacement) and helps the police force get rebuilt.
177	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar'']]: The police force is attacked by newly formed [[ThePsychoRangers counterpart group]] with robots whose leaders are a disgruntled ex-cop, a cyborg, a whiny teenage boy and some dead guy's newly reborn evil counterpart (see entries above for latter two). Many asses are kicked in the process.
178	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/BlackestNight'']]: Death is tired of being [[DeathIsCheap cheated]] by superheroes and decides to destroy all life in the universe with the aid of a necrophiliac and the power of some dead guy's evil counterpart. Everyone decides to stop fighting each other to prevent this from occurring.
179	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/RiseOfTheThirdArmy'']]: The police force's leaders decide to fire the whole force and replace them with an army that [[TheAssimilator absorbs everything]], powered by a SealedEvilInACan.
180	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/WrathOfTheFirstLantern'']]: The SealedEvilInACan gets loose and decides to screw with everyone by RewritingReality for kicks.
181	** [[spoiler:''[[ComicBook/GreenLanternLightsOut Lights Out'']]]]: The police force, now under the leadership of the most famous human member, fight an ecoterrorist.
182	* [[spoiler:’’ComicBook/{{Grendel}}’’]]: Author/assassin/crime lord fights lycanthrope. He ends up being killed by lycanthrope, but his legacy is carried first by his adoptive granddaughter and then her boyfriend. Centuries later, a millionaire uses that legacy to battle vampires.
183	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'']]: A well-meaning idiot causes mayhem wherever he goes.
184	** [[spoiler:''Deadpool'']] would be a good guess.
185	** This troper thought you meant a graphic novel adaptation of [[spoiler:''The Phantom Menace'']].
186	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'']]: A bunch of people from around the solar system of various backgrounds band together to fight injustice.
187	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy1990'' vol.1]]: A telekinetic astronaut who's been frozen for a thousand years, a walking mass of muscle, a man made out of crystal, an alien who shoots arrows, a girl who's permanently on fire, and a [[SharingABody bodysharing couple]] have adventures across the galaxy in the 31st century. Despite living in the future, become the inspiration for the spaceman and his friends.
188	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2008'' vol.2]]: After the galaxy survives a pair of wars, a spaceman puts together a team consisting of a living tree, a talking raccoon, a space madonna, a mass murderer, a femme fatale, and a resurrected space wizard with the intent of preemptively keeping the peace. They run the operation out of a base with a psychic cosmonaut dog as the head of security.
189	** [[spoiler:''Guardians of the Galaxy'' vol.3]]: The spaceman manages to escape somehow from being sealed in a can, and recruits the mass murderer, the femme fatale, the talking raccoon, the living tree, and a narcissist in powered armor to help him deal with his {{jerkass}} father, who ran out on his mother. They're later joined by a {{stripperiffic}} angel, a paraplegic with a brain-eating symbiote, and an amnesiac pilot.
190	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/HackSlash'']]: Goth girl with a troubled past involving an overbearing mother and her gas mask wearing sidekick raised by a butcher travel around the country fighting dead people.
191	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'']]: A con man repeatedly escapes the consequences of [[DealWithTheDevil associating with demons.]] His friends do not.
192	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'']]: A demonic pancake-enthusiast fights Nazis and magic things.
193	** This troper once had to explain to a friend what [[spoiler:''Hellboy: The Conqueror Worm'']] is about. "Well.. it's about a demon working for a secret agency, that fights space-nazis who are trying to summon an ancient god/s by using the dead to communicate with space-ghost-aliens. It's WAY better than it sounds." Also in these few pages he fights [[spoiler:a cyborg gorilla, undead, a floating head in a jar, frog-people and a giant space-worm with the help of a pyrokinetic psychic, a homunculus and an alien disguised as a soldier]].
194	** This troper once fell asleep on the couch in his sharehouse, and woke up to find his housemates halfway through the sequel, where a demon and a fish-man are singing Barry Manilow, asking 'what the f--k are we watching?' came with hilarious results as the group realised at that moment they were in an extreme example of this trope.
195	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{BPRD}}'']]: Pancake-enthusiast's friends fight evil frogs.
196	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/HolyTerror'']]: A vigilante and a catburglar [[DisproportionateRetribution fight terrorists.]]
197	* [[spoiler:''Hopeless Savages'']]: What if [[Music/SexPistols Sid and Nancy]] had settled down and had kids.
198	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Horndog}}'']]: The strange life of a FunnyAnimal dog whose life revolves around cannabis and sex. Black cats stand in for African Americans.
199	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'']]: A free-thinker gets stuck in Cleveland and has to take on strange jobs to make ends meet while he and his roommate make pointed commentary about life in TheSeventies.
200	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Huntress}}'']]: A woman who is a cross between {{Franchise/Batman}} and Film/TheGodfather kills gangsters to avenge her family, even though she herself killed her own father and betrayed her uncle.
201	** Alternatively: An elegant dark-haired lady goes on a murder spree with an anachronistic weapon.
202	** Originally, the daughter of an alternate Earth's wealthy superhero and a cat burglar, before being replaced by the above version.
203	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004'']]: Years after the fact, a group of co-workers face the consequences of a cover-up while one of them re-unites with his ex-wife.
204	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'']]: Stupidity during a nuclear test gives a scientist severe anger management issues.
205	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'']]: The scientist's anger management problems and other psychological issues are explored in depth, in a way that turns his narrative into a horror story.
206	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'']]: A nihilist tries to make a woman love him, but ultimately sets himself up for defeat.
207	*** Or: Guy who can't take a hint keeps trying to impress his lady friend by killing half the universe, curb stomping anyone who faces him and creating a castle in her image with his new toy even though she stopped being interested in him because of said toy.
208	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheInfinityWar'']]: Alien's EvilDoppelganger makes EvilDoppelganger for everyone else.
209	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheInfinityCrusade'']]: Alien's OTHER doppelganger tries to make utopia.
210	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'']]: A teenager fights his dad after finding out that he's been living a double-life. The dad skips town, and his son has to take over the family business. The fate of the universe hangs in the balance.
211	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'']]: This 59-issue comic series is a retelling of Creator/PhilipKDick's last 9 seconds before he died.
212	** Or: A diverse group of people take drugs and discuss political philosophy
213	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/IronMan'']]: Drunken, selfish, narcissistic industrialist builds a mechanical outfit to keep his heart beating and fights crime on the side.
214	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'']]: SupermanSubstitute works out his frustrations.
215	* [[spoiler:''It's A Bird...'']]: Comic artist contemplates turning down [[{{Franchise/Superman}} plum job]] because of personal issues.
216	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'']]: A skinny goth philosophizes about the human condition while killing people and drawing comics about a crazy, foul-mouthed stick figure. Also there might or might not be a monster in his basement, and his best friend is a dead rabbit.
217	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'']]: A complete fascist rides around on a motorbike beating the snot out of half the criminals he encounters and executing the rest with a [[{{BFG}} massive gun]].
218	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'']]: [[Characters/{{Superman\|TheCharacter}} An optimistic farm boy who wants to help people]], [[Characters/{{Batman\|TheCharacter}} a cynical rich kid with mental issues]], [[Characters/{{Wonder Woman\|TheCharacter}} a girl unsure about the world from growing up in an all-girl commune]], [[ComicBook/TheFlash a laid-back chemist]], [[ComicBook/GreenLantern an arrogant pilot who wants to overcome his fear]], [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} a guy torn between two places in his life]] and [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter a lonely old man]] are the world's greatest heroes.
219	** They are later joined by [[ComicBook/GreenArrow a guy trying to learn about responsibility]], [[Characters/BlackCanary a loud girl living up to her mother's legacy]], [[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} two bird themed lovers]], [[ComicBook/TheAtom someone really smart and short]], [[ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} a girl with stunning linguistic skills]], [[ComicBook/ElongatedMan a guy obsessed with Indian stretching men]], [[ComicBook/RedTornado an emotionless weather man]] and [[ComicBook/FirestormDCComics two guys who are (literally) inseparable]].
220	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'']]: A wealthy businessman establishes by means of political intrigue an international law-enforcement agency under United Nations sanction. The members of said agency frequently have difficulty getting along, and some of them behave immaturely.
221	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/JLA1997'']]: The farm boy, the cynical kid, the girl from the all-girl commune, the man torn between two different places, and the old man decide to get the band back together with [[Characters/TheFlashWallyWest the chemist's nephew]] and an artist replacing the pilot. They're soon joined by the son of the guy trying to learn about responsibility, a gynoid built by two enemies of the team, [[ComicBook/{{Aztek}} a man raised by a secret society]], [[ComicBook/NewGods the son of a tyrant with rage issues, a former lackey of said tyrant]], an angel, [[Characters/BatmanHuntress a schoolteacher]], [[ComicBook/{{Steel}} a former stand-in for the farm boy]], [[ComicBook/PlasticMan an ex-con]], [[ComicBook/{{Oracle}} a cop's daughter]], the girl from the all-girl commune's mother, and an alternate universe version of the chemist's nephew.
222	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'']]: In the wake of [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis a disaster]] which claimed the lives of [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter two of]] [[{{Franchise/Batman}} their colleagues]], a number of people decide they want justice, but end up looking for vengeance. A supervillain who'd been confused for his [[VillainDecay incompetent ward]] decides to go on a rampage, resulting in major casualties. And in the end, a man avenging his adoptive son and his granddaughter permanently stops said supervillain.
223	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'']]: Octogenarian superheroes and a bunch of their legacies (including at least three teenage girls) fight Nazis and the legacies of supervillains.
224	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/KingdomCome'']]: Characters/{{Superman\|TheCharacter}} retires because he thinks the world doesn't need him. He is wrong.
225	** Alternatively, a bunch of old superheroes complain about the current generation and how things were better when they were fighting crime.
226	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'']]: Mouse goes to jail for feeding a cat's head trauma addiction.
227	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/KylesBedAndBreakfast'']]: Soap opera goings-on at a gay-owned bed and breakfast where half the guests look like models. The owner enjoys making pancakes.
228	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'']]: A neurotic divorcee, her drug-addict boyfriend and their [[AxCrazy murderous]], [[SociopathicHero amoral]] [[PsychoSidekick sidekicks]] run black ops for TheEmpire while a math teacher battles a crimelord over the right to take over the world. Then the aliens attack.
229	** Alternately, A MassiveMultiplayerCrossover with characters from Victorian-era novels, several of whom form a team of troubleshooters in the service of Great Britain.
230	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'']]: A bunch of overachieving teenagers from the future have goofy nicknames and can't decide on which costumes to wear.
231	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/{{Lio}}'']]: Weird and often macabre stuff happens to a mute boy.
232	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'']]: An alien biker bags up villains with gory and funny results.
233	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/LockeAndKey'']]: A group of kids try to stop a psychopathic villain who uses his Magical Keys to find more Magical Keys.
234	* [[spoiler:''Loyola Chin and the San Peligran Order'']]: Cornbread leads a teenage girl to fall in and out of love with a eugenicist who looks like Dr. Manhattan. This eventually helps restore her faith in God.
235	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'']]: A WickedCultured man, tired of being blamed for things he didn't do, gives up his position and travels the world.
236	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'']]: A cowboy with movements independent from those of his shadow who lives in an anachronistic western-ish world and who is apparently one of the few [[Main/OnlySaneMan sane men in the world]]. He often fights and defeats four dumb criminals who are one slightly taller than the other (and all have the same face).
237	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Lumberjanes}}'']]: A group of friends have adventures at a Girl Scouts-esque summer camp where bizarre supernatural things happen daily.
238	* [[spoiler:''{{ComicStrip/Mafalda}}'']]: Girl complains about world politics... [[DoesNotLikeSpam and soup.]]
239	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Magneto}}'']]: Bizarrely Aryan-seeming Jewish guy attempts to deal with his traumatic past by attempting to destroy humanity and making genetic freaks into the new dominant species. Meanwhile, his half-Roma daughter and son hate his guts.
240	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ManhunterDCComics'']]: A divorced attorney takes on a second job.
241	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/Marvel1602'']]: In [=XVIIth=] century Europe, a group of people with strange powers get intertwined with events of international politics. And they save the universe.
242	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Marvels}}'']]: A photographer loses an eye while documenting vigilante activity.
243	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Ruins}}'']]: A photographer watches people die in a CrapsackWorld.
244	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'']]: UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust with... we would say {{Funny Animal}}s (or Funny Aminals), but [[DudeNotFunny that just doesn't work]].
245	** Alternately, a comic book artist tries to [[ProdigalFamily reconcile with his estranged father]] in order to do a comic book retelling of the latter's tragic past. And it's all done using animals as caricatures.
246	** Alternately: The [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] tale of a TalkingAnimal during the Holocaust. BasedOnATrueStory.
247	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'']]: The made-up adventures of a god that nobody has worshipped in hundreds of years.
248	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/MonsterAllergy'']]: Invisible criminals are sent to rehab for crimes such as farting or playing the violin badly. Said rehab is in the house of a kid who is allergic to invisible criminals.
249	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Monstress}}'']]: Very angry teen with one arm and a foul mouth travels a war-torn fantasy Asia stand-in, accompanied by a fox girl, a talking cat, and the EldritchAbomination that lives in her arm stump.
250	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/{{Moomin}}'']]: Stories about a tax evader family where the father makes illegal moonshine among other things, his wife lets her son and his friends do whatever they want (including underage smoking and drinking), and their son regularly tries to murder people for interacting with his girlfriend and moons the reader at the start of every story. Also includes things like random talking helicopters and the son trying to kill himself because he has no family. Oh, and the characters originate from one of the most wholesome children's book series ever, and the comic was originally written by the writer of said books.
251	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/MoonKnight'']]: A mercenary finds religion.
252	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/MoonKnight2021'']]: Mercenary goes to therapy and makes new friends while continuing to carry out his religious duties.
253	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'']]: A group of characters take storytelling way too seriously. Or not seriously enough.
254	* [[spoiler:''{{ComicStrip/Mutts}}'']]: Unconventional friends try to understand the people around them.
255	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'']]: Government employees read their employer's financial information, steal a business vehicle, and go off to violate their now-former boss's purchasing agreements.
256	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/NewMutants'']]: A vietnamese refugee with psychic powers, a NobleSavage who can project contructs of people's desires and nightmares, a living solar battery who gets powerful, a scottish werewolf who self-hates herself and a cole miner's son who can't control his trajectory are recruited by a bald man to replace his [[ComicBook/XMen former team]] while dealing with their own angst.
257	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DemonBearSaga'']] A monster who tormented the NobleSavage is back to try and kill her friends.
258	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/NewSuperMan'']]: China makes a ''living'' Franchise/{{Superman}} ripoff.
259	* [[spoiler:‘’ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool’’]]: A high school student is the target of romantic affection by two girls: one is from a powerful family of spies and assassins and the other comes from a powerful empire. Hilarity ensues.
260	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}'']]: D&D characters hire OnlySaneMan short guy to carry their loot. He dies and [[UnexplainedRecovery comes back]] frequently.
261	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/NonSequitur'']]: A young girl discusses with her friend, a talking horse, regular schemes of world domination.
262	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/OmahaTheCatDancer'']]: A FunnyAnimal sexually explicit SoapOpera about a feline stripper and her friends told with a sex-positive ''feminist'' point of view.
263	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'']]: A FunnyAnimal created 80 years ago finds the toys of a rich reluctant MadScientist. He uses them to dress up and fight crime and aliens.
264	** OR: A StrawLoser TookALevelInBadass with the help of a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] computer.
265	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/PatsyWalker'']]: Archie Comics copycat [[{{Retool}} becomes]] [[ComicBook/{{Hellcat}} a superhero]] after taking a copycat costume from a crate. Both her husbands become [[PsychoExGirlfriend exes from Hell]], in one case [[AntiAntiChrist literal]].
266	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'']]: [[SliceOfLife The everyday life]] of a boy who fails at everything, his weird friends, and his delusional dog. The dog's best friend is his paruline ex-secretary.
267	** OR: The story of a boy who [[EpicFail fails]] at everything and is mocked by the whole world, while being observed by a dog and a bird who sit atop a doghouse.
268	** OR: The story of a boy who [[EpicFail fails]] at everything, his younger sister, and his much more successful friends: A classical musician, a psychiatrist, a philosopher, an athlete, a scholar, and [[BreakoutCharacter most famously of all]], a man of many talents (but most often a novelist) and his assistant who live with the boy.
269	** Alternately, a boy tries and fails to kick a football.
270	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'']]: Animals with no expressions are used to make {{Pun}}s.
271	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'']]: A girl is forced to leave her country for her own good. When she is forced to come back, she decides she should leave her country for her own good again.
272	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'']]: A girl is best friends with a Main/{{Unicorn}}.
273	* [[spoiler:''Phonogram: Rue Britannia'']]: Indie music snob with magical powers attempts to stop {{Disco Dan}}s from rewriting his musical tastes.
274	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'']]: A hero from the Thirties discovers that a hero from the Sixties is secretly a villain from the Fifties. The hero joins up with a dude with ADD and a woman with ADHD. They fight crime by digging things up.
275	* [[spoiler:''{{ComicStrip/Pluggers}}'']]: A FunnyAnimal comic on suburban life. Most romances are {{interspecies\|Romance}}.
276	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'']]: A violent, ill-tempered, and somewhat insane chain-smoker physically assaults anyone who gets in his way. If fighting normally proves ineffective, he will consume a container of performance-enhancing substance (in the athletic sense), which he typically keeps on his person, which inevitably allows him to [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomp]] anyone he wishes in any way he wants. Parents largely consider him a good role model for children.
277	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/PowerGirl'']]: [[DistaffCounterpart Superman]] [[MostCommonSuperpower with tits]] fights super intelligent gorilla, alien 70s porn star, and bestiality fetishists.
278	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Powerless}}'']]: The Franchise/MarvelUniverse, only without anyone having powers.
279	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'']]: An extremely charismatic priest, his girlfriend, and his alcoholic best friend take a cross-country trip/crime spree.
280	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ThePro'']]: Hooker with superpowers teams up with Justice League rip offs. Fights crime. Urinates on villain. Saves world.
281	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheProfessorsDaughter'']]: An Egyptologist's only child falls in love with a dead guy. Murder and mayhem ensues, including the dead guy getting [[DrunkOnMilk drunk on tea]] and Queen Victoria being thrown in a river by the dead guy's father.
282	* [[spoiler:''Proposition Player'']]: A gambler wins a bet and gets hounded by lots of people trying to get at his winnings, including an overweight man, a hellish woman, and two talking crows.
283	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ThePunisher'']]: A Vietnam vet gets upset when his family's picnic is ruined.
284	** Alternatively: PTSD-afflicted widower/veteran attempts to self-medicate while wearing military-goth-fetish clothing. His self-medication is sometimes enabled by a dude named after a piece of technology (except for the multiple times when the widower/veteran acts like a diva and gets mad at him for stupid reasons). The PTSD-afflicted widower/veteran's mental health never improves. Ever.
285	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody'']]: A buddy comedy about two MacGuffin bonded superheroes and their goat.
286	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/QueenAndCountry'']]: A spy deals with job stress by drinking.
287	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheQuestion (1987)'']]: A journalist/gambler examines various philosophies after a near death experience.
288	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/RapunzelsRevenge'']]: Long-haired ActionGirl and her wacky sidekick team up to take down an EvilOverlord in a fantasy Old West setting.
289	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/Red2003'']]: An old guy shoots a bunch of his former co-workers while talking about the mistakes that were made in the cold war. It has [[InNameOnly almost nothing]] to do with the movie they made of it.
290	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/RedRobin'']]: A teenager in denial about his stepdad's death runs away from home and fights assassins. [[spoiler:Turns out he's correct.]]
291	* [[spoiler:''RexLibris'']]: A look at the daily life of a librarian.
292	* [[spoiler:''Rocketship Rodents'']]: All-male FunnyAnimal crew have erotic ComicStrip/FlashGordon-esque adventures in space, watch equally HoYay-loaded ''Series/DoctorWho'' parody.
293	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/Ronin1983'']]: A samurai's master is killed in a whore house. Samurai comes back to life [[spoiler:but not really]] in the future and fights his master's killer with a science babe.
294	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'']]: Five teenagers have a spat with their parents and run away from home.
295	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'']]: A pistol-packing dog and rabbit annoy everyone they come across.
296	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'']]: EmoKid breaks out of prison, gets his jewelry off some weirdos, gets into trouble thanks to a PrettyBoy and tries to get his sister to accept him.
297	** Or: A depressed workaholic stages an elaborate suicide. His family doesn't really care.
298	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre'']]: An insomniac tries to fight crimes that are mostly incest related.
299	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SavageAvengers'']]: A group of very marketable edgy characters form an edgy team that has a name that sounds like a parody of itself.
300	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SavageDragon'']]: A green strong guy becomes a police officer and fights supervillains and monsters. [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore There is no Status Quo]].
301	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'']]: A guy from Toronto falls in love with a girl from New York and decides to prove his love for her by systematically killing everyone else who ever loved her. It's a comedy.
302	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'']]: Legendary hero turns his back on all of his ideals and tries to rule the world.
303	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SecretSix (2008)'']]: A hitman, a {{bifauxnen}} lesbian, a recovering drug addict, a dominatrix banshee, a feral animal activist, and an insane contortionist try to make money. And they eat eggs.
304	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'']]: A tough old man recruits a bunch of youngsters who nobody's ever heard of before to fight terrorists.
305	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheSentry'']]: SupermanSubstitute with emotional problems.
306	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'']]: A team of superheroes who never actually meet fight to save the world from fairies.
307	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}''/Captain Marvel]]: Orphan kid inadvertently crushes an old man to death in an abandoned subway tunnel, and becomes a champion for Good as a result.
308	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SheHulk'']]: The second-strongest member of the Avengers becomes an attorney and participates in lengthy superhuman court proceedings.
309	** Or: Woman turns green after blood transfusion.
310	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'']]: A fat shark, with a naggy wife, converses with a misanthropic turtle and JerkAss Hermit Crab who's the mayor.
311	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'']]: A political exile loses his job and complains loquaciously about the foolishness of the residents of his new location.
312	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SinCity'']]: The adventures of a collection of psychopaths in a dark city composed entirely of grimy back alleys and populated entirely by prostitutes, ''other'' psychopaths and FilmNoir cliches.
313	* [[spoiler:''The Sinister Man'']]: A JerkAss makes people's lives miserable.
314	** [[spoiler:''The Sinister Woman'']]: A complete bitch makes people's lives miserable.
315	* [[spoiler:''Six-Gun Gorilla'']]: An out-of-work librarian and his imaginary friend bring an end to a civil war after becoming reality-TV stars.
316	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SkyDoll'']]: A [[SexBot clockwork mannequin]] wonders about [[DoAndroidsDream the nature of her existence.]] ''We'' wonder if [[DevelopmentHell the next issue will ever come out.]]
317	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Sleepwalker}}'']]: Alien from another dimension gets trapped in the mind of a human college student, and manifests in our world to fight crime when the human sleeps.
318	* [[spoiler:''Snarked!'']]: A pair of beach-bums living in a world inspired by ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' get dragged into helping two bossy kids look for a long-lost relative.
319	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'']]: Man gets a new job, and frequently battles [[TheLegionsOfHell co-workers]] and people from [[RageAgainstTheHeavens a rival company]]. His main rival moonlights as a [[MonsterClown clown]].
320	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SpiderGirl'']]: Teenager tries running the family business, finds it's harder than she thought. Sometimes dad comes back and helps out.
321	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SpiderMan'']]: Nerdy journalist fights crime with the help of a radioactive spider and his own brand of super-glue.
322	** OR Nerdy teenager gets superpowers in a lab accident, spends rest of life getting crapped on for it.
323	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/KravensLastHunt'']]: Hunter gets bored with life, becomes superhero, then kills himself.
324	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'']]: Nerd encounters other nerd. This complicates both of their lives.
325	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SpiderIsland'']]: New York City becomes Spider-Man. Then Man-Spiders.
326	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/EndsOfTheEarth'']]: Multi-armed scientist threatens Earth with satellites. Nerd becomes CrazyPrepared to fight him off.
327	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'']]: Scientist hijacks nerd's body, thinks he can do better than him. Comes off as a JerkAss.
328	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'']]: TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether hunts multiverse-based nerds. Nerds (and other people) team up to save themselves.
329	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SpiderManLovesMaryJane'']]: A teenage girl nurses a crush on a boy whose name she doesn't know (although maybe she does) whilst having to deal with high school and the complicated relationships she has with her best friends.
330	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'']]: Two groups of secret agents GambitPileup each other to death. The presence of a woman makes them TooDumbToLive.
331	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Squee}}'']]: The story of a little boy who is the neighbor of a homicidal maniac, has neglectful parents, and his only friends are a talking teddy bear that is a "Trauma sponge" and the son of Satan.
332	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/StarmanDCComics'']]: An antiques collector tries to impress his father by taking on his brother's old job.
333	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Static}}'']]: Teenager in Detroit gains electrical super powers and fights crime while learning that [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife being a superhero makes life harder and strains relationships]].
334	* [[spoiler:''Manga/SteadyBeat'']]: Girl discovers her sister is a lesbian and it turns out the world has more ghey people than you think. She meets a hot Jewish guy who hits on her except he doesn't.
335	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'']]: AmbiguouslyGay Artist pines after her [[UglyCute fat-ass]] roommate who's being stalked by her {{Jerkass}} CasanovaWannabe lawyer ex-boyfriend (Who dumped her 'cause she [[UnresolvedSexualTension wouldn't put out]]). Meanwhile the DoggedNiceGuy spends nearly ''ten freaking years'' chasing after the Artist, who most certainly DoesNotLikeMen. Worth the time to read it? You tell me.
336	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'']]: Things go wrong with a federal prison's work release program.
337	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'']]: Depending on version:
338	** The adventures of a superhero during his childhood and teen years, as he protects his small Midwestern hometown from an absurd number of alien invasions, robberies, and villains. Also part of a team of teenage superheroes that operate 1000 years in the future.
339	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/Superboy1994'']]: The adventures of the clone of a superhero and said superhero's archenemy. Said clone fights crime.
340	** [[spoiler:[[Characters/SupermanJonathanSamuelKent Jonathan Samuel Kent]]]]: The adventures of the son of a superhero and a newspaper reporter, as he fights crime.
341	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'']]: Teenager Superman with tits, skirt and a ton of issues tries to prove that she is her own person.
342	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/Supergirl1982'']]: She does. And then ''[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths she gets killed and erased from history'']].
343	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'']]: ... And then she returns. Or another version of her.
344	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'']]: Lonely teenager doesn't appear to get along well with her cousin or with anybody.
345	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SupergirlRebirth'']]: After her cousin is gone, she has to put up with overbearing bosses, judgemental schoolmates and questionable parents.
346	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959'']]: A middle-aged man meets his long-lost teenager cousin.
347	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DemonSpawn'']]: Short-tempered photographer is harassed by crazy lady brandishing a sharp match.
348	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'']]: Loner, emo teen Supergirl decides that she's had it and becomes an avatar of rage.
349	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'']]: A girl meets another girl - who she shares her name with - and sends her back home.
350	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/Supergirl1972'']]: Young woman goes back to college and finds that dating sucks.
351	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SupergirlBeingSuper'']]: Teenager girl finds zits and pimples are the least of her worries.
352	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'']]: Thirteen-year-old girl goes to school.
353	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'']]: In her flight after a very large bug, a crazy girl bumps into her saner twin who helps her swat the aforementioned bug away.
354	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Supergod}}'']]: Various {{Mad Scientist}} creations -- among them Robot Krishna and Giant Space Mushroom Man -- feud amongst themselves while one of the {{Mad Scientist}}s rants about religion.
355	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'']]: Orphaned immigrant gets a job as an investigative journalist and works with a fellow reporter to expose corruption and injustice. Though he mostly gets the job done outside his working hours.
356	** Ayn Rand totally has an orgasm over a guy with his underpants on the outside.
357	** [[spoiler:Lex Luthor]]: A bald man who fights a metal-associated survivor of a holocaust (who is sometimes [[{{Superdickery}} a jerk]]).
358	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman'']]: Alien keels over after fight with a [[GenericDoomsdayVillain barely developed thing]], four [[{{Expy}} expies]] show up to replace him.
359	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/KryptoniteNevermore'']]: Flying Hercules gets harassed by a pile of sand.
360	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'']]: A woman tries to improve her beloved cousin's deteriorating mental health with lies and gaslighting.
361	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/WarWorld'']]: A bully steals a really big ball and vandalizes the neighborhood until a guy and his cousin bust his toy.
362	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac'']]: An old man likes collecting lifelike mockups.
363	** [[spoiler:"ComicBook/SupermanVsMuhammadAli"]]: Aliens force the immigrant to fight [[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli heavyweight boxing champion]] to decide who will move onto another boxing match. The fate of the world depends on this.
364	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'']]: Journalist and photographer travel around a bit while they look for two green-suited loonies.
365	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/SupermanSmashesTheKlan'']]: Socially awkward Chinese-American girl helps an alien fight bigotry and unlock new powers.
366	* [[spoiler:''The Sword'']]: A family complains to their neighbors about the amount of noise they are making at a party. This leads to a millennia-long blood feud that ultimately leads to both families killing each other off.
367	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'']]: The mastermind behind ComicBook/DarkEmpire teams up with the author of the Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy books to flesh out the text pages of ComicBook/DarkEmpire.
368	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TeenTitans'']]: A star of an ice pun film, a skank alien, an angsty robot, a child of a demon, a brunette amazon, a green skinned prankster and Nebraska boy gather in an elaborate clubhouse.
369	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TinyTitans'']]: Young sidekicks go to elementary school.
370	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TeenTitansKamiGarcia'']]: Superpowered teenagers deal with their personal issues while being hunted by a divorced war veteran.
371	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage'']]: Four unusual looking teenagers live in the sewers of New York City with their adoptive dad. This dad teaches his kids how to take revenge on a guy who wronged him several years ago.
372	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheThanosImperative'']]: A team of cosmic superheroes try to stop their counterparts from an alternate universe from making it so that everybody gets to live forever.
373	* [[spoiler:''Therefore Repent'']]: A couple survives the Rapture only to discover that all the Christians that thought they were being bodily taken up to heaven have suffocated to death and now form an orbital ring of corpses.
374	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'']]: Confidence trick is dropped once the involved end up liking their new jobs.
375	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheTick'']]: The adventures of an escapee from a mental institution and a bored accountant.
376	* [[spoiler:''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'']]: Freakishly talented, seemingly ageless guy goes everywhere with a hairy old drunk and a dog.
377	** [[spoiler:''The Calculus Affair'']]: An entire nation conspires against a reporter and a deaf old man and loses.
378	* [[spoiler:''Tovarich'']]: The actions of a {{Dirty Communist\|s}} MagnificentBastard.
379	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'']]: A drug addict attempts to make the world a better place by swearing a lot and shooting people. The president is not pleased.
380	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TrinityWar'']]: A manipulative EvilBrit and his social club trick three groups of heroes into fighting over a woman's box.
381	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl'']]: A computer science major with the proportional strength, speed, and agility of a squirrel (and ability to talk to said animals) becomes a superheroine capable of defeating A-list villains.
382	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool'']]: Girl enters her favorite comic book, decides to kill and explode things [[ItAmusedMe for the lulz]]. Based on a cover gag that turned popular with cosplayers.
383	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'']]: A FunnyAnimal version of [[JidaiGeki Feudal Japan]] where the hero is a rabbit who is tougher than most.
384	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/VForVendetta'']]: A psycho declares war on the government. He may or may not be right to do so.
385	** Alternately: Crazy guy dresses up in a purple wig, Guy Fawkes mask and BadassCape and gallivants around London talking like an eccentric English professor and [[StuffBlowingUp blowing stuff up]].
386	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheVision2015'']]: A suburban housewife kicks ass and takes names while her husband is at work. Alternately: After a prior failed marriage, a man just wants a happy family and a house in the suburbs. It isn't quite that easy.
387	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'']]: People attempt to defy mortality. [[AnyoneCanDie It rarely works.]]
388	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'']]: A group of really screwed-up losers investigate a murder whilst a big blue naked man contemplates the nature of time and space. Then [[spoiler:a giant Space Squid kills most of New York]].
389	** Alternately: Washed-up former celebrities deal with their sexual identities on the eve of the apocalypse.
390	** OR, a group of people have fun playing superhero, until a real superhero shows up and ruins everything.
391	** OR, guy spends twenty years cooking elaborate seafood dish, invites friends over for party. They arrive late.
392	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/We3'']]: Three weapons specialists leave their current job. Their bosses aren't happy about it.
393	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/WhenTheWindBlows'']]: [[{{Expy}} Your grandparents]] diligently prepare to survive WorldWarIII, then slowly die.
394	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'']]: NYC cop destroys crime and clothing with help from her magical bling, then is knocked up by a supernatural mafioso.
395	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'']]: Amnesiac from Canada travels the world, admires the sights and sounds, and has a drink with his Cajun friend every once in a while.
396	** OR: Cranky, old man beats people up during his downtime.
397	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/WonderWoman'']]: A bondage enthusiast hailing from a society composed entirely of (presumably) lesbians attempts to bring peace to the world by beating people up and subjecting them to her slightly kinky tie-up games.
398	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/XMen'']]: A bald old man in a wheelchair who likes watching teenagers sweat founds a school for people with genetic abnormalities. They fly everywhere in a supersonic jet and fight giant robots, a fat guy with a big appetite, and a magnetic Holocaust survivor. Or: a school principal tells his minority students they can improve their reputations by beating up others in their ethnic group.
399	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/NewXMen'']]: A vomiting woman, a self-loathing birdman, a Chinese immigrant with a helmet, and a French assassin all help a legitimate school fight crime.
400	** [[spoiler:''ComicBook/XMen2019'']]: Characters talk politics and philosophy in between pages upon pages of data entries.
401	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'']]: The only guy in town and his monkey are dragged all the way around the world by a cloning expert and a secret agent so secret she doesn't have a name.
402	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'']]: An angry black super soldier, a sassy archer, a gay reality warper, his alien boyfriend, a robot with emotions, and a superhero's daughter cause chaos (often unintentionally).
403	** Second series: The sassy archer, the gay reality warper with his alien boyfriend, an angry lesbian FlyingBrick, an alien blond guy, and a black genius are trolled by their god of chaos teammate, who fails at evil at the most unexpected times.
404	* [[spoiler:''ComicBook/YoungJustice'']]: A geeky ninja, a KidAnova clone, a boy with the world's shortest attention span, an amnesiac ghost, a girl with super strength, an archer with an overbearing mom, and a robot hang out in a mountain and have wacky adventures.
405	* [[spoiler:''Zerogirl'']]: An outcast teenager has a crush on her school counselor and fights square people with circles and blue slime that leaks from her feet.
406	* [[spoiler:''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'']]: Perpetual teenager whines intermittently on how it sucks to be 15.
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