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* CoversAlwaysLie: Despite what the front cover implies, at NO point in the story does a costumed monster called a "Super Lizard" rampage across the comic shop. It's probably a reference to one scenario where you -- as Super-Doer -- gets turned into a giant monster, but that happens ''inside'' the comic world, not out of it.it, nor do you wear a costume.
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* SchmuckBait: In the scenario where you end up in the world of Ballistic Bug, a rather blatant {{Expy}} of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', you assume you're now in the role of Peter... erm, sorry, Peewee, the book's protagonist, on a field trip in a nuclear plant where you get bitten by a radioactive insect which serves as your SuperHeroOrigin. The book then asks if you'd like to have the radioactive insect bite you... choose that option, and it turns out you're '''NOT''' Peewee, but a different kid, who is ''fatally'' allergic to radioactive insect bites. HaveANiceDeath indeed...
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You're a massive fanboy of comic books who, returning home from a meeting of your school's comics club, come across a shop called "Milo's Comics Dungeon". Strange, you ''don't'' remember seeing this shop a few days ago. But you decide to enter anyway, and it's proprietor - Milo the mutant - doesn't want you to leave.
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You're a massive fanboy of comic books who, returning home from a meeting of your school's comics club, come across a shop called "Milo's Comics Dungeon". Strange, you ''don't'' remember seeing this shop a few days ago. But you decide to enter anyway, and it's its proprietor - -- Milo the mutant - -- doesn't want you to leave.
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The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you enter the world of comic books.
You're a massive fanboy of comic books who, returning home from a meeting of your school's comics club, come across a shop called "Milo's Comics Dungeon". Strange, you ''don't'' remember seeing this shop a few days ago. But you decide to enter anyway, and it's proprietor - Milo the mutant - doesn't want you to leave.
Which way will you go? Browsing through the comic aisle will have you transported into the world of comic books -- which suspiciously resembles the comic book world from DC and Marvel from the real world -- while choosing to go downstairs, ignoring a sign telling you to stay away, will lead you to a literal dungeon.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* CoversAlwaysLie: Despite what the front cover implies, at NO point in the story does a costumed monster called a "Super Lizard" rampage across the comic shop. It's probably a reference to one scenario where you -- as Super Duper -- gets turned into a giant monster, but that happens ''inside'' the comic world, not out of.
* DeadAllAlong: In one of the good endings, you made your way out of the comic book world and ends up outside of the comic shop, which turns out to be locked. You then find out later that the owner, Milo, which you met earlier that day, had died ''years ago''.
* FaceYourFears: You can challenge Milo, the comic shop's owner, into letting you out by a direct confrontation, at which point Milo will turn into the one thing you fear the most that you must overcome. That turns out to be none other than [[Literature/TheHorrorAtCampJellyjam King Jellyjam]], from the [[IntercontinuityCrossover Goosebumps books of the same name]].
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: One of the two main storylines is to find that you are stuck in the world of comic books, and having to decide which of two comics you will enter. One of those gives you the option going into a third different comic, but all choices made from there end badly -- you're either killed by a MadScientist (who thinks you are a spy) or a team of other kids turned into comic book superheroes, who are angry that you accidentally caused one of them to get killed.
* {{Fauxshadowing}}: Early in the first storyline, you're warned that jumping from comic-to-comic one time too many will have you crushed into an ink blot, forever. NONE of the bad endings involves this happening to you, although some supporting characters you come across might suffer this fate. The ONE ending where you becomes an ink blot, it's because ''another'' character is holding on to you while he's being crushed as well, the effects spreading to you by accident.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Inverted in a few scenarios where you become a superhero in the comic world; attempt to use your heat-vision, and you end up setting the comic's paper on fire instead, unintentionally killing yourself. And if you try to escape by literally crawling out of the page, you find out you're stuck as a miniature comic-book character literally made of ink, at which point you're caught and squashed instantly by Milo.
* HeelFaceTurn: Yeah, the scenario where Milo turns into King Jellyjam? You can actually convince Milo to join you, at which point he becomes the star of a reality show with you as his agent and business partner partner. You then become insanely rich thanks to being the owner of a snail farm, which you have a limitless supply of as King Jellyjam sweats snails regularly.
* ImAHumanitarian: You can be eaten by your friends who have become cannibals after being trapped in a maze for too long.
* MadScientist: This book uses this as a plot point in one storyline where, after being sucked into a comic book, you're told to look for a Mad Scientist as they may be able to help you escape.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In the cellar, you can try to save another kid who's pinned under some wreckage while being pursued by a giant monster, but choosing that option will allow the monster to catch up on you and kill you.
* ParodyNames: Many of these: Super Duper/Super Doer (Superman), Tex Loudsnore (Lex Luthor), Ballistic Bug (Spider-Man), Y's Guys (X-Men), Wolfenbean (Wolverine), and many more.
* PortalCut: One bad ending involves a portal closing too soon and bisecting the reader [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe where your lower half remains in the comic shop]].
* PrehensileHair: One of the bad endings where you end up in the comic-book world have Professor Yves Yaboum -- a parody of [[ComicBook/XMen Professor Francis Xavier]] -- unleashing his mane on you, which throttles you to death on the spot.
* SchmuckBait: In the scenario where you end up in the world of Ballistic Bug, a rather blatant {{Expy}} of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', you assume you're now in the role of Peter... erm, sorry, Peewee, the book's protagonist, on a field trip in a nuclear plant where you get bitten by a radioactive insect which serves as your SuperHeroOrigin. The book then asks if you'd like to have the radioactive insect bite you... choose that option, and it turns out you're '''NOT''' Peewee, but a different kid, who is ''fatally'' allergic to radioactive insect bites. HaveANiceDeath indeed...
* ShoutOut:
** Aside from the superhero parodies mentioned above, there's a horror comic called ''[[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt The Cellar of Scary Stories]]''.
** The title itself is a reference to ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''.
* TooDumbToLive: Two for the price of one in the Y's Guys scenario. First, the kid who became Wolfenbean ignores your warning about overusing the "Guest Shot!" teleportation technique, and promptly melts into an ink blot. Then, the other Y's Guys blame you and you nervously make a couple of jokes about what happened to him... to a group of super-powered kids who could easily beat you to death (which they apparently do.)
* TrappedInAnotherWorld:
** The very premise of the first storyline; by reading a comic book, you end up being transported into the world of comics, where depending on the choices you make, will have you becoming a CaptainErsatz of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'', ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', or the ''ComicBook/XMen''.
** From the second storyline where you get trapped in the comic shop's cellars, in one of the worst endings, your attempt to find a way out have you going through a portal leading to a world populated entirely by insect-people instead, and you can't escape from since you're unable to find the way you entered. Worse of all, ''you'' are the alien in this particular scenario.
* WhosOnFirst: In one storyline, when you ask a Professor X parody called Professor Y why he wants to destroy the possibly visitor, it leads to one of these.
* WrittenSoundEffect: Early in the story, you come across stairs leading to the comic shop's basement, with a sign warning you to keep out stating "TRESSPASSERS WILL BE GLOMP-FED". If you tried to enter anyway, you end up sliding all the way to the cellar with a loud "GLOMPF!"
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The ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' book where you enter the world of comic books.
You're a massive fanboy of comic books who, returning home from a meeting of your school's comics club, come across a shop called "Milo's Comics Dungeon". Strange, you ''don't'' remember seeing this shop a few days ago. But you decide to enter anyway, and it's proprietor - Milo the mutant - doesn't want you to leave.
Which way will you go? Browsing through the comic aisle will have you transported into the world of comic books -- which suspiciously resembles the comic book world from DC and Marvel from the real world -- while choosing to go downstairs, ignoring a sign telling you to stay away, will lead you to a literal dungeon.
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!!This book provides examples of:
* CoversAlwaysLie: Despite what the front cover implies, at NO point in the story does a costumed monster called a "Super Lizard" rampage across the comic shop. It's probably a reference to one scenario where you -- as Super Duper -- gets turned into a giant monster, but that happens ''inside'' the comic world, not out of.
* DeadAllAlong: In one of the good endings, you made your way out of the comic book world and ends up outside of the comic shop, which turns out to be locked. You then find out later that the owner, Milo, which you met earlier that day, had died ''years ago''.
* FaceYourFears: You can challenge Milo, the comic shop's owner, into letting you out by a direct confrontation, at which point Milo will turn into the one thing you fear the most that you must overcome. That turns out to be none other than [[Literature/TheHorrorAtCampJellyjam King Jellyjam]], from the [[IntercontinuityCrossover Goosebumps books of the same name]].
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: One of the two main storylines is to find that you are stuck in the world of comic books, and having to decide which of two comics you will enter. One of those gives you the option going into a third different comic, but all choices made from there end badly -- you're either killed by a MadScientist (who thinks you are a spy) or a team of other kids turned into comic book superheroes, who are angry that you accidentally caused one of them to get killed.
* {{Fauxshadowing}}: Early in the first storyline, you're warned that jumping from comic-to-comic one time too many will have you crushed into an ink blot, forever. NONE of the bad endings involves this happening to you, although some supporting characters you come across might suffer this fate. The ONE ending where you becomes an ink blot, it's because ''another'' character is holding on to you while he's being crushed as well, the effects spreading to you by accident.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Inverted in a few scenarios where you become a superhero in the comic world; attempt to use your heat-vision, and you end up setting the comic's paper on fire instead, unintentionally killing yourself. And if you try to escape by literally crawling out of the page, you find out you're stuck as a miniature comic-book character literally made of ink, at which point you're caught and squashed instantly by Milo.
* HeelFaceTurn: Yeah, the scenario where Milo turns into King Jellyjam? You can actually convince Milo to join you, at which point he becomes the star of a reality show with you as his agent and business partner partner. You then become insanely rich thanks to being the owner of a snail farm, which you have a limitless supply of as King Jellyjam sweats snails regularly.
* ImAHumanitarian: You can be eaten by your friends who have become cannibals after being trapped in a maze for too long.
* MadScientist: This book uses this as a plot point in one storyline where, after being sucked into a comic book, you're told to look for a Mad Scientist as they may be able to help you escape.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In the cellar, you can try to save another kid who's pinned under some wreckage while being pursued by a giant monster, but choosing that option will allow the monster to catch up on you and kill you.
* ParodyNames: Many of these: Super Duper/Super Doer (Superman), Tex Loudsnore (Lex Luthor), Ballistic Bug (Spider-Man), Y's Guys (X-Men), Wolfenbean (Wolverine), and many more.
* PortalCut: One bad ending involves a portal closing too soon and bisecting the reader [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe where your lower half remains in the comic shop]].
* PrehensileHair: One of the bad endings where you end up in the comic-book world have Professor Yves Yaboum -- a parody of [[ComicBook/XMen Professor Francis Xavier]] -- unleashing his mane on you, which throttles you to death on the spot.
* SchmuckBait: In the scenario where you end up in the world of Ballistic Bug, a rather blatant {{Expy}} of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', you assume you're now in the role of Peter... erm, sorry, Peewee, the book's protagonist, on a field trip in a nuclear plant where you get bitten by a radioactive insect which serves as your SuperHeroOrigin. The book then asks if you'd like to have the radioactive insect bite you... choose that option, and it turns out you're '''NOT''' Peewee, but a different kid, who is ''fatally'' allergic to radioactive insect bites. HaveANiceDeath indeed...
* ShoutOut:
** Aside from the superhero parodies mentioned above, there's a horror comic called ''[[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt The Cellar of Scary Stories]]''.
** The title itself is a reference to ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''.
* TooDumbToLive: Two for the price of one in the Y's Guys scenario. First, the kid who became Wolfenbean ignores your warning about overusing the "Guest Shot!" teleportation technique, and promptly melts into an ink blot. Then, the other Y's Guys blame you and you nervously make a couple of jokes about what happened to him... to a group of super-powered kids who could easily beat you to death (which they apparently do.)
* TrappedInAnotherWorld:
** The very premise of the first storyline; by reading a comic book, you end up being transported into the world of comics, where depending on the choices you make, will have you becoming a CaptainErsatz of ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'', ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', or the ''ComicBook/XMen''.
** From the second storyline where you get trapped in the comic shop's cellars, in one of the worst endings, your attempt to find a way out have you going through a portal leading to a world populated entirely by insect-people instead, and you can't escape from since you're unable to find the way you entered. Worse of all, ''you'' are the alien in this particular scenario.
* WhosOnFirst: In one storyline, when you ask a Professor X parody called Professor Y why he wants to destroy the possibly visitor, it leads to one of these.
* WrittenSoundEffect: Early in the story, you come across stairs leading to the comic shop's basement, with a sign warning you to keep out stating "TRESSPASSERS WILL BE GLOMP-FED". If you tried to enter anyway, you end up sliding all the way to the cellar with a loud "GLOMPF!"
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