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openZombie Girl Print Comic
Here's the scenario: When a tomboy dies, a guy who loves her slips a love letter in her grave. The next thing he knows, he sees the girl coming into his room, but as a zombie! She's there cause when she woke up, she saw the note and the address on it telling her where he lived, and now he has to live with the fact that the girl he loves knows of his feelings, she's going to be living with him forever, and he might have to give her meat to calm her zombified state when it starts acting up. Also, her friend knows about it. Seem familiar? Did i mention this is a manga?
Edited by shyguy128openOver-The-Top Baseball Web-Manga that got featured on Imagine Nation (SOLVED) Print Comic
There's this Manga that's available on some sort of web-manga service website. It's an over-the-top baseball story with its Signature Scene being the main character punting either 4 or 5 or 6 baseballs at once with one baseball bat. I don't remember the mangas name or the name of website that publishes it, but I do remember that both were featured on an episode of Imagine Nation.
Edited by WolfThunderopenAlien Sumerian comic (heavy metal) Print Comic
I remember once glancing at an issue of heavy metal (I think), where a Sumerian King sends his female guards to capture an advisor that ran off. The guards find the advisor and sleep with him before he is returned to the King. Through all this time the advisor wears a ceremonial sun mask. It is only at the end when the advisor is executed and his head put on a spike that the guards see he was a grey. Can anyone tell me what the story was called or what issue it was in? I've done searches, and the heavy metal website doesn't appear to have a way of finding out.
openNon Canon Iron Man Mecha story Print Comic
There were these comic books with Marvel Characters, I'm fairly certain they weren't canon, and they were meant for young children, in one of them Iron Man and a couple of other characters including Happy Hogan pilot an Iron Man mecha made from cars, to save Japan from Fin Fang Foom.
openMickey mouse fantasy comic Print Comic
There was a series of Mickey Mousse comics I remember where the premise was that Mickey owned this book that would suck him into a fantasy world. There was another mousse with an eyepatch and a mustache and I'm pretty sure there was a third mousse who was a princess. They were part of a rebel army I think. There was one installment of this comic where Mickey fell into a forest and ran into a temple that looked like that one M.C. Esher picture (the page image for Bizzarchitecture) on the inside. It started with Mickey being caught by a giant eagle or something where the other characters warned him not to go into the forest, so of course he fell off the eagle later. There's probably no article on this wiki because it's not wizards of mickey and there's nothing else like this on the main Mickey Mousse article.
openUnnamed character in Spider-Man/Deadpool Print Comic
I'm afraid there is very little information here, but in Spider-Man/Deadpool #28, there's a "Rashomon"-Style flashback by the two main characters, and Deadpool's version replaces the civilians with a random group of superheroes (with the "explanation" that they're the writer's "dream team", and these three panels are all he's ever going to get). Dazzler, Warlock, Magik and Crystar, Crystal Warrior, are all named. There's also another character, who is only referred to as "The artist formerly known as..." before Wade points out that they can't legally say what he was formerly known as. None of the usual places (Comic Book DB, Marvel Wiki) identify him. He doesn't even get any lines (only Dazzler and Crystar do); he's just there.
So. Can anyone think of a Marvel character with blond hair, who wears a white shirt, blue trousers and a red jacket, and who presumably fell victim to Writing Around Trademarks?
Edited by DaibhidCopenSome Weird Sci-Fi Comic Print Comic
When I was on a trip to the Philippines in 2005, I bought this comic from one of the convenience stores in a Marriott hotel in Manila. It revolved around a cybernetic space cadet who was tasked with taking down a rouge scientific experiment. But the scientists don't want it destroyed even though one of them is being tickle tortured by it. What's the name of this comic? What issue is it?
openThree sisters comic Print Comic
Looking for a comic about three blonde sisters who got powers from an alien and killed four people as vigilantes in order to get a wish granted by the alien It was dark and graphic and I believe the youngest one killed a part human doctor with her teddy bear
Edited by SnowyFlankopenJLA comic where they time travel thousands of years into the past? Print Comic
My case is a bit special in that I've never actually read the comic but was looking up tropes when I came across this example under the Comics tab of Temporal Sickness: "When the Justice League of America traveled several thousand years into the past, the human members got sick for a while. Batman was sick the longest because he is the most 'normal'. Green Lantern had some protection but he still got sick. The Flash recovered the fastest because of his super metabolism but he wouldn't recommend recovering that way." I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this as it's my first time requesting help searching for a particular work. In any case, if anyone knows which comic this quote is referring to, I'd be very much in your debt! I find it frustrating that the troper didn't specify which comic exactly so those interested (like me) could read it. Also, I hope print comic is the correct category for this. I'm assuming it was published in print at some point or another.
openComic possibly about deconstruction of sidekicks. Print Comic
In 2016 i picked up a comic from a goodwill in my town that came along with a box of various other comics. I lost it the same day but i did manage to skim through it while riding back home. I cant remember the title, the author, the artist, or who published. although i know it wasn't DC or marvel specifically and i'm 90% sure it wasn't by image. It was probably the second to last issue and from what i remember its plot focus is that the main superheroes of this world are captured by some otherworldly force and held captive in some sort of pocket dimension in order to keep them from stopping earths destruction. Some seem to be an expy of superman with a flashy cape and a big defender of justice attitude and all of them have hints of traits from heroes of the silver age. The only heroes left on earth are their sidekicks. Two that stand out in my mind is a African american boy dressed like a birthday magician and a android with human flesh skin. With the world at stake these kids take it on themselves to save the world but are barely equipped to do it. they end up almost killing themselves and severely shattering every moral code for the greater good. From what i interpreted the boy magician side kick does this allot and gets his hands very dirty and the android sidekick ends up severely damaged. there's also a girl sidekick with light brown skin if i recall but all i know of her is that shes there. I know this is not be allot to go on but I've searched google as much as i could but nothing remotely similar comes up. I even went to my local comic book shop to describe it and no one had heard of it. Really hoping someone could help me out because it sounds really interesting and id like to continue reading it.
openBuffy The Vampire Slayer The Comics. Print Comic
I'd love to see the tropes from the comics added to the page of the Buffy page. :-)
openMedieval Donald Duck Print Comic
A series of Disney comics set in the Middle Ages, possibly two different ones:
One where Donald Duck is a feudal overlord. One of his men ends up becoming a noble (I think he inherited a title) and leaves, so Donald goes with him as his squire and prevents him from doing anything himself (as nobles have servants for that). After a few days of Donald cooking all the food and doing all the fighting, the man declares he doesn't want to be a noble anymore and returns to Donald's castle (Just as Planned on Donald's part)
One where Daisy is a Viking princess who sends her men on raids because she can't stand living in a barbarian tribe instead of civilization.
openTrouble finding a MAD issue Print Comic
I thought this was the one that parodied 2001: A Space Odyssey, but evidently not. I'm looking for the issue of MAD that had a segment on innovation - in the old days, a panel narrated, you would have a ruined picnic because no one thought to bring a churchkey, but now these new-fangled pop-tops are super-convenient and capable of severing your freaking thumb. Also - this may, mind, be yet a third issue - containing a treatment of the "success story" movie formula juxtaposed with the same formula as hippies would probably like it. The upshot is that the traditional formula has a poor kid living on the Lower East Side who, through pluck, dedication and three-act structure, winds up in the Philharmonic Orchestra; the hippie version has a trust-fund kiddie winding up living happily ever after on the Lower East Side.
openComic book about a teen superhero who's the son of a supervillain Print Comic
I remember reading a comic book ages ago about a teenager who loved super hero comics and wanted to be a superhero. He was also being trained by and provided for by various people hired by his rich and eccentric father (or maybe grandfather? uncle?) that he had never met in person. He assumed his father was a superhero and was grooming him to be his replacement but when he finally met his father it turns out his father was a superVILLAIN who was grooming him to be his replacement. The protagonist ultimately chose to take up his father's mantle but as a hero. I remember that his costume had a cape and one of those masks that armors the eyes and chin and in the first issue he was reading a comic and commented that it sucked because it was a story arc about clones (an obvious jab at Spiderman's Clone Saga) but he was reading it anyway because he wanted to stay in the loop on the series continuity. Anyone know about this? I think it was an Image comic.
openAny Pokemon Manga Fans Out There? Print Comic
This one may be difficult, but I'm looking for a particular volume of a Pokemon manga (it may or may not be from The Electric Tale of Pikachu, my memory can't recall) that contains a scene where a crying Pikachu gives a girl flowers (or maybe just a single flower). It was kind of a sad, yet cute and heartwarming scene. Anybody out there know what I'm talking about?
openA Weird Little Comic Print Comic
See, there's a comic I read on the internet once (though I'm pretty sure it was originally a print comic) that I've been going insane trying to find. The plot revolved around a mutated woman with giant, freaky-looking hands living in a drainage pipe—a "sewer mutant", to use Futurama's parlance— who adopts an orphaned boy. It had a very distinct art style, something like Junji Ito though it wasn't actually by him. It was short, too; maybe 10 or 15 pages. Any pointers?
openReally Weird Comic Print Comic
So there's a comic I read on the internet once (though I'm pretty sure it was originally a print comic) that I've been going insane trying to find. The plot revolved around a mutated woman with giant, freaky-looking hands living in a drainage pipe—a "sewer mutant", to use Futurama's parlance— who adopts an orphaned boy. It had a very distinct art style, something like Junji Ito though it wasn't actually by him. It was short, too; maybe 10 or 15 pages.
Any pointers?
openFeminist comic about teen gamers Print Comic
Protagonist is a teen/tween girl who gets really into an MMORPG after an Australian motivational speaker comes to her school to talk to the students about how gaming is empowering for girls. She gets really into it and befriends a Chinese boy who is an in-game gold farmer, and learns a lesson about privilege, or something.
This was published in the last few years. I remember finding it kind of Anvillicious.

A comic (I think it starred Wolverine) where an Overlord Jr. causes problems for the mob, as he's very much an Inadequate Inheritor more concerned with getting his way and forcing his underlings to act the way the movie mafia acts (kissing the godfather's ring, etc.). It ends with the consigliere putting a bullet through the dumbass' head while asking the father's spirit for forgiveness.
And another one (that does star Wolverine) with a mob boss who (pretends to?) have delusions of being a Roman emperor, including having his victims fed to the lions, and ends up thrown in his own lion pit.
Edited by Chabal2