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opencomic with a brother sister team Print Comic
I read a comic way back that I'm trying to find again. I believed it had a brother-sister team who used to be rulers before they were overthrown by the villain. They were going someplace and ended up in a cave of sorts where they got separated and had to deal with representations of the zodiac. I don't know how old it was.
openWizard of oz Print Comic
Could someone tell me any marvel,dc or image comics which involve a character going unconscious via a bump to the head then having a wizard of oz like dream if you could list some that would be great thanks
openVillain's girl-sidekick comic? Print Comic
I read it about a year ago, but it's about some teenager/young adult girl working for a villain. She wore a black jumpsuit and there was a guy that could turn into a mannequin, but he got smashed when he was in that form and survived as a ghost or something. Pretty sure there was time travel involved near the end of it. There was also another girl that could grow sentient carrots...?
openSupernatural manga where the main character dies in the beginning Print Comic
I remember reading a manga several years ago, but I can't remember a single thing about it other than some vague concepts and a single scene. If I'm recalling correctly, the main male character is killed in some way (I thought he might have been hit by a car) and is brought back to life. I think he's made immortal as well, and he's teamed up with a girl (or two?). All I really remember vividly is a scene where they're looking for some invisible enemy armed with piano wire, who attacks the main male by trying to strangle him with it to where it slices into his neck. The girl/s take out the enemy and talk while the boy lays bleeding out on the floor. I don't think it's Highschool DXD, as I don't remember the MC being a pervert or the series relying on fanservice, but I could be wrong.
openHigh School Fashion Show, Delinquent, and Gay Upperclassman Print Comic
It can be an OEL-Manga, a traditional Manga, or a Manhwa, published in English probably sometime between 2006 to 2010.
Here are details that I remember from the first volume, which is the only volume I read: The dark-haired male protagonist has switched to another high school (a private school?), and already has a reputation for trouble. He wants to get lucky with the ladies, but they're snobby at best. He meets a blond upperclassman with girls flocked around him on the stairs and sees this fellow as his mentor. The upperclassman guy recommends that he help work the fashion show coming up so that he'd get access to the ladies and get on their good side. Although the delinquent kid isn't keen on the idea, he does want to meet women. There's one girl in particular that he has his mind set on. She's one of the most popular girls, and she might have red hair, but she's also a jerk.
One scene features the male protagonist knocked out during gym class, and waking up to find himself in the ladies' washroom, stripped to his drawers, with permanent marker written on his stomach indicating lewd things about his junk, possibly to get him expelled from the school. There's an African American girl (or Japanese black?) who finds him and either tries to knock him out again, or takes his side on the matter due to the pettiness of the cliquey girls.
Toward the third quarter or end of the volume, a two page spread and coda for the blond upperclassman, waking up in a leopard print shirt with a feather boa, conversing with his pet bird, and musing about how cute he finds the main character, and how he wants to pursue him for himself. This section may have been demarcated with a colour insert.
Despite his interest, it's not a predominantly gay/yaoi-oriented comic, but one with an additional bit of intrigue garnered from it. I'm at my wits end trying to figure this one out, as I've scoured 'Slice of Life', 'High School', 'Romance' etc sections, as well as what limited OEL-manga information is out there...
Edited by EnerjakopenMagic Purse Print Comic
I'm asking for a friend, so I don't know all the details, but there was a comic from 13+ years ago about a girl who got a magic purse filled with normal cosmetics that had magic properties. Any ideas?
openFantasy manga from somewhere between 2000-2008 Print Comic
I'm looking for a manga I read part of at least 10 years ago. None of the things I can remember about it have been very useful in search engines.
Here's what I've got:
- There were 3 or 4 male warrior/knight guys who didn't wear armor, at least one used a narrow western style long sword.
- They all had pointy chins.
- They were long limbed (almost CLAMP style).
- They were old enough that at least two of them had a lot of personal history with each other.
- The art style used a lot of unrotated tones and some newsprint tones.
- The tone was pretty serious, with basically no comedy.
- The setting was fantasy medieval with some magic, one of the guys might even have been an elf.
- None of them were *gay* but there was a suspicious amount of "tension".
- The main guys were frequently in different places.
It was definitely not:
- Magic Knight Rayearth
- Tsubasa Chronicle
- X
- Fushigi Yuugi
Any help would be much appreciated. Even just questions that might jog my memory could really help.
openManga and manhwa? Print Comic
I got a copy of Yen Plus a long, long time ago and there were three manga/manhwa series that really stuck out to me. One of which was Pig Bride, but I can't remember the names of the other two.
The first one was about a monster hunter of some kind. The chapter was about a flashback, involving a beautiful young woman found by a mother and her adult son. The beautiful woman has amnesia, and the mother and son welcome her into their home. The mother makes cloth, and soon the beautiful woman wants to learn how to make cloth too. It is revealed that she can make the most beautiful cloth but needs to be locked away in private in order to do so. Two monster hunters enter a store where the cloth is being sold and reveal to the owner of the store that the cloth has been sewn with human body parts such as blood vessels. The son enters the weaving room to see the beautiful woman at the loom, with a scary face and possibly monster hands, and his mother's head is in a basket nearby (the beautiful woman killed her to sew her body parts into the cloth). It ends with the man having the flashback reflecting that the beautiful woman had not considered it "wrong" to kill people to make cloth since she didn't know anything else.
The second one I remember a bit less about and was cutesier. There is a contest to cook pancakes with shaped wire so that the pancakes come out in that shape perfectly. Some kids try with hearts, stars, etc. but fail. A man wins the contest after successfully using a complicated castle shaped wire to make a perfect pancake and he wins a giant teddy bear. The teddy bear has a person inside and it's implied that the man won the contest to save the person inside the bear. Then the man meets a girl who has a parasol, and she is scared of stepping into the sun because she feels like it splits her soul into two (or something). The man says that he avoids the sun because he sunburns a lot. The bear does comic poses and stuff throughout.
openhuge crossover comic from a kid's magazine Print Comic
A single stand-alone comic page I read in a kid's magazine sometime in the early 2000s. The premise was that there were so many characters in the comic that they could barely fit. Each panel would be a single body part (usually the hand) of two different famous cartoon characters, and it was a guessing game to figure out who they were.
It opened with Homer Simpson finding his donuts stolen. In the next panel, he asks for help from... someone, then perhaps in the following panel that someone accused Garfield of the theft, and in the panel after that Garfield suggests that Scooby-Doo can find the thief, and it goes on like that for a few dozen tiny panels all squeezed into a single page. SpongeBob was in there somewhere, and Sulley from Monsters, Inc., the Powerpuff Girls, Batman, and many others I don't remember. It ended with Spider-Man accusing the Grinch, then the Grinch confessing and George W. Bush thanking him for his confession, and finally Bush giving Homer a new box of donuts.
I don't remember exactly what magazine it was in or what month and year it was, but it was obviously during the George W. Bush administration, almost certainly within the first half, so around 2001-2003. If a scan of the strip exists online, I'd certainly like to see it.
Edited by trulymadmovesopenMarvel Comics Print Comic
A scene in a comic from the late 70s to mid-80s. May or may not be Secret Wars. A few heroes are talking, and a difficult choice is being debated. Professor X says, "If we did that, we'd be no better than Hitler, Stalin, or Doctor Doom." I remembered that while reading the Famous, Famous, Fictional trope and I'd like to include it there, but my recollection is vague.
openBest Out of Infinity... Print Comic
Does anyone know which Darkwing Duck comic it is that provides the picture for that trope? I don't think it's part of either of the two newer runs, unless it's from one of those I haven't read.
openPre-1960 comic book about boy and his adoptive father Print Comic
My mother told me about some magazine-shaped comic books she read as a child in the early 1960's. She says they seemed old when she found them, so they were probably printed well before 1960. The main characters are an orphan boy and a single Catholic man who adopts him and enrolls him in a Catholic school. The boy's placement test score puts him a year behind the other boys his age, which angers the boy. The boy and his adoptive father both have black hair with blue highlights. In the middle of each comic book is a history lesson. Does anyone else remember this comic book series?
openWhere is this comic book panel from? Print Comic
I need help finding out which comic book this panel comes from:
Obviously it's a Fantastic Four comic, but which one? All help is appreciated, thanks.
Edited by Loopytires55openEarly/Mid 2000s Animal Comic (North America) Print Comic
There's a comic from a children's nature magazine (National Geographic or Discovery or other) with adorable animal characters. One of the characters is a purple bat named Echo. What is the comic and/or magazine called?
openFuzzy creatures who hunt zombies in a post-apocalyptic world Print Comic
Hi everyone! About six years ago, I read a comic my friend had. It was about the fuzzy creatures that fought zombies. I remember that they were called something like Crapones or Clo- bis. There was an elite group of zombie hunters, and one of them was blind. There were two sisters who fought zombies together and I think their last name was Yelborne or something like that. The older ones name was Elease and she wore a cloak and had a scythe. It would be great if someone can help me remember this comic. It's been bugging me for a while. Thanks!!
Edited by PaddyroopenObscure Female Superman Villain Print Comic
There was a female Superman (or maybe Justice League) villain, who I believe was once listed on either the Totally Radical or Were Still Relevant Dammit pages. I'm having a hard time digging her up; I think she was a creation of the 2000's since she was suspected of being modeled after Lisbeth Salander in appearance/personality.
open90s Video Game Magazine Print Comic
Okay, slightly odd request this one. Does anyone in the UK remember the free supplement about Sega and Nintendo console games that came with a tabloid paper (possibly The Sun) in the 90s? Regular reviewer characters included the Old Git (a grumpy old man) and Auntie Mabel (a sweet old lady) - I may have got her first name wrong. There was also the Cheat who published a column of cheat codes and the No-Hoper, a useless player. The No-Hoper's column was directly below the Cheat's and in one issue, he wrote an extra long column which needed more space, so they gave him both slots and put the Cheat on the back page for that issue. From then on, the storyline featured an ongoing feud between the two. There was also a campaign insisting game cartridges were too highly priced and could realistically be sold cheaper, called (if memory serves) GYPD or Get Your Prices Down.
Really, I just want to know what the title was. I cannot remember and Google doesn't seem to know either.
openBlack and white print comic about goblins Print Comic
I'm looking for a comic I read in the late-nineties when I was a kid. I remember things about it, but not the title or publisher unfortunately. I highly doubt it was Marvel, DC or Image, but you never know.
This was a black and white comic- maybe B5 size-, most likely British, and about goblins. I remember it started with a spiel about why goblins were erased from history (e.g. there was an image of them fighting at the Battle of Hastings, the goblin said "cor blimey, mate, look at that thing coming towards your eye").
The main character was a human boy and I'm pretty sure that at one point he passed out and was given the kiss of life by a goblin lady, which caused him to start turning into a goblin because they have spider-like things on their tongues which transfer via kissing and infect you with, um, goblin.
I'm fairly certain I didn't just make this up, but when I tried googling it, no matter how specific I was all I got was a webcomic and the Green Goblin.
I asked my cousin if he remembered this comic and he said "the art was sick! Loads of snot, and the planet was shaped like a pear!"
openManga about a woman who's boyfriend sold her organs...(I might have some plot elements wrong) Print Comic
...and she has to work for some people (cyborgs?) who's language she doesn't understand to earn them back. (I only read the 2nd volume so I don't know the entire plot.) She carries around a doll that talks to her, and I think the doll contains her brain or her heart or something, and I think is missing an eye but I could be wrong. And she's not supposed to talk to the doll but it's the only thing she can communicate with (I think.) During the errand/mission she's given, she comes across a place where there's preserved organs (as in being kept functional,) and the doll warns her not to destroy any because some might belong to her. The plot and art style are pretty dark from what I can remember.

So basically, there's a comic strip that I found on the Internet where there's a little boy in a car, daydreaming, and he remembers about humans being mostly water so he worries that he'll melt if he drinks too much water, and I think he had an Imagine Spot where a narrator said he was 90% water. I think his name was 'Calvin', so maybe it was Calvin and Hobbes, except I don't remember a tiger being there.