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openLooking for a comic I read with a great commentary on the White Savior complex. Print Comic
I remember reading a few pages of a comic at a friend's house which had the following context and dialogue, roughly paraphrased. Main character is a white woman, and the setting was science fiction with an alien tribal race.
Tribe is in trouble, and is facing a powerful enemy. White main character shows up to help.
Tribal woman: "You have come to help us. Have you brought weapons? Are you a trained negotiator? Do you have information on our foe?"
Main character: "Uh... no."
Tribe then proceeds to reject her help. I need it b/c it's a perfect critique of the white savior complex and voluntourism, and I wanted to reference it in a piece I'm doing.
Thanks for any help :)
openSearching for a dark fantasy comic Print Comic
Might have been a western comic, might have been a manhua, either way I don't remember much of it. It definetly wasn't japanese, might have been chinese or korean; I read a print version, the comic itself was pretty dark but had a beautiful art style, not colored; I remember a black-haired girl waking up in some kind of a train with a bunch of monsters (that hate her), who later turn into puppets in an enchanted forest? I couldn't make out most of the plot, but there was also a giant dreamkeeper lady who cried dreams, a guy who wore a cauldron for a hat, also pretty sure some manner of cannibalism was involved. Comic itself went out around 2009, couldn't find anything about it then, same as now. All help is appreciated!
openmain characters fighting Print Comic
I think this was a western comic, but it might have been a manga. Less likely but still possible is some other form of media entirely. I remember there being a scene where two of the main characters are fighting over something one of them did or allowed to happen. One character is really laying into the one who did something (possibly let another character die) while the other guy just takes it, and when bystanders pull him off, the other guy just asks "Why did you stop?" Help me, tropers, you're my only hope!
openManga about a detective kid Print Comic
In the first chapter, the boy solves the mystery of his (classmate?)'s father's suicide, proving it a murder rather than a suicide, commited by a professor in the university the victim worked at. It was also shown at the end of the chapter that the boy turned into a fox when he went to sleep.
openGerman Nintendo comic Print Comic
I just remembered I used to read this german Nintendo comic book or whatever it was when I was little... But alas, I can't for the life of me recall what it was or what its name was. I know it had a comic, but I don't know if it was a comic book or some sort of magazine.
I remember it had two parts:
- One part involved kids using game cartridges or whatever to give themselves superpowers and win at games. I remember two of these: one where they use Yoshi's Cookie (or whatever game it was that had Yoshi in it) to give one of the kids a Yoshi tongue and appetite which made him win a cookie eating contest, and another one where they do the same thing with a Donkey Kong game (making one of the kids highly athletic) which helps them win a basketball game.
- The other part involved a kid using Link's ocarina from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. He first plays Song of Time which makes him very short, and then he plays Epona's Song which makes Epona appear before him. Then there's this... "girl" character (I can't really remember) who dares/challenges the kid to jump over the swing in the playground on Epona. He tries to jump over and... I can't remember what happens next. I think the horse doesn't make it over the swing and falls onto it halfway over, but all I remember is a comic shot of Epona from the front situated right above the swing.
open1910s lesbian (?) comic strip Print Comic
I remember seeing them online. They were likely from the 1910s and the entire joke was two women kissing and taking forever to part from each other while slapstick happens at the end. I don't know if the kissing was platonic or romantic though.
openA shojo comic about a swan prince, or a guy with a swan wing Print Comic
This manga is about a girl who falls in love with a guy, cursed with a swan wing for an arm. Is a shojo manga. Her father, a king I believe, is quite the bishonen. I'm looking for the name, that's all.
openWhat comic is this? Print Comic
I saw a screencap of it a year or two ago. It's been circling online.
It was either DC or Marvel, but most likely Marvel. All I remember was that it involved a female character liking cat videos.
openA scifi comic from several years ago. Print Comic
There was a scifi comic like, 5 years back. There was a female lead who always wore a bubble helmet and I remember at least 3 issues. The thing that stands out is in the second or third issue there was a robot body that had George W Bush's head in a jar on top. Really want to figure out what this is.
openStrange Times at ??? High Print Comic
This comic I saw years ago whose story I wasn't properly following at the time, was some kind of coming of age/high school sexual comedy as told by some old man in a diner after two visiting teenagers squashed his flies and bring to mind "dead lovers" from the legend he tells.
The one thing I remember best was that these two lovers come back from the dead for some kind of revenge at the climax where others quirky characters in the legend also appear.
openSilver Age Superman Story Print Comic
Our "Bruce Wayne Held Hostage" page has this in the list.
" A variation occurred in a Silver Age Superman story. During an attempted heist at a museum, some goons take a bystander hostage and force Superman to help them. Only the "Superman" they have is a lookalike in a Superman costume on his way to his son's school, and the "hostage" is Clark Kent, who they grabbed before he could change clothes. The real Superman ends up having to use his powers to covertly make his kidnappers believe the fake one is the real deal until he can get him safely away. "
Anyone know which story/issue that was? it sounds like a good read, but google has failed me.
EDIT: pasted wrong one; fixed
Edited by lalalei2001openSilver Age Superman story Print Comic
Our "Bruce Wayne Held Hostage" page has this in the list.
"A variation occurred in a Silver Age Superman story. During an attempted heist at a museum, some goons take a bystander hostage and force Superman to help them. Only the "Superman" they have is a lookalike in a Superman costume on his way to his son's school, and the "hostage" is Clark Kent, who they grabbed before he could change clothes. The real Superman ends up having to use his powers to covertly make his kidnappers believe the fake one is the real deal until he can get him safely away. "
Anyone know which story/issue that was? it sounds like a good read, but google has failed me.
openComic panel needs context Print Comic
Does anyone know the origin of this panel: [1]. Which didn't embed, but the link seems to work. It's a comic panel of a woman reading in bed, with the devil bursting in the window shrieking " HOOOOYARRRRRGH!! It's me, Satan!" "So?"
Edited by DalillamaopenArchie comic wit Jughead in eating contest? Print Comic
There's one Archie comic where Jughead (he's the Big Eater with the funny hat) is in an eating contest but the girls are feeding him as much as possible before the contest, however, he still wins. What's that one called? P.S. I heard it has a girl called Jane Doe in it.
openManga about a woman who's boyfriend sold her organs...(I might have some plot elements wrong) Print Comic
...and she has to work for some people (cyborgs?) who's language she doesn't understand to earn them back. (I only read the 2nd volume so I don't know the entire plot.) She carries around a doll that talks to her, and I think the doll contains her brain or her heart or something, and I think is missing an eye but I could be wrong. And she's not supposed to talk to the doll but it's the only thing she can communicate with (I think.) During the errand/mission she's given, she comes across a place where there's preserved organs (as in being kept functional,) and the doll warns her not to destroy any because some might belong to her. The plot and art style are pretty dark from what I can remember.
openSpiky Batman Villain Print Comic
I'm a sucker for minor Batman villains and I noticed one in a flashback panel when Batman fights Bane in Part 11 of Knightfall that I wish to identify.
The villain wears either black or dark blue and wears a mask revealing only his eyes with spikes around the face. A long, whip-like protrusion on the top of the head appears to be made of something akin to barbed wire and is slashing one of the prongs of Batman's cowl in the panel. He also wears spiked gloves.
The flashback panel is most likely based on a previous comic and is taking place in a graveyard.
openSupergirl Comic Print Comic
I found that picture from a super girl comic where she says 'that's strange' and the other woman asks what's strange. Then Kara says 'My X-ray vision is picking up some weird plastics in your–" I really love the art style and it's such a fun sense of humor that I was wondering what artist it was from/ what issue number it was. If anyone knows, I'd really appreciate it.
openspiderman Print Comic
can't remember the name but it was a series of comics with a blond haired kid who in each issue pretended to be a different one of his favorite superheroes and at the end he met them
openWhat is this comic? Print Comic
So, I remember reading a Comicvine article about this comic. However, I can't find the article or remember the title. It was a social satire comic. The premise was that people would announce they would kill themselves at a certain date and soak in the fame and publicity until then. It may or may not have been part of a fictional reality show.
All I remember is a chapter involving glasses that allows wearers to see red strings of fate and special nail polish that allows the wearer to cut them and retie them to change relationships. One of the male characters might have had a name similar to Ryu...