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openBlack astronaut finds alien race war Print Comic
I'm trying to remember the name of that classic comic where an astronaut finds the remnants of an alien civilization that destroyed itself in a race war, then as he's reflecting on it in his ship he takes off his helmet, and the reader sees for the first time that he's black? The one where the CCA tried to make them change him to white in a reprint, but the editor threatened to go to the press?
openGarfield strip Print Comic
Looking for a specific Garfield strip where Garfield pushes a vase off the table and Jon angrily yells at him that he doesn't even know what he just did, but it turns out Garfield actually knows more about the vase than Jon does.
openTrying to find a comic Print Comic
I'm trying to find a comic I read some years ago that I can't recall the title of. It was about a group of girls living in a coastal town with a secret(some kind of treasure) history type of local legend. One of the girls who works at a local tourist trap about the treasure gets mugged in relation to the treasure. The cover of the first issue was the girls with the group mascot a german shepard with the town in the background.
openSuper villain jail Print Comic
There was this comic I found at the library about a guy who found himself in a supervillain prison. It wasn't part of the Marvel universe or the DC universe. As a matter of fact, I believe that it wasn't taking place in any pre-established comics universe. I didn't read more than a few pages at the time, but the general vibe of it was pretty dark stuff.
Edited by MichaelKatsuroopenHorror Comic about a cursed horseshoe Print Comic
I have vague memories of reading a summary on the wiki of a horror comic revolving around a cursed horseshoe which makes its bearers immortal while giving them terrible luck and can't be discarded. I can't find it on any relevant trope pages like Clingy McGuffin, Immortality Inducer, Fate Worse than Death, etc
Nevermind, found it by looking at Clingy McGuffin's related page. It's Home Sick Pilots, which doesn't appear to have been crosswicked at all
Edited by LibraryseraphopenComic with a weird god? Print Comic
Anyone remember a comic featuring a bizarre Cosmic Entity that looked like a giant technicolor bodybuilder with the "Illuminati pyramid" for a head? I used to see the one page showing it posted on /co/ a long time ago, but I can't remember the title of what it was from, if I ever learned it.
openSci Fi mouse thing Print Comic
You know I remember reading this comic about some random mouse in space. He goes to recover some random thing[involving black holes] with a random swan and a traitor agent. His dad gave him some crystal necklace[the dad was killed]. Then the swan and mouse go somewhere important and a black hole appears. Then the mouse falls into a black hole and harnesses its energy to destroy some evil company's ships. The swan then does stuff with the black hole. It's like danger mouse in space I guess.
Edited by BlitzyTheTroperopen(Solved quickly) In what page of PS238 does Victor Von Fogg turn the mayor into a lamp? Print Comic
So, I recently learned about PS 238 and heard that there was a part where one villain turned the mayor into a lamp. I know it's somewhere in issues 46 to (I think) 51, but I don't have the time to read them all. Can anyone find that part for me?
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenWhat's the name of the comic where Mickey and Goofy meets Gustave Eiffel Print Comic
I have a Mickey Mouse/Mickey & Goofy comic on my mind, and I was hoping someone could help me identify it. It's about Mickey/Mickey & Goofy, when they travel back in time to meet Gustave Eiffel.
They used a time machine created (probably) by Dr./Professor Spike Marlin. But when they arrived and met Gustave, it turned out that Gustave did not really want to build a tower, but a rocket launch. But in the end it became a tower anyway, a tower he hoped would reach the moon.
I also remember Gustave's wife, a domestically powerful and dominant woman who was negative about his ideas. But I don't remember much more about her. By the way, I read the series in Swedish, and hope to find it in the same language. Although it was likely published in Italian or English, and later dubbed to Swedish. Finding it in any language would be a start at least!
By the way, I shouldn't be surprised if this comic is a part of "The Time Machine" series, by Massimo De Vita.
If you know anything about this series, such as the title, paperback / newspaper issue it was included in, I would be extremely grateful, as I have been looking for it for a long time.
Thanks you!
openThor comic about multiple Hammers Print Comic
I read it years ago and all I can remember is that multiple versions of Thor's hammer dropped on earth and Hulk Mabye got one
openSolved: French? Language comic of the early 2000s Print Comic
I’m pretty sketchy on the details, but I seem to remember reading a scanlated comic that I believe I read on Mangafox at the time. I think it was originally in French and had a supernatural school setting, a sort of Hogwarts-sequel feel, but if it were for college age students. There were lots of characters but I think one of the main characters was a werewolf. Updates dried up around an arc that involved the school having to close/ some sort of crisis. At the time, I felt like it was a unique story and take on the genre and very contemporary, urban youth in aesthetic.
I believe some characters were dating each other and having more “adult” relations, but I don’t think it was a smut comic; just that the characters were of the age where that is just a normal aspect of relationships, so I think the intended audience skewed higher than 12-16. I can’t quite recall as it’s been so long, but I think it’s was a print comic bc I remember running across a very marked up graphic novel of the series on Amazon in the 2012-4 year range. It wasn’t in English, but I would have gotten it if I had the money back then:/ C’est la vie, as they say.
I could be wrong about some of the details: I used to frequent a lot of scanlator group websites back then, so it’s possible I read it on a defunct website reader. I don’t seem to have bookmarked it on Mangafox, but I think it was deleted due to copyright reasons, so I may have removed it afterwards. Any assistance would be appreciated!
Edit: I believe it was Freaks’ Squeele. I randomly found it on the Franco Belgian page! Looking at the tropes page made me feel more certain and finding it posted on another website and taking a look at the main art rather than cover art cinched it.
Edited by JustneedtoaskaquestionopenComic book somewhere cold (solved!) Print Comic
There's this graphic novel I found at the library. It's about somebody who goes to the North Pole, or maybe the South Pole—somewhere really cold, at any rate. One volume long, I recall, and it's not Whiteout.
EDIT: Never mind; I found it, and it's called British Ice.
Edited by MichaelKatsuroopenShort comic by Alan Moore (not sure if author) with blank faces? Print Comic
I found it once by a fluke and can’t locate it again, but I think it might’ve been by Alan Moore and a couple others. Basically it was about how the current regime somewhere didn’t like LGBT people existing, so they decided to purge out all references to it in history by literally going back in time and erasing history. They found that they had to keep changing more and more, but eventually succeeded by making everyone exactly the same or something like that. The narrator of the story takes off a mask (?) at the end and reveals that he and everyone else has smooth blank faces. I really can’t remember much else, but I’m fairly certain of what I do remember. Thank for the help!
openSlice Of Life Graphic Novel (SOLVED) Print Comic
So, I'm looking for this slice-of-life graphic novel that I saw at a book fair. I think it has "Moon" in the title.
So, the protagonist is this girl (who might be Asian, I don't remember). She meets and befriends this other girl (who would be Asian if the protagonist is) who's nicknamed "Moon" or something.
Eventually, "Moon" confides in the protagonist that, late at night, she has visions of "celestial beings". But it turns out that "Moon" has a brain tumor and has been hallucinating.
I clearly remember a scene where "Moon" just collapses during some sort of party, and then it cuts to a doctor saying that "Moon" has a brain tumor that was located near the back of her head. It was originally just pressing on her visual lobe, but it's grown bigger and that's why "Moon" collapsed. Then the doc says "she must've been having seizures this whole time, and nobody's noticed..." and the protagonist, who was the only one "Moon" told about the "celestial beings", realizes that her keeping it a secret has hurt her friend...
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenSome rabbit nicknamed "Dumb Ears" Print Comic
There were these little comic books I used to check out at my elementary school library. There was a group of friends: a rabbit, a turtle, and another one that I don't remember. The turtle always called the rabbit "Dumb Ears", and I think the turtle's father (or grandfather, I don't remember) owned a pizzeria. There was one comic where a rival pizzeria with extremely fast service opened up across the street, and the place was run by evil ninjas, and I think they used some kind of dark magic for their pizza. That's all I can remember.
openComic with Huge Monster (solved) Print Comic
I searched "gross exaggerations" and I found the comics from Milt Gross. This might have been one of those comics, but I found nothing. In it, we see a huge sad green monster (think a huge yak-like creature) with a jester cap and I think a clown nose, and I think a young girl might be standing in front of him or looking up at him, or maybe it was a man (cannot remember the comic), but I vaguely remember the caption:
"Gross exaggeration" (or something to that context)
Does anyone know what I am talking about? I would appreciate any help, thank you.
Edited by thestormtrooperopenComic about a man who gets thinner no matter how much he eats? Print Comic
I'm trying to find this comic that started out with a story about this older gentleman who lived in the city and was suddenly struck with a supernatural hunger. He runs up to a burger stand and orders several burgers, eating them all in one sitting and then running off to a restaurant where he orders a ton of food, but no matter how much he eats he just gets thinner and thinner. Eventually he becomes so desperately hungry he jumps at a lady and tries to bite her leg, but then quickly dies starved and emaciated.
I can't seem to find what comic it was- I feel like it was a Sandman comic for some reason. All I know is that this little story was at the beginning of a much larger comic overall. I know it wasn't an adaption of Stephen King's "Thinner"; the plot is far shorter and it's implied that some greater power is at work through the narration boxes.
openA graphic novel series that ive forgot the name of Print Comic
There were these kids and there was this device that resembled an old fashion movie projector that makes a portal to another world and there were these shadow creatures that can kill you by touching you and the only way to kill them is with light and i remember a scene with sand whales. Also the main character got sick at some point and her grandpa knows alot about this world and they thought he was dead for a while. Also the main character has a clone that according to her grandpa "is the source of her sickness"Does anyone remember what its called?
openMarvel Comic Print Comic
I’m trying to find a Marvel Comic Book. It was the first one I ever had as a kid (not sure how I got it though) so it has some sentimental value but I lost it at some point when I was little. I remember it had Spider-Man, the Hulk, and I think Captain America fighting the Leader on a Submarine. It was also one of the older ones where they put the featured characters’ heads on the top left corner of the comic cover. Ring any bells? I really wish I could set notifications for these posts.
I'm picking "print comic" since that's basically what manga is.
So, a comment on Pro ZD's "Tokomo Chairem" video has this to say: "funny thing is, there's this BL oneshot Manga where this guy is in love with his ventilator, it was kinda sad" Does anyone know what manga they're talking about? (Also, what does "BL" stand for?)
Solved: It's called "Hot & Cold". "Ventilator" was actually a poorly-translated way of saying "Air Conditioner"
Edited by sRAMrelevrat