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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 trulymadmovesopenFantasy 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.
openMagic 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?
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.
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 EnerjakopenSupernatural 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.
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...?
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
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.
openComic strip; little boy worries about being mostly water Print Comic
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.
openi only read one issue a in 2013, so i don't remember much Print Comic
superhero comic with loads and loads of characters.the issue i read had a werewolf esque superhero as it's main character, and revolved around a villain team busting their leader out of a prison transport the heroes were escorting. the villains had a floating magic eye that did some of the work and made constant eye puns (like "eye have seen to it") and one of their cursewords was 'squaj' or something like that. and one of the heroes was atomic energy in a containment suit that kinda looked like a red version of halo's mjolnir armor.
openA western comic or webcomic that was like a western Wolf's Rain? Print Comic
Years ago I saw online a few pages of a digital comic (which may have also had a print edition). From what little I've seen, it appears that the world is about to end and a group of sentient wolves will have an influence on the fate of the world. Reading it, I was reminded of the anime Wolf's Rain and I believe the makers of the comic cited Wolf's Rain as an influence. Of course there are significant differences, the wolves in this comic don't have a human form and the setting of the world is modern-day as opposed to the time-less sci-fantasy that was Wolf's Rain. The comic is beautifully drawn in a realistic style and if I remember correctly the scenes were mostly in a forest (there may have been a woodsman's cabin or a survivalist bunker) and maybe it was winter. Hunters in pick-up trucks with shotguns/hunting rifles were a major danger to the wolves, but they did have some allies including a woman who was a biologist (I think). There was some kind of prophecy and the moon played an important role to this comic, I even believe the word "moon" was part of the title of this comic. Does this ring a bell for anyone? (I believe the wolves were all white wolves).
openOver-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 WolfThunderopenTrying to find details on comic. Print Comic
I want to add an entry to one man industrial revolution. I remember once glancing through a comic where there's a montage of scenes where a character, who evidently has been absent for a year, explains how he was trapped on a planet of cave aliens that look like apes and he had to guide the natives from the Stone Age to launching a rocket for him to escape. I distinctly remember one panel has him standing among mission control of these "primitives" as they test rockets. I think he says it took him a year because he had to start from scratch. I believe it was an issue of Legion of Superheroes, so it might have been brainiac, but I don't recall him being green. I may be wrong. Can anyone help tell me what comic it was? I think it was as old as the '80s..
openVampire comic Print Comic
Looking for an indie early-oughts comic book about vampires, believe it takes place in New York, and I think the title was Trinity or something like it, but haven't been able to find it under that name.
The protag was a reluctant vampire (overly fond of black leather and straps) his mentor one of the Grigori, there was a Hispanic very joie de vivere vampire character, At one point, a black police officer discovered he was the reincarnation of George the Dragonslayer and attacked the main pair on behalf of some Illuminati-Templar order. Lilith was the Big Bad and first vampire, and her plan was to destroy the world by unleashing an army of dragons. Which actually happened. There were Angels too, the Archangels who were debating just blowing the trumpets and ending the world. An angelic sword also featured prominently in the plot. Does any of this sound familiar?
openit was a old comic, marvel, in the same volume as a she-hulk story (i think?) Print Comic
I can vaguely remember a few of the plot points of the comic, but not the names or the whole story. It's about a young punk, who has problems in school, before going to a snooker bar. There, he meets this bald guy with a futuristic gun, who has to recruit/rescue him. They go to this base inside a mountain in the desert. There he is trained. SO far as I can remember, everybody in that place are childrens of the same being (?), and they pop up randomly, to which the older members go and recruit/rescue them. The kid trains and grows up, and turns into the janitor there. He is redheaded, with a beard. There's a scene where he gets teased by other members, and he beats them with a mop, before they get interrupted by a woman giving birth (cassandra? cassiopeia? her name was something like this). The focus of the stories seem not to be the guy himself, but the rganization, but I'm not sure. It's a pretty old comic, prolly 80's, with a sci-fi vibe, not the usual heroes. If anyone can help me figure out what is this, I will be grateful.
openWHICH COMIC?!?! Print Comic
PLEASE WHERE COMIC WHERE MONKEY MAN BUYS LIKE A FROG TRUMPET AND HIS FRIEND HAS SUPER POWERS ALSO THERES A BIG FISH THATS LIKE A DRAGON KINDA BUT IT DIES :( (DID NOT LIKE THAT PART) I LIKE THE MONKEY GUY HES LOOKING FOR HIS WIFE IN THE COMIC WHO IS HE I FORGET COMIC NAME BUT ITS NEAT ITS GOT NICE ART I GOT BAD MEMORY THANK YOU TVTROPES.COM HAVE A NICE DAY
openCharacter who adds 'p' to everything. Print Comic
I have a vague recollection of a comic strip I read in the 80s (I'm pretty sure it was a reprint of something considerably older though). The main character is drawn funny, with huge jowls and vague features; everyone else looks normal, about Blondie level of detail. The protagonist has a speech impediment and pstarts pwords pwith a p. The plotline in this set of strips was rhat someone was breakin tnto the bank and leaving things in the safe no one could identify. A fat cop asked the protagonist for help, and he said it was him, leaving gifts. What are they? Pickled pkumquats.
openTamagotchi manga page I saw described on Deviantart? Print Comic
I know a Tamagotchi fan on DeviantArt who posted a deviation whose description says he remembers one of his friends posting a deviation addressing her concerns regarding the Mametchi x Lovelitchi vs. Mametchi x Himespetchi issue, but said friend deactivated her account years ago, and the only art of hers I could find archived was a Steven Universe drawing.
Anyways, the person describing the lost deviation says a comment posted on that deviation contained a link to a Tamagotchi manga scan suggesting Kiraritchi might be fighting for Mametchi's affections as well. Does anyone know if anything like this happens in the manga, and if so, which issue of the manga it's in? Just curious. Thanks in advance.
Edited by SparkPlugTheTroper

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.