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TeChameleon Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Sep 5th 2019 at 8:39:01 PM

I was reading the old run of Action Comics, and ran across one of those storylines that is so utterly, bafflingly insane that it only seems to happen in comics. And please note, this was a Bronze Age of Comics story played entirely straight, the comic apparently expected to be taken seriously, given the presence of the CIA drugs-for-guns scandal and Gorbachev/Reagan peace talks as plot points.

Over the course of the story, the protagonist, Deadman, accidentally released Satan from CIA custody, then him and Satan possessed Raisa Gorbachev and Nancy Reagan, respectively, and got them into a punch-up, and eventually Deadman scammed some aliens from earlier in the story into abducting Satan in order to get rid of him.

I'll just... leave that there for a moment.

So what are some other 'holy crap, comics are weird' moments from the rest of you? I mean, there is some stuff that seems to just be straight-up LSD flashbacks, like giant turtle-boy Jimmy Olsen or Superman shooting tiny homunculi out of his fingers on rainbow rays, but what about those stories that aren't peyote-induced hallucinations, but that you nevertheless can't describe without sounding like an utter lunatic?

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#3: Sep 11th 2019 at 12:59:55 PM

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/curecancer.png

this is still my favorite line ever said by a fictional character

PSA: a cat is not a dog
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#4: Sep 13th 2019 at 10:52:57 AM

Comet is somehow very creepy yet I wanted more of Bronco Bill. I think I have a thing for these things.

I miss Jupiter.

If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
JTTWlover Heya there! I'm West. from Chinese Heaven Since: Mar, 2018 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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#5: Oct 12th 2019 at 3:59:33 AM

Here is the Absorbacon with some weird Silver Age stuff.

If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison
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