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resolved A comic from "Thargs future shocks" collection Print Comic
I'm looking for a short comic from the Thargs future shocks whose polot goes like this:
A pair of art thieves visit a gallery to find the most valuable piece to steal. They settle on a weird painting that is contained behind very thick bars. They saw through the bars to get at it, but instantly disappear. The next morning the curator takes a new group of tourists through the exposition, explaining that the painting is actually alive and the bars are not meant to protect the painting from people, but to protect people from the painting. The thieves are seen being tortured in Hell inside the painting.
resolved Spider-Man holiday special? Print Comic
Which issue/holiday special is this example from the "Friend To All Children" page reffering to? "One Christmas Special has Spider-Man making his regular visit to the sick children's ward in hospital to the utter jubilation of the kids. Unfortunately, J. Jonah Jameson is also there and angrily tells Spider-Man to buzz off, however every single boy and girl, as well as the nurse, vetoes this demanding that "Spidey" can stay and the kids even rip into Jameson, pointing out all the times Spider-Man has selflessly saved and cared for them. At the end of the issue, armed criminals burst into the hospital and threaten the children, triggering an Unstoppable Rage from Spidey."
openA single page of Mike Mignola artwork Print Comic
I was reading a comic book I think from the 90s, and each page was a different artist. It was something like a kid’s comic book, or at least one where you wouldn’t expect Mike Mignola’s dark style to show up. But one of the pages was him. All I remember from the page was a bunch of statues, or possibly corpses, with speech bubbles that only contained a single musical note.
open90's Video Gaming Manga w/ Gender Bending Avatars Print Comic
I'm trying to find the name of a manga I read 10+ years ago. Stylistically it looked like it was produced during the late 80's or early 90's (similar to Urusei Yatsura or Video Girl Ai). The plot involves a teenage girl playing an early MMO. During character creation she makes the unusual choice to use a male avatar. As a result the game engine grants bonuses to her stats (making her avatar more attractive and skillful).
openComic strip set in Canada Print Comic
I'm looking for a newspaper comic set in Canada.
The set up is that an American man married a Canadian woman and had a son and they decide to move to Canada and live with her father.
A lot of the humor derived from the American finding life in Canada to be strange and clashing with his father-in-law because of it.
opencosmic horror Print Comic
The story might be part of an anthology comic, it was definitely black and white despite being made and set somewhere after 2010. The main character has a job posting flyers for a restaurant, either sushi or ramen, and is attracted to a female coworker. The coworker is revealed to be a fishperson and in a Cthulhu cult, letting him impregnate her to create new "flavors". The last panel was Cthulhu stirring a big bowl with the milkyway in it implying he is literally cooking our universe for food
resolved World's Finest issue with Superman and Batman robots Print Comic
Tomato in the Mirror has an entry "In a World's Finest issue, Superman and Batman, after being put through a gauntlet of trials especially designed to mess with their heads, reveal their secret identities, and then ask to be destroyed. Turns out that these were actually robots meant to perfectly emulate the two heroes, and realize that they're just imperfect copies because they didn't have either hero's mental fortitude."
Does anyone know which issue this was? I tried looking up Superman robot and Batman robot appearances and couldn't find it.
open30s superheroes rescue 20s explorers Print Comic
A comic where 1920s pulp fiction characters (Tom Swift-like explorers) find themselves rescued by superheroes and are resentful of them being the next big thing in comics (they're being interviewed back home and all the journalists talk about is what was it like being rescued by superheroes).
As I recall it was part of an anthology rather than a standalone story. Might've been by Alan Moore, seems like the kind of thing he'd write.
resolved Horror Comic about a house that lures Print Comic
A comic whose first half is about a house that lures people from the neighborhood inside in various ways. One man is lured inside when his winning lottery ticket blows into the window an when he gets in he finds himself in the office for the destruction of losing lottery tickets and is stuck endlessly searching for his ticket in a sea of others.
The other half is the backstory in which a woman's child is buried up to his waist in the cemetery and eaten by grave worms so she gives up her soul in a magic ritual and gives birth to a horde of monsters that go out and cease the people of the town.
openPokemon/Yugioh-like Action Adventure Fantasy Print Comic
I remember reading a comic about a young man wearing a headband finding a strange carved stone in the shape of an angel lady during one of his venture to the forest outside his village. Fast forward and his village was attacked by people looking for that stone, and in a fit of desperation cast/summon the spirit/beast/entity inside the stone to protect himself. The way to summon them is to hold the stone tight and call their name, and the protagonist learned that he has to listen to the entity's true name to properly summon them. I think it's Lucinda or some majestic-sounding name. The dust sleeve is brown/black with only the title of the series printed vertically.
It's perhaps of Japanese or Korean origin, maybe its' related to an MMORPG too but I'm not sure. It's a pretty niche, I think. So I know what the cover and the story is but I don't know what's the title of the comic and perhaps you guys would know.
resolved dark comedy serial killer comic Print Comic
I think it was originally a French comic translated to English, I don't know when it was published but I read it sometime after 2020 and the art style definitely wasn't pre-2000. It was about this insane kid with an imaginary friend, who had killed his parent(s) and became on a classmate after she killed a monster in self-defense not realizing she was terrified of him. There was this one story about a group of orphans led by this mysterious masked kid who took the girl in after she ran away, with it being revealed that the serial killer kid was the masked leader at the end of the story. It was all played for dark humor and the art style was that generic kid/teen style instead of anything more related to horror
openI think it was called like "captain invincible" or something? Print Comic
It was a superhero comic where everyone's powers were based on the comic book medium. The main character's power was the ability to jump between panels or send other objects through. He had a sidekick whose power was forced perspective based, as long as he was in the foreground he could pick up things in the background like cars, trees, and houses, because from the reader's perspective they're tiny. There was an old man who could beat people up with his speech bubbles, and a villain who had limited time travel because he could travel to the direct opposite side of the page.
openHad to burn the money not to freeze Print Comic
I'm looking for what I'm 90% sure is a comic, but it might also be like a television short from an anthology like the Friday the 13th: The Series or another Twilight Zone type show.
The story is, a group of criminals attempt to rob a bank or vault during the harsh winter. They manage to, but the Villain Protagonist betrays his friends to keep the haul all to himself. A series of problems make his attempt to flee fail and he ends up alone in the cold wilderness. The only way he can keep from freezing is by making a bonfire with the money he's carrying.
The following morning, he's finally found, half-dead. He gets away with the crime, but, in a Karmic Twist Ending, the money's all ashes.
openUsborne (?) Puzzle Book Print Comic
I recall, probably in either the late 2000s or early 2010s, a book of puzzles centering around a single object (possibly a gem?). There were five or so different storylines consisting of smaller puzzles such as mazes set in different time periods, but all mixed up chronologically though the book — the metapuzzle was to determine the order in which they occurred. I recall for certain that one of the time periods was a futuristic space-travelling sort, and I think another one was circa the Age of Discovery and another was medieval?
I searched up the Usborne puzzle books, but it doesn't seem to be any of them.
open(SOLVED: Super-Elec) What issue of Mandrake The Magician is this? Print Comic
So, I was browsing when I noticed this example: "One issue of Mandrake the Magician featured an evil computer. Because it was connected to every machine, it could control them... in ways that made no real sense. Examples included: a fridge being filled with flames and trying to burn its owner (and returning to normal when a repairman showed up, even though the internal damage would be visible), a vertical vaccuum cleaner chasing a woman (on its non-powered wheels), and a corded phone receiver leaping out of its user's hand and trying to strangle her. It also caused streetlights to explode and traffic lights to malfunction in order to cause traffic chaos, which was at least physically feasible." Does anyone know what issue that was?
Edited by sRAMrelevratopen(SOLVED) Educational Superhero Comic Designed To Get Kids To Think Math Is Cool Print Comic
So, a few years ago I got a packet of math problems that had a little black-and white printed "superhero comic" attached to it. It only took up, like, the front and back of a single sheet of paper, and it detailed four Ordinary Middle School Students discovering that they have math-themed powers. There was a white girl, a black guy, a white guy, and I think an Asian girl.
The white girl's super name was "Symmetry", and her uniform was half-black and half-white. She had the power to split into two duplicates, one wearing all white and the other wearing all black. I specifically remember the tagline "SYMMETRY splits in two for a double-pronged attack!" (There's a chance she could've been named "Symmetra" or something like that instead).
The black guy had the power to create octagonal forcefields, I think his code name might've just been "Octagon" but it might've been something cooler.
Either the white guy or the Asian girl had the power to shrink and was named "Minus", I don't recall what the fourth name and power was.
They didn't actually do any superheroing in the comic, it was just character introduction.
Edited by sRAMrelevratresolved Comic about genetically modified female bodyguard Print Comic
As the description says, she's a body guard for her rich family that rules a large part of the world after an economic crisis. I think her name was Forever or something like that. In the setting, the world is ruled by a few families and they each have these special bodyguards (like forever). Also her family has control over advanced medical research which they use to make her and as their main bargaining chip.
openArchie Comic where Betty & Veronica turn into cats Print Comic
It was a Halloween special and Dracula was in it.
openShiro’s Forums: Babymouse Print Comic
When I first read Babymouse, I was thinking that I could imagine if the book became a TV adaptation. I draw fan arts of Babymouse as an anime character. One timeI made the Babymouse cast as the Doki Doki! PreCure cast. Later that time, I read Squish. On Christmas 2018, I finally got Babymouse and Squish books. Unfortunately, they’re only 3 each. Today I still read the books and I wish that they would made a TV adaptation of it.
Edited by ShiroAkane

a comic book i read a long time ago. the main character is some sort of stuntman who gets badly injured in an accident, and gets given bionic parts and becomes a cyborg. somehow, he ends up on the titanic, and has to stop someone else from trying to save the titanic, because if the titanic survives, Japan somehow wins World War 2. at the end he gets briefly trapped in prehistory