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openGirl with blue hair and electricity powers Print Comic
A graphic novel about a girl who's targeted by a strange organization and given electricity powers, which also dyes her hair blue. She becomes a superhero and defeats a supervillian who had the power to create shields, with the help of her physics teacher and her best friend. The girl defeats her by luring her into a pool just as she lets up her shield, as she can't breathe while inside it, and gets shocked by the electrified water. Anyone know what this could be? I think i've actually seen it on tvtropes once, but i can't find it now.
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
openJLA 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.
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 SnowyFlankopenSome 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?
openDonald Duck comic about "Zargoth"? (SOLVED) Print Comic
There was this one Donald Duck comic book I got from the library back when I was a kid, and I want to read it again, but I can't remember it's title. The comic focuses on a fantasy movie that becomes a big hit with audiences, and everyone has fun roleplaying the characters from the movie, with a group acting like the heroes. Donald is all humbug about it at first, but after the leader of said group woos Daisy, Donald decides to check out the movie for himself, and ends up loving it. To get back at the leader and win Daisy's heart, Donald uses a giant robot in likeness of the movies main antagonist (I think his name is Zargoth?) to terrorize everyone during a festival (Including the heroic group), while he swoops in to save the day, framing himself as a hero. Unfortunately, something goes wrong with "Zargoth", and he goes to the incinerator plant and plops into a lava pool to melt, in spite of Donald's upset pleas. After that, he loses it and starts treating the remote control as "his precious" (Yes, he starts acting like Gollum in this scene). Daisy decides not to expose him since he needs the money for doctor bills. The story ends with the movie everyone previously raving about being shoved to the side, while the heroic group now becomes a cult for "Zargoth".
I think the comic book also had a story about Gyro Gearloose's happypants invention.
Edited by WolfThunderopenUnnamed 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 DaibhidCopenMickey 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.
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.
openAlien 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.
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?
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I remember having a Hulk comic book around the late 80s or early 90s. The story line started out with Bruce Banner observing a gamma radiation beam coming down to Earth carrying a woman with green skin. Then he sees these men with red skin come to assault and capture her, so he goes to assist her as the Hulk. Somehow or another they board an alien ship where they teach the Hulk their language so he can communicate with them when he gets to their planet. Long story short, the Hulk leads a revolution against the red people who have been using the green people as slaves and heads back to Earth on a one-way trip. As he travels home, he is able to look at the planet one last time and sees that the green people are now treating the reds as badly as they were treated. The Hulk weeps and the comic ends. Anyone remember which issue this was?