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* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': The most outlandish and strange story ever would be "Chester Williams: American Cop" from Creator/MarkMillar's run, an out-of-continuity satire on right-wing politics where NewAgeRetroHippie Chester Williams has an epiphany that leads to him becoming a conservative police officer who turns his back entirely on defending the environment. The weirder highlights include Swamp Thing [[OutOfCharacterMoment being easily cowed into submission]] when he confronts Chester over his change in attitude, Chester [[CureYourGays getting his lesbian ex-girlfriend Liz Tremayne to come back to him just by kissing her]] and the story ending with Chester successfully running for President.
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* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': The most outlandish and strange story ever would be "Chester Williams: American Cop" from Creator/MarkMillar's run, an out-of-continuity satire on right-wing politics where NewAgeRetroHippie Chester Williams has an epiphany that leads to him becoming a conservative police officer who turns his back entirely on defending the environment.environment and being progressive. The weirder highlights include Swamp Thing [[OutOfCharacterMoment being easily cowed into submission]] when he confronts Chester over his change in attitude, Chester [[CureYourGays getting his lesbian ex-girlfriend Liz Tremayne to come back to him just by kissing her]] and the story ending with Chester successfully running for President.
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* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'': The most outlandish and strange story ever would be "Chester Williams: American Cop" from Creator/MarkMillar's run, an out-of-continuity satire on right-wing politics where NewAgeRetroHippie Chester Williams has an epiphany that leads to him becoming a conservative police officer who turns his back entirely on defending the environment. The weirder highlights include Swamp Thing [[OutOfCharacterMoment being easily cowed into submission]] when he confronts Chester over his change in attitude, Chester [[CureYourGays getting his lesbian ex-girlfriend Liz Tremayne to come back to him just by kissing her]] and the story ending with Chester successfully running for President.
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** ''Uncanny X-Men'' #153, the classic "Kitty's FairyTale", in which Comicbook/{{Kitty|Pryde}} regaled young [[Comicbook/{{Magik}} Illyana Rasputin]] with a made-up FairyTale casting herself and ComicBook/{{Colossus}} as heroic pirates, and other members of the X-Men as their allies to rescue the Phoenix Genie. Some see this issue as a coda to the Claremont/Byrne era, as it shows Kitty fully assimilating with the team to the point where she can gently rib her teammates for their peccadilloes (as the story progresses the rest of the X-Men listen in and enjoy a good laugh), and even give the Scott and Jean in her story the happy ending which they were denied, making it an in-universe BreatherEpisode.
** Issue #44 took place during a story arc where the team battled the Brotherhood of Evil and had a {{Crossover}} with ''Comicbook/TheAvengers''. However, this specific issue instead featured a largely unrelated plot where Angel battled Red Raven, a forgotten [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] hero. The story then veered off into a subplot about Red Raven having to prevent the return of the {{Winged Humanoid}}s who raised him, before Angel ultimately left to continue his search for the Avengers. The only real explanation is that Roy Thomas, a well known Golden Age fan, wanted to feature one of his boyhood heroes in one of the books he was writing.
** Issue #44 took place during a story arc where the team battled the Brotherhood of Evil and had a {{Crossover}} with ''Comicbook/TheAvengers''. However, this specific issue instead featured a largely unrelated plot where Angel battled Red Raven, a forgotten [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] hero. The story then veered off into a subplot about Red Raven having to prevent the return of the {{Winged Humanoid}}s who raised him, before Angel ultimately left to continue his search for the Avengers. The only real explanation is that Roy Thomas, a well known Golden Age fan, wanted to feature one of his boyhood heroes in one of the books he was writing.
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** ''Uncanny X-Men'' ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #153, the classic "Kitty's FairyTale", in which Comicbook/{{Kitty|Pryde}} ComicBook/{{Kitty|Pryde}} regaled young [[Comicbook/{{Magik}} [[ComicBook/{{Magik}} Illyana Rasputin]] with a made-up FairyTale casting herself and ComicBook/{{Colossus}} as heroic pirates, and other members of the X-Men as their allies to rescue the Phoenix Genie. Some see this issue as a coda to the Claremont/Byrne era, as it shows Kitty fully assimilating with the team to the point where she can gently rib her teammates for their peccadilloes (as the story progresses the rest of the X-Men listen in and enjoy a good laugh), and even give the Scott and Jean in her story the happy ending which they were denied, making it an in-universe BreatherEpisode.
**Issue ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #44 took place during a story arc where the team battled the Brotherhood of Evil and had a {{Crossover}} with ''Comicbook/TheAvengers''.''ComicBook/TheAvengers''. However, this specific issue instead featured a largely unrelated plot where Angel battled Red Raven, a forgotten [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] hero. The story then veered off into a subplot about Red Raven having to prevent the return of the {{Winged Humanoid}}s who raised him, before Angel ultimately left to continue his search for the Avengers. The only real explanation is that Roy Thomas, a well known Golden Age fan, wanted to feature one of his boyhood heroes in one of the books he was writing.
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* ''ComicBook/InfinityWars2018'': The Infinity Warps, taking time out from the series's main premise of everyone fighting over the Infinity Stones to instead focus on mashed-up versions of various characters and their escapades. They're generally held to be the best part of the crossover.
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** ''Uncanny X-Men'' #153, the classic "Kitty's FairyTale", in which Comicbook/{{Kitty|Pryde}} regaled young [[Comicbook/{{Magyk}} Illyana Rasputin]] with a made-up FairyTale casting herself and ComicBook/{{Colossus}} as heroic pirates, and other members of the X-Men as their allies to rescue the Phoenix Genie. Some see this issue as a coda to the Claremont/Byrne era, as it shows Kitty fully assimilating with the team to the point where she can gently rib her teammates for their peccadilloes (as the story progresses the rest of the X-Men listen in and enjoy a good laugh), and even give the Scott and Jean in her story the happy ending which they were denied, making it an in-universe BreatherEpisode.
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** ''Uncanny X-Men'' #153, the classic "Kitty's FairyTale", in which Comicbook/{{Kitty|Pryde}} regaled young [[Comicbook/{{Magyk}} [[Comicbook/{{Magik}} Illyana Rasputin]] with a made-up FairyTale casting herself and ComicBook/{{Colossus}} as heroic pirates, and other members of the X-Men as their allies to rescue the Phoenix Genie. Some see this issue as a coda to the Claremont/Byrne era, as it shows Kitty fully assimilating with the team to the point where she can gently rib her teammates for their peccadilloes (as the story progresses the rest of the X-Men listen in and enjoy a good laugh), and even give the Scott and Jean in her story the happy ending which they were denied, making it an in-universe BreatherEpisode.
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* Creator/{{Marvel}}'s Assistant Editor's Month was a traditional FifthWeekEvent where the assistant editors created bizarre stories that would never be allowed otherwise. Sometimes they also included serious stories. Sometimes they WERE serious stories, thus becoming a Bizarro Episode inside a week of Bizarro Episodes.
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* Creator/{{Marvel}}'s ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': Marvel's Assistant Editor's Month was a traditional FifthWeekEvent where the assistant editors created bizarre stories that would never be allowed otherwise. Sometimes they also included serious stories. Sometimes they WERE serious stories, thus becoming a Bizarro Episode inside a week of Bizarro Episodes.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Has an odd bit where Killer Moth starts asexually reproducing and fills an abandoned YMCA with tiny rude versions of himself that try to eat each other and grow to adulthood in about a week, and start running about Gotham nude attacking people when they're big enough to get out of the pool. This new power of Walker's was never mentioned or used again.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Has ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' has an odd bit where Killer Moth starts asexually reproducing and fills an abandoned YMCA with tiny rude versions of himself that try to eat each other and grow to adulthood in about a week, and start running about Gotham nude attacking people when they're big enough to get out of the pool. This new power of Walker's was never mentioned or used again.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** Usually, when Mr. Mxyzptlk makes an appearance -see ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot''-, Superman is put through bizarre situations which are undone when Mxyzptlk is forced to go back to his dimension.
** ''ComicBook/SuperboyNew52'': Issue #8 is an entire issue of ComicBook/{{Superboy}} fighting ''ComicBook/Gen13'' character Grunge, who in the new universe is a Ravager. There was no build up to this issue, has no bearing on the series proper, it's just Superboy and Grunge fighting as Grunge talks about the qualifications of being a Ravager, and it is never mentioned again.
** Both issues of the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} -- Matrix ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' tie-in, which are written by Keith Giffen, notorious for writing satirical stories about the DC Comics staff, current status quo, and characters.
** Usually, when Mr. Mxyzptlk makes an appearance -see ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlBatgirlPlot''-, Superman is put through bizarre situations which are undone when Mxyzptlk is forced to go back to his dimension.
** ''ComicBook/SuperboyNew52'': Issue #8 is an entire issue of ComicBook/{{Superboy}} fighting ''ComicBook/Gen13'' character Grunge, who in the new universe is a Ravager. There was no build up to this issue, has no bearing on the series proper, it's just Superboy and Grunge fighting as Grunge talks about the qualifications of being a Ravager, and it is never mentioned again.
** Both issues of the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} -- Matrix ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' tie-in, which are written by Keith Giffen, notorious for writing satirical stories about the DC Comics staff, current status quo, and characters.
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* The ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' story ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky'' has two kinds of aliens (an {{Expy}} of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and his Franchise/{{Superman}} Expy bodyguards versus {{Manga}}-like insectoids and robots) suddenly turn up in Ancient Gaul to fight over the right to get the magic potion. And it all of course ends with the "good" aliens erasing everybody's memory of the whole episode. Even within a franchise, where there is plenty of magic and several other fantasy elements, this is generally seen as the weirdest "Astérix" story of them all.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** The comic was always a commercially-friendly strip, that clearly knew what its remit was, and wasn't going to confuse its audience by going beyond that. Which makes the one time that it ''did'' all the more incongruous. In 1989, a multi-strip storyline saw Garfield [[http://www.retrojunk.com/content/article/7218/index/ alone in his apparently long-abandoned house.]] What really makes this strange is that it doesn't use this as a setup to a humorous or "safe" conclusion (as happened during a similar storyline elsewhere), but instead leads to [[spoiler:a strange metaphysical/psychological horror ending where it turns out Garfield himself no longer exists and "wills" Jon and Odie back into "existence" through the power of denial, or madness. And that's it, no further explanation]]. Apparently Jim Davis intended this as a Halloween special, and the strip mirrors the 1976 Italian animation Allegro Non Troppo. Still the most unusual Garfield strip that has ever appeared.
** Much later (and less notable), an October 2008 arc involves one of the characters between Jon, Garfield, Odie, and (apparently) [[CompanionCube Pooky]] having a very strange dream wherein all four of them are [[LEGOBodyParts randomly swapping heads around]] throughout the week. The arc abruptly ended on Thursday of that week [[NoEnding without any of the characters being shown waking up from the dream]] nor whom among them was actually having the dream in the first place (it's left ambiguous who it was between the four) being revealed.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** The comic was always a commercially-friendly strip, that clearly knew what its remit was, and wasn't going to confuse its audience by going beyond that. Which makes the one time that it ''did'' all the more incongruous. In 1989, a multi-strip storyline saw Garfield [[http://www.retrojunk.com/content/article/7218/index/ alone in his apparently long-abandoned house.]] What really makes this strange is that it doesn't use this as a setup to a humorous or "safe" conclusion (as happened during a similar storyline elsewhere), but instead leads to [[spoiler:a strange metaphysical/psychological horror ending where it turns out Garfield himself no longer exists and "wills" Jon and Odie back into "existence" through the power of denial, or madness. And that's it, no further explanation]]. Apparently Jim Davis intended this as a Halloween special, and the strip mirrors the 1976 Italian animation Allegro Non Troppo. Still the most unusual Garfield strip that has ever appeared.
** Much later (and less notable), an October 2008 arc involves one of the characters between Jon, Garfield, Odie, and (apparently) [[CompanionCube Pooky]] having a very strange dream wherein all four of them are [[LEGOBodyParts randomly swapping heads around]] throughout the week. The arc abruptly ended on Thursday of that week [[NoEnding without any of the characters being shown waking up from the dream]] nor whom among them was actually having the dream in the first place (it's left ambiguous who it was between the four) being revealed.
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* The ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' story ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky'' has two kinds of aliens (an {{Expy}} of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and his Franchise/{{Superman}} ComicBook/{{Superman}} Expy bodyguards versus {{Manga}}-like insectoids and robots) suddenly turn up in Ancient Gaul to fight over the right to get the magic potion. And it all of course ends with the "good" aliens erasing everybody's memory of the whole episode. Even within a franchise, where there is plenty of magic and several other fantasy elements, this is generally seen as the weirdest "Astérix" story of them all. \n* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':\n** The comic was always a commercially-friendly strip, that clearly knew what its remit was, and wasn't going to confuse its audience by going beyond that. Which makes the one time that it ''did'' all the more incongruous. In 1989, a multi-strip storyline saw Garfield [[http://www.retrojunk.com/content/article/7218/index/ alone in his apparently long-abandoned house.]] What really makes this strange is that it doesn't use this as a setup to a humorous or "safe" conclusion (as happened during a similar storyline elsewhere), but instead leads to [[spoiler:a strange metaphysical/psychological horror ending where it turns out Garfield himself no longer exists and "wills" Jon and Odie back into "existence" through the power of denial, or madness. And that's it, no further explanation]]. Apparently Jim Davis intended this as a Halloween special, and the strip mirrors the 1976 Italian animation Allegro Non Troppo. Still the most unusual Garfield strip that has ever appeared.\n** Much later (and less notable), an October 2008 arc involves one of the characters between Jon, Garfield, Odie, and (apparently) [[CompanionCube Pooky]] having a very strange dream wherein all four of them are [[LEGOBodyParts randomly swapping heads around]] throughout the week. The arc abruptly ended on Thursday of that week [[NoEnding without any of the characters being shown waking up from the dream]] nor whom among them was actually having the dream in the first place (it's left ambiguous who it was between the four) being revealed.
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* Every year at Kwanzaa, ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' runs a two-week-long StoryArc that involves new, made-up characters doing absolutely ridiculous things that resemble African folktales, with little concern for anything other than being awesomely over-the-top, often toeing the line between RuleOfCool and an outright MindScrew. Past arcs have included [[http://joshreads.com/images/07/01/i070102curtis.jpg a golden, telepathic otter and a magic sandal]] and [[http://joshreads.com/images/0601/i060109curtis.jpg bat-winged bears]], among others. Consensus among fans (or at least among Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon and his followers) is that these are among his best works; he even considers the otter "still the gold standard."
* For the German Club Nintendo comics, ''Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens'' ([[https://imgur.com/gallery/fembZ Super Mario in the Night of Horror]]) was this. Okay, the series was already bordering on the bizarre to begin with, but most others at least have something to do with the source material. This one? Had Mario as Van Helsing leading Link and Kirby through an adventure in their now possessed tower home to defeat Wario and Abigor, the latter of which was a demon from hell. It also features a zombie Princess Peach, [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]] and [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]] as characters and an absolute ton of other things from horror films.
* Issue 8 of ''Comicbook/SuperboyNew52''. It's an entire issue of Superboy fighting Grunge of Comicbook/{{Gen 13}}, who in the new universe is a Ravager. There was no build up to this issue, has no bearing on the series proper, it's just Superboy and Grunge fighting as Grunge talks about the qualifications of being a Ravager, and it is never mentioned again.
* ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} has had a few, such as the time Alice killed the Pointy Haired Boss then ripped another PHB out of a parallel reality to replace him, or the time Scott Adams himself got stuck in the strip, which lead to a parody of Film/TheWizardOfOz.
* For the German Club Nintendo comics, ''Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens'' ([[https://imgur.com/gallery/fembZ Super Mario in the Night of Horror]]) was this. Okay, the series was already bordering on the bizarre to begin with, but most others at least have something to do with the source material. This one? Had Mario as Van Helsing leading Link and Kirby through an adventure in their now possessed tower home to defeat Wario and Abigor, the latter of which was a demon from hell. It also features a zombie Princess Peach, [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]] and [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]] as characters and an absolute ton of other things from horror films.
* Issue 8 of ''Comicbook/SuperboyNew52''. It's an entire issue of Superboy fighting Grunge of Comicbook/{{Gen 13}}, who in the new universe is a Ravager. There was no build up to this issue, has no bearing on the series proper, it's just Superboy and Grunge fighting as Grunge talks about the qualifications of being a Ravager, and it is never mentioned again.
* ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} has had a few, such as the time Alice killed the Pointy Haired Boss then ripped another PHB out of a parallel reality to replace him, or the time Scott Adams himself got stuck in the strip, which lead to a parody of Film/TheWizardOfOz.
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* Every year at Kwanzaa, ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' runs a two-week-long StoryArc that involves new, made-up characters doing absolutely ridiculous things that resemble African folktales, with little concern for anything other than being awesomely over-the-top, often toeing the line between RuleOfCool and an outright MindScrew. Past arcs have included [[http://joshreads.com/images/07/01/i070102curtis.jpg a golden, telepathic otter and a magic sandal]] and [[http://joshreads.com/images/0601/i060109curtis.jpg bat-winged bears]], among others. Consensus among fans (or at least among Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon and his followers) is that these are among his best works; he even considers the otter "still the gold standard."
*''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': For the German Club Nintendo comics, ''Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens'' ([[https://imgur.com/gallery/fembZ Super Mario in the Night of Horror]]) was this. Okay, the series was already bordering on the bizarre to begin with, but most others at least have something to do with the source material. This one? Had Mario as Van Helsing leading Link and Kirby through an adventure in their now possessed tower home to defeat Wario and Abigor, the latter of which was a demon from hell. It also features a zombie Princess Peach, [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]] and [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]] as characters and an absolute ton of other things from horror films.
* Issue 8 of ''Comicbook/SuperboyNew52''. It's an entire issue of Superboy fighting Grunge of Comicbook/{{Gen 13}}, who in the new universe is a Ravager. There was no build up to this issue, has no bearing on the series proper, it's just Superboy and Grunge fighting as Grunge talks about the qualifications of being a Ravager, and it is never mentioned again.
* ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} has had a few, such as the time Alice killed the Pointy Haired Boss then ripped another PHB out of a parallel reality to replace him, or the time Scott Adams himself got stuck in the strip, which lead to a parody of Film/TheWizardOfOz.films.
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* Issue 8 of ''Comicbook/SuperboyNew52''. It's an entire issue of Superboy fighting Grunge of Comicbook/{{Gen 13}}, who in the new universe is a Ravager. There was no build up to this issue, has no bearing on the series proper, it's just Superboy and Grunge fighting as Grunge talks about the qualifications of being a Ravager, and it is never mentioned again.
* ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} has had a few, such as the time Alice killed the Pointy Haired Boss then ripped another PHB out of a parallel reality to replace him, or the time Scott Adams himself got stuck in the strip, which lead to a parody of Film/TheWizardOfOz.
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* Both issues of the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} -- Matrix ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' tie-in, which are written by Keith Giffen, notorious for writing satirical stories about the DC Comics staff, current status quo, and characters.
* Issue 43 of ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', which diverges from the book's typical space adventures to depict a ''{{Series/Community}}''-esque genre homage of sitcom. The characters spend most of the issue in their human holomatter disguises and the tech is even more scientifically soft than the anything else in the comic. However it averts the "never mentioned again" symptom thanks to James Roberts' insistence on avoiding filler no matter what; the issue, despite its strangeness, actually develops the plot a bit, furthering Swerve's character development and setting up the Agent 113 subplot.
* Issue 43 of ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', which diverges from the book's typical space adventures to depict a ''{{Series/Community}}''-esque genre homage of sitcom. The characters spend most of the issue in their human holomatter disguises and the tech is even more scientifically soft than the anything else in the comic. However it averts the "never mentioned again" symptom thanks to James Roberts' insistence on avoiding filler no matter what; the issue, despite its strangeness, actually develops the plot a bit, furthering Swerve's character development and setting up the Agent 113 subplot.
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* Both issues of the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} -- Matrix ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' tie-in, which are written by Keith Giffen, notorious for writing satirical stories about the DC Comics staff, current status quo, and characters.
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** Issue43 of ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', #43, which diverges from the book's typical space adventures to depict a ''{{Series/Community}}''-esque ''Series/{{Community}}''-esque genre homage of sitcom. The characters spend most of the issue in their human holomatter disguises and the tech is even more scientifically soft than the anything else in the comic. However it averts the "never mentioned again" symptom thanks to James Roberts' insistence on avoiding filler no matter what; the issue, despite its strangeness, actually develops the plot a bit, furthering Swerve's character development and setting up the Agent 113 subplot.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Marville}}'' is already a bizarre comic in general, but 3 of its 7 issues stand out as especially bizarre:
** Issue 3 isn't a case because of what happens in the story (the main cast meets god - or at least, someone named Jack who claims to be god), but rather, what happens in the book itself - with the exceptions of the panel descriptions and a thought balloon from a fish, all the text is printed onto the panels without dialogue boxes. Reportedly, the reason for this was low budget.
** Issue 6 is a RecapIssue - that in of itself might not seem weird, until you consider that it's ''the last issue of the series''. Well, ''technically'' it's the last, because there's still..
** Issue 7, which not only doesn't feature any of the cast of Marville, but rather, is a ''submission guide'' to Marvel's Epic Comics imprint.
* ''ComicBook/ArchieMeetsThePunisher'', if only because of its [[AudienceAlienatingPremise ludicrous premise]]. The weirdest thing about it? It's actually considered to be ''good''.
** Issue 3 isn't a case because of what happens in the story (the main cast meets god - or at least, someone named Jack who claims to be god), but rather, what happens in the book itself - with the exceptions of the panel descriptions and a thought balloon from a fish, all the text is printed onto the panels without dialogue boxes. Reportedly, the reason for this was low budget.
** Issue 6 is a RecapIssue - that in of itself might not seem weird, until you consider that it's ''the last issue of the series''. Well, ''technically'' it's the last, because there's still..
** Issue 7, which not only doesn't feature any of the cast of Marville, but rather, is a ''submission guide'' to Marvel's Epic Comics imprint.
* ''ComicBook/ArchieMeetsThePunisher'', if only because of its [[AudienceAlienatingPremise ludicrous premise]]. The weirdest thing about it? It's actually considered to be ''good''.
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** Issue 3 isn't a case because of what happens in the story (the main cast meets god - or at least, someone named Jack who claims to be god), but rather, what happens in the book itself - with the exceptions of the panel descriptions and a thought balloon from a fish, all the text is printed onto the panels without dialogue boxes. Reportedly, the reason for this was low budget.
** Issue 6 is a RecapIssue - that in of itself might not seem weird, until you consider that it's ''the last issue of the series''. Well, ''technically'' it's the last, because there's still..
** Issue 7, which not only doesn't feature any of the cast of Marville, but rather, is a ''submission guide'' to Marvel's Epic Comics imprint.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieMeetsThePunisher'', if only because of its [[AudienceAlienatingPremise ludicrous premise.]] premise]]. The weirdest thing about it? It's actually considered to be ''good''.
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* Creator/{{Marvel}}'s Assistant Editor's Month was a traditional FifthWeekEvent where the assistant editors created bizarre stories that would never be allowed otherwise. Sometimes they also included serious stories. Sometimes they WERE serious stories, thus becoming a Bizarro Episode inside a week of Bizarro Episodes.
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Vol 4 #20 ''Wakandian Vacation'' was a BreatherEpisode set after the bleak "The Good, the Bad, and, the Ugly" arc and is one of the strangest issues that Marvel has ever done. After being abandoned by Cable in 1960's Wakanda, Deadpool is soon tasked to find cosmic puzzle pieces by a Watcher and a Giant PungeonMaster Robot known as ''The Ruler of Earth'' (not the kind of ruler you think, he rules nothing) for seemingly no reason. This takes him to a few locations, including the Negative Zone. Along the way, he upsets Mangog, who chases him for the rest of the issue, Ben Grimm, Fin Fang Foom, and Odin. Oh, and he accidentally blows up the moon. Also, a baby Watcher poops, which Odin uses to power Asgard for the next 1000 years. All in all, the issue makes zero sense, especially to newer readers who may not get some of the references. So, basically a parody of the more weirder elements of the Silver Age.
* Mr. Mxyzptlk was basically an ExcusePlot device to put Franchise/{{Superman}} in bizarre situations, especially since Mxy's returning was a ResetButton putting everything back the way it was.
* ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': The strip "Heroes on the Town" shows us a world where Bob, Dave, and Brian fully roleplay their characters, treat [=NPCs=] with respect, and are generous to a fault. In short, they live up to a lawful good alignment instead of just paying it their usual lip-service. Sara's behavior remains unchanged from canon universe. It can be quite bizarre to any reader used to their normal behaviors. At the end it's shown to be a [[spoiler: [[AllJustADream wish-fulfillment dream of the DM's]]]].
* The ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''[=/=]Creator/ImageComics {{crossover}} special. Chronologically meant to take place between the ''Return of the King'' special and issue #57 in the ''Sonic'' timeline, it has Particle steal the Master Emerald and bringing it to Dr. Ian Droid, so Sonic, Knuckles, and the Freedom Fighters travel to the Image Comics Earth to reclaim it, and end up joining forces with the Image Heroes. [[ResetButton In the end, Knuckles ends up wishing for everything to be restored to the way it was before,]] and afterwards, all but Particle and Shadowhawk forget the whole thing ever happened. Dr. Droid was supposed to make a return appearance in a later miniseries, as the threat Knuckles was prophesied to defeat. Thanks to ExecutiveMeddling, though, that {{plot}} was dropped and the miniseries got turned into the infamous "Mobius: 25 Years Later" arc.
* Like the above example, almost every intercompany {{crossover}} is a Bizarro Episode. They remain popular because of the potential for an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny, and if nothing else, there's always the hope that fans of one character will read the {{crossover}} and decide they like the other character as well and start reading that -- basically, companies trying to cross-pollinate their {{fandom}}. However, for legal reasons these {{crossover}}s very rarely have any impact on ongoing continuity (although it happens occasionally), and works set in different universes tend to have different assumptions and physical laws, in particular about PowerLevels. Most intercompany {{superhero}} {{crossover}}s have involved characters casually running into each other even though if they existed in the same universe they really should have had plenty of encounters before now or something, and afterwards are never mentioned again in-story unless there's another {{crossover}}.
* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Has an odd bit where Killer Moth starts asexually reproducing and fills an abandoned YMCA with tiny rude versions of himself that try to eat each other and grow to adulthood in about a week, and start running about Gotham nude attacking people when they're big enough to get out of the pool. This new power of Walker's was never mentioned or used again.
* Issue 34 of the first incarnation of Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' consisted of nothing but humorous takes on the Franchise/MarvelUniverse and its characters (a good number of them one-panel stories, even), culminating with "What Will Happen When Creator/StanLee Reads This Issue?" [[spoiler:He fires the entire staff. [[{{Catchphrase}} 'Nuff said]].]] Issue 34 of the revived series did it again, although without the epilogue.
* ''Comicbook/XMen'':
** ''Uncanny X-Men'' #153, the classic "Kitty's FairyTale", in which Comicbook/{{Kitty|Pryde}} regaled young [[Comicbook/{{Magyk}} Illyana Rasputin]] with a made-up FairyTale casting herself and ComicBook/{{Colossus}} as heroic pirates, and other members of the X-Men as their allies to rescue the Phoenix Genie. Some see this issue as a coda to the Claremont/Byrne era, as it shows Kitty fully assimilating with the team to the point where she can gently rib her teammates for their peccadilloes (as the story progresses the rest of the X-Men listen in and enjoy a good laugh), and even give the Scott and Jean in her story the happy ending which they were denied, making it an in-universe BreatherEpisode.
** Issue #44 took place during a story arc where the team battled the Brotherhood of Evil and had a {{Crossover}} with ''Comicbook/TheAvengers''. However, this specific issue instead featured a largely unrelated plot where Angel battled Red Raven, a forgotten [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] hero. The story then veered off into a subplot about Red Raven having to prevent the return of the {{Winged Humanoid}}s who raised him, before Angel ultimately left to continue his search for the Avengers. The only real explanation is that Roy Thomas, a well known Golden Age fan, wanted to feature one of his boyhood heroes in one of the books he was writing.
* The ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' story ''[[Recap/TintinFlight714 Flight 714]]'' starts out normal enough for an adventure of that franchise: Tintin and company are kidnapped by Rastapopulus's henchmen, who later keep them prisoners on a tiny island somewhere in Indonesia. But it soon becomes clear that something weird is going on, and it turns out that aliens have been coming to the island for millennia. And yeah, everybody except for Snowy (Tintin's dog) are forced to forget all about the adventure due to LaserGuidedAmnesia. Even compared to other "Tintin" stories, which acknowledge the existence of things like Voodoo magic or the Yeti, this is generally considered to be the odd one out.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' story ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky'' has two kinds of aliens (an {{Expy}} of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and his Franchise/{{Superman}} Expy bodyguards versus {{Manga}}-like insectoids and robots) suddenly turn up in Ancient Gaul to fight over the right to get the magic potion. And it all of course ends with the "good" aliens erasing everybody's memory of the whole episode. Even within a franchise, where there is plenty of magic and several other fantasy elements, this is generally seen as the weirdest "Astérix" story of them all.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** The comic was always a commercially-friendly strip, that clearly knew what its remit was, and wasn't going to confuse its audience by going beyond that. Which makes the one time that it ''did'' all the more incongruous. In 1989, a multi-strip storyline saw Garfield [[http://www.retrojunk.com/content/article/7218/index/ alone in his apparently long-abandoned house.]] What really makes this strange is that it doesn't use this as a setup to a humorous or "safe" conclusion (as happened during a similar storyline elsewhere), but instead leads to [[spoiler:a strange metaphysical/psychological horror ending where it turns out Garfield himself no longer exists and "wills" Jon and Odie back into "existence" through the power of denial, or madness. And that's it, no further explanation]]. Apparently Jim Davis intended this as a Halloween special, and the strip mirrors the 1976 Italian animation Allegro Non Troppo. Still the most unusual Garfield strip that has ever appeared.
** Much later (and less notable), an October 2008 arc involves one of the characters between Jon, Garfield, Odie, and (apparently) [[CompanionCube Pooky]] having a very strange dream wherein all four of them are [[LEGOBodyParts randomly swapping heads around]] throughout the week. The arc abruptly ended on Thursday of that week [[NoEnding without any of the characters being shown waking up from the dream]] nor whom among them was actually having the dream in the first place (it's left ambiguous who it was between the four) being revealed.
* One issue of the Creator/GrantMorrison ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' featured a Lee/Kirby styled version of DC's most prominent magical characters at the time. It turned out to be AllJustADream of one of the characters, [[ItMakesSenseInContext a sentient street named Danny]]. ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' is essentially this for Franchise/TheDCU in general, and considering it exists in the same universe as aliens, gods, sorcerers, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] ComicBook/AmbushBug, that's ''really'' saying something. The franchise is often a vehicle for surreal, high-concept ideas, especially under the pen of the aforementioned Creator/GrantMorrison.
* Every year at Kwanzaa, ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' runs a two-week-long StoryArc that involves new, made-up characters doing absolutely ridiculous things that resemble African folktales, with little concern for anything other than being awesomely over-the-top, often toeing the line between RuleOfCool and an outright MindScrew. Past arcs have included [[http://joshreads.com/images/07/01/i070102curtis.jpg a golden, telepathic otter and a magic sandal]] and [[http://joshreads.com/images/0601/i060109curtis.jpg bat-winged bears]], among others. Consensus among fans (or at least among Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon and his followers) is that these are among his best works; he even considers the otter "still the gold standard."
* For the German Club Nintendo comics, ''Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens'' ([[https://imgur.com/gallery/fembZ Super Mario in the Night of Horror]]) was this. Okay, the series was already bordering on the bizarre to begin with, but most others at least have something to do with the source material. This one? Had Mario as Van Helsing leading Link and Kirby through an adventure in their now possessed tower home to defeat Wario and Abigor, the latter of which was a demon from hell. It also features a zombie Princess Peach, [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]] and [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]] as characters and an absolute ton of other things from horror films.
* Issue 8 of ''Comicbook/SuperboyNew52''. It's an entire issue of Superboy fighting Grunge of Comicbook/{{Gen 13}}, who in the new universe is a Ravager. There was no build up to this issue, has no bearing on the series proper, it's just Superboy and Grunge fighting as Grunge talks about the qualifications of being a Ravager, and it is never mentioned again.
* ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} has had a few, such as the time Alice killed the Pointy Haired Boss then ripped another PHB out of a parallel reality to replace him, or the time Scott Adams himself got stuck in the strip, which lead to a parody of Film/TheWizardOfOz.
* The "Rock Zombies" arc of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' features Chase's new boss, a radio shock-jock, attempting to take over Los Angeles with a cursed song that turns anyone who listens to it (and who has undergone plastic surgery) into a zombie. OutOfCharacter moments abound (like Karolina apparently being over Xavin, Klara becoming a gamer girl, and ''the Staff of One eating someone''), the BigBad just disappears without any real comeuppance, the zombie spell is reversed off-panel, and none of the events of the arc are ever mentioned again. (Granted, this is the penultimate story arc before the series was cancelled.)
* Both issues of the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} -- Matrix ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' tie-in, which are written by Keith Giffen, notorious for writing satirical stories about the DC Comics staff, current status quo, and characters.
* Issue 43 of ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', which diverges from the book's typical space adventures to depict a ''{{Series/Community}}''-esque genre homage of sitcom. The characters spend most of the issue in their human holomatter disguises and the tech is even more scientifically soft than the anything else in the comic. However it averts the "never mentioned again" symptom thanks to James Roberts' insistence on avoiding filler no matter what; the issue, despite its strangeness, actually develops the plot a bit, furthering Swerve's character development and setting up the Agent 113 subplot.
** The Christmas Special at first seems to be purely non-canon nonsense; it features a Creator/DrSeuss-esque rhyming story about Starscream inventing a new holiday done in a cartoony art style. The main feature is a bizarre pastiche of Christmas tropes where for reasons that [[ItMakesSenseInContext totally make sense]] the crew must decorate a large conical green thing with baubles, string up lights, wear paper crowns, and spend the evening nestled snug in their B.E.D.s. It's implied that some of this is because [[MadScientist Brainstorm]] invented a "[[LampshadeHanging contrivance engine]]". And yet, it's actually canon; the swarm of scraplets that Whirl befriends shows up again in the series finale.
* ''ComicBook/{{Marville}}'' is already a bizarre comic in general, but 3 of its 7 issues stand out as especially bizarre:
** Issue 3 isn't a case because of what happens in the story (the main cast meets god - or at least, someone named Jack who claims to be god), but rather, what happens in the book itself - with the exceptions of the panel descriptions and a thought balloon from a fish, all the text is printed onto the panels without dialogue boxes. Reportedly, the reason for this was low budget.
** Issue 6 is a RecapIssue - that in of itself might not seem weird, until you consider that it's ''the last issue of the series''. Well, ''technically'' it's the last, because there's still..
** Issue 7, which not only doesn't feature any of the cast of Marville, but rather, is a ''submission guide'' to Marvel's Epic Comics imprint.
* ''ComicBook/ArchieMeetsThePunisher'', if only because of its [[AudienceAlienatingPremise ludicrous premise.]] The weirdest thing about it? It's actually considered to be ''good''.
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* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Vol 4 #20 ''Wakandian Vacation'' was a BreatherEpisode set after the bleak "The Good, the Bad, and, the Ugly" arc and is one of the strangest issues that Marvel has ever done. After being abandoned by Cable in 1960's Wakanda, Deadpool is soon tasked to find cosmic puzzle pieces by a Watcher and a Giant PungeonMaster Robot known as ''The Ruler of Earth'' (not the kind of ruler you think, he rules nothing) for seemingly no reason. This takes him to a few locations, including the Negative Zone. Along the way, he upsets Mangog, who chases him for the rest of the issue, Ben Grimm, Fin Fang Foom, and Odin. Oh, and he accidentally blows up the moon. Also, a baby Watcher poops, which Odin uses to power Asgard for the next 1000 years. All in all, the issue makes zero sense, especially to newer readers who may not get some of the references. So, basically a parody of the more weirder elements of the Silver Age.
* Mr. Mxyzptlk was basically an ExcusePlot device to put Franchise/{{Superman}} in bizarre situations, especially since Mxy's returning was a ResetButton putting everything back the way it was.
* ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': The strip "Heroes on the Town" shows us a world where Bob, Dave, and Brian fully roleplay their characters, treat [=NPCs=] with respect, and are generous to a fault. In short, they live up to a lawful good alignment instead of just paying it their usual lip-service. Sara's behavior remains unchanged from canon universe. It can be quite bizarre to any reader used to their normal behaviors. At the end it's shown to be a [[spoiler: [[AllJustADream wish-fulfillment dream of the DM's]]]].
* The ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''[=/=]Creator/ImageComics {{crossover}} special. Chronologically meant to take place between the ''Return of the King'' special and issue #57 in the ''Sonic'' timeline, it has Particle steal the Master Emerald and bringing it to Dr. Ian Droid, so Sonic, Knuckles, and the Freedom Fighters travel to the Image Comics Earth to reclaim it, and end up joining forces with the Image Heroes. [[ResetButton In the end, Knuckles ends up wishing for everything to be restored to the way it was before,]] and afterwards, all but Particle and Shadowhawk forget the whole thing ever happened. Dr. Droid was supposed to make a return appearance in a later miniseries, as the threat Knuckles was prophesied to defeat. Thanks to ExecutiveMeddling, though, that {{plot}} was dropped and the miniseries got turned into the infamous "Mobius: 25 Years Later" arc.
* Like the above example, almost every intercompany {{crossover}} is a Bizarro Episode. They remain popular because of the potential for an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny, and if nothing else, there's always the hope that fans of one character will read the {{crossover}} and decide they like the other character as well and start reading that -- basically, companies trying to cross-pollinate their {{fandom}}. However, for legal reasons these {{crossover}}s very rarely have any impact on ongoing continuity (although it happens occasionally), and works set in different universes tend to have different assumptions and physical laws, in particular about PowerLevels. Most intercompany {{superhero}} {{crossover}}s have involved characters casually running into each other even though if they existed in the same universe they really should have had plenty of encounters before now or something, and afterwards are never mentioned again in-story unless there's another {{crossover}}.
* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Has an odd bit where Killer Moth starts asexually reproducing and fills an abandoned YMCA with tiny rude versions of himself that try to eat each other and grow to adulthood in about a week, and start running about Gotham nude attacking people when they're big enough to get out of the pool. This new power of Walker's was never mentioned or used again.
* Issue 34 of the first incarnation of Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' consisted of nothing but humorous takes on the Franchise/MarvelUniverse and its characters (a good number of them one-panel stories, even), culminating with "What Will Happen When Creator/StanLee Reads This Issue?" [[spoiler:He fires the entire staff. [[{{Catchphrase}} 'Nuff said]].]] Issue 34 of the revived series did it again, although without the epilogue.
* ''Comicbook/XMen'':
** ''Uncanny X-Men'' #153, the classic "Kitty's FairyTale", in which Comicbook/{{Kitty|Pryde}} regaled young [[Comicbook/{{Magyk}} Illyana Rasputin]] with a made-up FairyTale casting herself and ComicBook/{{Colossus}} as heroic pirates, and other members of the X-Men as their allies to rescue the Phoenix Genie. Some see this issue as a coda to the Claremont/Byrne era, as it shows Kitty fully assimilating with the team to the point where she can gently rib her teammates for their peccadilloes (as the story progresses the rest of the X-Men listen in and enjoy a good laugh), and even give the Scott and Jean in her story the happy ending which they were denied, making it an in-universe BreatherEpisode.
** Issue #44 took place during a story arc where the team battled the Brotherhood of Evil and had a {{Crossover}} with ''Comicbook/TheAvengers''. However, this specific issue instead featured a largely unrelated plot where Angel battled Red Raven, a forgotten [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] hero. The story then veered off into a subplot about Red Raven having to prevent the return of the {{Winged Humanoid}}s who raised him, before Angel ultimately left to continue his search for the Avengers. The only real explanation is that Roy Thomas, a well known Golden Age fan, wanted to feature one of his boyhood heroes in one of the books he was writing.
* The ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' story ''[[Recap/TintinFlight714 Flight 714]]'' starts out normal enough for an adventure of that franchise: Tintin and company are kidnapped by Rastapopulus's henchmen, who later keep them prisoners on a tiny island somewhere in Indonesia. But it soon becomes clear that something weird is going on, and it turns out that aliens have been coming to the island for millennia. And yeah, everybody except for Snowy (Tintin's dog) are forced to forget all about the adventure due to LaserGuidedAmnesia. Even compared to other "Tintin" stories, which acknowledge the existence of things like Voodoo magic or the Yeti, this is generally considered to be the odd one out.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' story ''Recap/AsterixAndTheFallingSky'' has two kinds of aliens (an {{Expy}} of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and his Franchise/{{Superman}} Expy bodyguards versus {{Manga}}-like insectoids and robots) suddenly turn up in Ancient Gaul to fight over the right to get the magic potion. And it all of course ends with the "good" aliens erasing everybody's memory of the whole episode. Even within a franchise, where there is plenty of magic and several other fantasy elements, this is generally seen as the weirdest "Astérix" story of them all.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** The comic was always a commercially-friendly strip, that clearly knew what its remit was, and wasn't going to confuse its audience by going beyond that. Which makes the one time that it ''did'' all the more incongruous. In 1989, a multi-strip storyline saw Garfield [[http://www.retrojunk.com/content/article/7218/index/ alone in his apparently long-abandoned house.]] What really makes this strange is that it doesn't use this as a setup to a humorous or "safe" conclusion (as happened during a similar storyline elsewhere), but instead leads to [[spoiler:a strange metaphysical/psychological horror ending where it turns out Garfield himself no longer exists and "wills" Jon and Odie back into "existence" through the power of denial, or madness. And that's it, no further explanation]]. Apparently Jim Davis intended this as a Halloween special, and the strip mirrors the 1976 Italian animation Allegro Non Troppo. Still the most unusual Garfield strip that has ever appeared.
** Much later (and less notable), an October 2008 arc involves one of the characters between Jon, Garfield, Odie, and (apparently) [[CompanionCube Pooky]] having a very strange dream wherein all four of them are [[LEGOBodyParts randomly swapping heads around]] throughout the week. The arc abruptly ended on Thursday of that week [[NoEnding without any of the characters being shown waking up from the dream]] nor whom among them was actually having the dream in the first place (it's left ambiguous who it was between the four) being revealed.
* One issue of the Creator/GrantMorrison ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' featured a Lee/Kirby styled version of DC's most prominent magical characters at the time. It turned out to be AllJustADream of one of the characters, [[ItMakesSenseInContext a sentient street named Danny]]. ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' is essentially this for Franchise/TheDCU in general, and considering it exists in the same universe as aliens, gods, sorcerers, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] ComicBook/AmbushBug, that's ''really'' saying something. The franchise is often a vehicle for surreal, high-concept ideas, especially under the pen of the aforementioned Creator/GrantMorrison.
* Every year at Kwanzaa, ''ComicStrip/{{Curtis}}'' runs a two-week-long StoryArc that involves new, made-up characters doing absolutely ridiculous things that resemble African folktales, with little concern for anything other than being awesomely over-the-top, often toeing the line between RuleOfCool and an outright MindScrew. Past arcs have included [[http://joshreads.com/images/07/01/i070102curtis.jpg a golden, telepathic otter and a magic sandal]] and [[http://joshreads.com/images/0601/i060109curtis.jpg bat-winged bears]], among others. Consensus among fans (or at least among Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon and his followers) is that these are among his best works; he even considers the otter "still the gold standard."
* For the German Club Nintendo comics, ''Super Mario in Die Nacht des Grauens'' ([[https://imgur.com/gallery/fembZ Super Mario in the Night of Horror]]) was this. Okay, the series was already bordering on the bizarre to begin with, but most others at least have something to do with the source material. This one? Had Mario as Van Helsing leading Link and Kirby through an adventure in their now possessed tower home to defeat Wario and Abigor, the latter of which was a demon from hell. It also features a zombie Princess Peach, [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]] and [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]] as characters and an absolute ton of other things from horror films.
* Issue 8 of ''Comicbook/SuperboyNew52''. It's an entire issue of Superboy fighting Grunge of Comicbook/{{Gen 13}}, who in the new universe is a Ravager. There was no build up to this issue, has no bearing on the series proper, it's just Superboy and Grunge fighting as Grunge talks about the qualifications of being a Ravager, and it is never mentioned again.
* ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} has had a few, such as the time Alice killed the Pointy Haired Boss then ripped another PHB out of a parallel reality to replace him, or the time Scott Adams himself got stuck in the strip, which lead to a parody of Film/TheWizardOfOz.
* The "Rock Zombies" arc of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' features Chase's new boss, a radio shock-jock, attempting to take over Los Angeles with a cursed song that turns anyone who listens to it (and who has undergone plastic surgery) into a zombie. OutOfCharacter moments abound (like Karolina apparently being over Xavin, Klara becoming a gamer girl, and ''the Staff of One eating someone''), the BigBad just disappears without any real comeuppance, the zombie spell is reversed off-panel, and none of the events of the arc are ever mentioned again. (Granted, this is the penultimate story arc before the series was cancelled.)
* Both issues of the ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} -- Matrix ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' tie-in, which are written by Keith Giffen, notorious for writing satirical stories about the DC Comics staff, current status quo, and characters.
* Issue 43 of ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', which diverges from the book's typical space adventures to depict a ''{{Series/Community}}''-esque genre homage of sitcom. The characters spend most of the issue in their human holomatter disguises and the tech is even more scientifically soft than the anything else in the comic. However it averts the "never mentioned again" symptom thanks to James Roberts' insistence on avoiding filler no matter what; the issue, despite its strangeness, actually develops the plot a bit, furthering Swerve's character development and setting up the Agent 113 subplot.
** The Christmas Special at first seems to be purely non-canon nonsense; it features a Creator/DrSeuss-esque rhyming story about Starscream inventing a new holiday done in a cartoony art style. The main feature is a bizarre pastiche of Christmas tropes where for reasons that [[ItMakesSenseInContext totally make sense]] the crew must decorate a large conical green thing with baubles, string up lights, wear paper crowns, and spend the evening nestled snug in their B.E.D.s. It's implied that some of this is because [[MadScientist Brainstorm]] invented a "[[LampshadeHanging contrivance engine]]". And yet, it's actually canon; the swarm of scraplets that Whirl befriends shows up again in the series finale.
* ''ComicBook/{{Marville}}'' is already a bizarre comic in general, but 3 of its 7 issues stand out as especially bizarre:
** Issue 3 isn't a case because of what happens in the story (the main cast meets god - or at least, someone named Jack who claims to be god), but rather, what happens in the book itself - with the exceptions of the panel descriptions and a thought balloon from a fish, all the text is printed onto the panels without dialogue boxes. Reportedly, the reason for this was low budget.
** Issue 6 is a RecapIssue - that in of itself might not seem weird, until you consider that it's ''the last issue of the series''. Well, ''technically'' it's the last, because there's still..
** Issue 7, which not only doesn't feature any of the cast of Marville, but rather, is a ''submission guide'' to Marvel's Epic Comics imprint.
* ''ComicBook/ArchieMeetsThePunisher'', if only because of its [[AudienceAlienatingPremise ludicrous premise.]] The weirdest thing about it? It's actually considered to be ''good''.
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