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openOld Superman story Print Comic
This is an old Superman comic, published before the 90s. It might have been in the 60s, 70s or 80s. An old man in an isolated community tells stories about a fictional character he's made up, called "Superman". What he doesn't know, unlike almost everybody else, is that Superman actually exists, and that every story he tells is a real adventure that Superman actually has experienced. At the end, the old storyteller meets Superman who's right in the middle of an important mission (to stop a bomb, I seem to remember), and the storyteller has to come up with a story where Superman gets it done and saves everybody.
openNo Title Print Comic
The book was about four kids, led by a young black girl, who can travel to a different dimension through a magic(?) movie projector. They are locked out if the projector is off, and they jam it to keep it on with an action figure, which subsequently breaks. There is also blue goop that can possess people and zombify(?) them. It was in the kid’s section of the library, but was a bit creepy for the kids that were there. I really would appreciate it if anyone found it. Thanks!
openSuper villain jail Print Comic
There was this comic I found at the library about a guy who found himself in a supervillain prison. It wasn't part of the Marvel universe or the DC universe. As a matter of fact, I believe that it wasn't taking place in any pre-established comics universe. I didn't read more than a few pages at the time, but the general vibe of it was pretty dark stuff.
Edited by MichaelKatsuroopenSolved: French? Language comic of the early 2000s Print Comic
I’m pretty sketchy on the details, but I seem to remember reading a scanlated comic that I believe I read on Mangafox at the time. I think it was originally in French and had a supernatural school setting, a sort of Hogwarts-sequel feel, but if it were for college age students. There were lots of characters but I think one of the main characters was a werewolf. Updates dried up around an arc that involved the school having to close/ some sort of crisis. At the time, I felt like it was a unique story and take on the genre and very contemporary, urban youth in aesthetic.
I believe some characters were dating each other and having more “adult” relations, but I don’t think it was a smut comic; just that the characters were of the age where that is just a normal aspect of relationships, so I think the intended audience skewed higher than 12-16. I can’t quite recall as it’s been so long, but I think it’s was a print comic bc I remember running across a very marked up graphic novel of the series on Amazon in the 2012-4 year range. It wasn’t in English, but I would have gotten it if I had the money back then:/ C’est la vie, as they say.
I could be wrong about some of the details: I used to frequent a lot of scanlator group websites back then, so it’s possible I read it on a defunct website reader. I don’t seem to have bookmarked it on Mangafox, but I think it was deleted due to copyright reasons, so I may have removed it afterwards. Any assistance would be appreciated!
Edit: I believe it was Freaks’ Squeele. I randomly found it on the Franco Belgian page! Looking at the tropes page made me feel more certain and finding it posted on another website and taking a look at the main art rather than cover art cinched it.
Edited by JustneedtoaskaquestionopenA graphic novel series that ive forgot the name of Print Comic
There were these kids and there was this device that resembled an old fashion movie projector that makes a portal to another world and there were these shadow creatures that can kill you by touching you and the only way to kill them is with light and i remember a scene with sand whales. Also the main character got sick at some point and her grandpa knows alot about this world and they thought he was dead for a while. Also the main character has a clone that according to her grandpa "is the source of her sickness"Does anyone remember what its called?
openIntergenerational space colony comic Print Comic
I'm looking for a comic I read about a small space colony, formed by some people who ran away from earth or something.
The first settlers have kids, who take the ship they arrived in, and go trying to find another planet to live in or something.
The main theme of the comic is nostalgia, and the writer uses the space-time trope of light-speed time travel as a medium. For example, two women who are in love, one of them accompanies the kids, and come back like a year later. But the one who stayed on the planet is 20 years older. They still love each other, even when the older one gets married to a man. They live and grow old on the colonized planet, on a farm/cowboy lifestyle, with 21/22 century technology. One of the characters uses a 21 century pick-up.
The kids also find an alien species, who look like ants, and have a slightly different set of moral principles. In one particular instance, one of the ant-aliens kill a crew member with an axe, and then calmly tells everyone who saw it that it was in self-defence, and that he was scared of the crew member. It's ambiguous if it really was self-defense or more like "he had it coming".
Both the drawing and the literary style are realistic, modern, American style, similar to Y: The last man.
I'm 90% is a comic, and 10% that it might have been a webcomic. Read it in website to read comic online (you know which one).
What was the name of this comic? Can't find it in any of the tropes pages I remember.
Edited by SalvastalkeropenBoy Genius Detective Brings Folding Chair to Dinner Party Print Comic
Manga/manhwa/manhua or graphic novel in English (art in b/w but cover may have been using purple or a shade of brown) that I started reading in a public library, but can't find it now: Starts with a strong Hogwarts vibe (although I don't think there was any magic involved) with Dumbledore-like old bearded man bringing a young girl to the huge multi-story stacks in the school library as her new job. She's to be the assistant to this introverted teen or pre-teen boy genius who's called on to solve mysteries but doesn't like to leave the library. He receives an invitation to a dinner party on a ship, and insists that the assistant bring a folding chair. It turns out this was a good idea because there aren't enough chairs at the table for her to sit otherwise. There may have been something about there now being 13 people at the table. Didn't get far enough to see what crime would be committed, but everyone else there was older and at least a few were rich.
openComic about a ghostly figure taking out members of a heist crew who betrayed one of it's members Print Comic
Heist crew pulls a major job which may be a fortune from crime boss (not sure about it) and betray one of their members.
After a Time Skip, the heist crew members used their cut of the loot to become crime bosses of their respective ethnic groups eg Japanese guy becomes a Yakuza boss kinda like ''Kill Bill"
Guy in a white suit and (pretty sure) mask starts taking out the heist crew members. The heist crew members are not sure if the white suited man some sort of ghost of the guy they betrayed or someone else.
Edited by jormis29openBig Nate Comic Arc Print Comic
All I remember about it is that Nate goes to watch a movie by himself, but by sheer coincidence he ends up sitting right next to Gina, and the typical “Nate and Gina hate each other” stuff ensues
open18th century political cartoon with a Black Comedy Rape punchline Print Comic
I remember coming across a late 18th/early 19th century political cartoon, possibly around the time of the Napoleonic wars. I wanna say it was by James Gillray, or at least a similar artist from the same time period.
It featured two soldiers, two young woman, and an old woman (their mother or grandmother), with dialogue something to the effect of:
I was trying to find it as an example for Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?, but no matter what combination of words I searched for, I couldn't find it.
Edited by Admiralakbar1openNorwegian Political Cartoon With A Power Pylon Print Comic
So, someone commented this on a video of Manly Badass Hero's playthrough of Pylons: "This remind [sic] me of a satirical cartoon in a newspaper here in Norway several years back. It was about the controversial decision to build some giant power pylons, and depicted one of our polititians [sic] as a power pylon following another polititian [sic]." Does anyone know what they're talking about?
openComic series about a boy with colorful alien armor. Print Comic
I remember buying a couple issues at target. They were digest size. 90s (possibly 2000s, but probably not). This kid gets a bright alien armor that gives him powers and flight and fights other alien armors that are different colors. Not Blue Beetle and not Tech Jacket.
openManga about Fantasy trials that let you graduate (Boys’ Love maybe?) Print Comic
Making a list of manga and comics I read in my youth, and I’m trying to remember this manga that had an interesting, if not sort-of complicated premise. I know one of the American manga publishers of the 2000s licensed it.
So, first off, the main protagonist has a dated depiction of gender dysphoria, that being his privates are all weird where he could be mistaken for a girl, despite being mostly biologically male.
Being depicted as a girl is a fear of his, and he’s having trouble graduate high school (I think it’s high school). So he ends up finding this challenge where one must complete trials while acting out as their worst deepest depiction of themselves. In our protag’s case, it’s just him wearing a girls’ school uniform.
In the first volume, he comes across a student who lost her identity, being depicted as her having no face. Her backstory is that she did a lot of deeds and kissed a lot of ass in order to get into a college she wanted, but she got rejected, thus her form in the challenge arena is her having no identity.
Events ensue, and the main protag lets this faceless girl win, but at a cost. See, whenever a student wins a challenge is able to graduate the high school, everyone’s memory of that student disappears.
So the 1st volume ends with this other guy we met before who basically wants to “sissify” the main protag because he wants him to be his girlfriend.
Edited by TropeFanaticFanopenX-Men or X-Universe Comic Book Print Comic
I'm trying to identify an issue of what I vaguely remember as an X-Men or X-Universe comic, probably printed in the 2000s.
The major part I recall is the villain / antagonist, when confronted by the heroes / protagonists, stated that he was going to basically wait them out to achieve his plans. He said something about being long-lived or immortal and being able to wait until they are all dead to enact his plans / goals. I think it may have taken place in the club or casino he owned or worked in. The villain may have been a demon (I don't believe it was Mephisto). I think he was sitting in his office when the heroes confronted him. I think the interaction ended without a fight / violence.
openMe & Joe Priest (solved) Print Comic
A man lives in a post-apocalypse world. His profession is a preacher or pastor. When he goes to minister to women who are barren and can't conceive, he is actually getting them pregnant. Their husbands don't know this and think he is praying with them. It might have been a DC Comics graphic novel in the 1980s.
Edited by cameoguyresolved Fashion Manga where lady gets tutored by man Print Comic
Manga I read in my teens two volumes in; I know for a fact that one of the American publishers of the 2000s licensed it.
Basically it’s about some teenage/adult? Girl who wants to get better at picking up dates, so she seeks the help of some fashion expect. He had black hair I believe.
In the 1st volume, she wears an outfit that the fashion tutor to an admirer, but he says “something came up”. She heard him on the phone criticizing her outfit, and he finds out immediately . She almost gets kidnapped by this guy, but the fashion tutor saves her.
There’s also a big plot about her falling in love with and giving up a himbo to the fashion tutor’s sister.
At the end of the 2nd volume, after a basketball game, she realizes she has feelings for her tutor.
openNo Title Print Comic
In 2007, I went on a family trip to Las Vegas, where I remember receiving a comic book about these buff, anthropomorphized dinosaurs that I think was supposed to be educational, but mostly just stunk of that super-cool, monster trucks and flamethrowers vibe that little boys like me would just eat up. I honestly don't remember much about what the characters looked like, or even what the plot was, if there was any at all; the only specific things I can remember are a single line that I thought was silly that goes "Petry calls it ***lava***," rendered exactly like that. Judging from this I have to assume the other characters had a similar naming convention and that it was supposed to teach you Cool Dinosaur Facts, but that's about it. The other thing I remember about it was some kind of fake advertisement on the back of the comic for some kind of protein drink made out of mud.
openHumour Comic Book about Questions for Fantasy Adventuring Print Comic
There was a comic book that may be a translated comic from Europe that was set up as answers to questions about fantasy adventures with each answer being like one or two pages long.
For example one was like why do characters respawn or something and it had a minion kill an adventurer with an arrow shot from a wall and the rest of the minions come down and take the adventurer to be healed since without a hero the story will end and they will be erased from existence.
edit: There is good chance that it was French with a fan translation, something in my mind suggests that there is a connection Soleil's Goblins (2007)
Edited by jormis29openObscure comic regarding a detective who may have been a frog Print Comic
I can vaguely remember a comic serial which must have been British involving a detective, who was drawn very simply, with a black trenchcoat, trilby and bug eyes - he may have been a frog. He was involved in an adventure in which he fought a Fu Manchu type villain. He burned through a rope using a watch glass. The villain had eggs with lions inside them as a weapon. "Your eggs have little lions on them - our eggs have little lions inside them!" The title may have included the words "private eye"
Flipped through a horror graphic novel somewhere during the 2000's, most likely black and white
Family finds a black stain on a wall in their home that can't be cleaned, removed or covered up.
Anger and madness start spreading amongst the family. May have caused the Murder-Suicide of a neighbour and his Mail-Order Bride
The stain starts growing with the bloodshed and I thinks leads to the protagonist burning down the house to destroy the stain
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