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openComic Strip With Fake Ghost Print Comic
So I was reading the examples for "Bedsheet Ghost" when I came upon this:
"Parodied in a comic strip (title unknown). In it, a girl tries scaring off her brother by using the old Bedsheet Ghost trick but fails as the brother replies, "What's so scary about a bedsheet on your head?" Then she walks out from the room. Next thing you know, she finally gets to scare her brother... by putting a pillow over her head."
Does anyone know what comic strip they're talking about?
Edited by sRAMrelevratopenMarvel Comic Print Comic
I’m trying to find a Marvel Comic Book. It was the first one I ever had as a kid (not sure how I got it though) so it has some sentimental value but I lost it at some point when I was little. I remember it had Spider-Man, the Hulk, and I think Captain America fighting the Leader on a Submarine. It was also one of the older ones where they put the featured characters’ heads on the top left corner of the comic cover. Ring any bells? I really wish I could set notifications for these posts.
openManga about a homeless boy and a homeless girl Print Comic
As the title says, it's a Manga about a homeless boy and a homeless girl living in the streets.
It barely had any chapters back when i read it, but i think it was a slice of life type of manga, also remember the main characters looking pretty young but thats about all i can remember.
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 jormis29openShort comic by Alan Moore (not sure if author) with blank faces? Print Comic
I found it once by a fluke and can’t locate it again, but I think it might’ve been by Alan Moore and a couple others. Basically it was about how the current regime somewhere didn’t like LGBT people existing, so they decided to purge out all references to it in history by literally going back in time and erasing history. They found that they had to keep changing more and more, but eventually succeeded by making everyone exactly the same or something like that. The narrator of the story takes off a mask (?) at the end and reveals that he and everyone else has smooth blank faces. I really can’t remember much else, but I’m fairly certain of what I do remember. Thank for the help!
openFantasy Comic I Can't Quite Place Print Comic
I was reading something. I feel it was in the last 6 or so months but it may have come from before that. It was fantasy, but it felt high fantasy because I remember portals, an airship and I'm pretty sure the city the adventuring party ended up at was surrounded by a big magical barrier bubble. Anyone have any clue what this may have been?
openFrench post-apocalypse adventure for kids (solved) Print Comic
There was this Franco-Belgian comic in English translation that I found at the library, years ago. It was drawn in a typical kids' comic style, like Spirou et Fantasio.
The plot is about how a group of kids—fiveish children—one day discover that the city they live in is completely emptied of people. It was several books long.
Edited by MichaelKatsuroopenDonald 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 WolfThunderopenA 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?
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 WolfThunderopenComic 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.
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.
openObscure 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"
openFantasy/Romance Manga? Print Comic
All I remember is a chapter involving glasses that allows wearers to see red strings of fate and special nail polish that allows the wearer to cut them and retie them to change relationships. One of the male characters might have had a name similar to Ryu...
openSilver Age Superman Story Print Comic
Our "Bruce Wayne Held Hostage" page has this in the list.
" A variation occurred in a Silver Age Superman story. During an attempted heist at a museum, some goons take a bystander hostage and force Superman to help them. Only the "Superman" they have is a lookalike in a Superman costume on his way to his son's school, and the "hostage" is Clark Kent, who they grabbed before he could change clothes. The real Superman ends up having to use his powers to covertly make his kidnappers believe the fake one is the real deal until he can get him safely away. "
Anyone know which story/issue that was? it sounds like a good read, but google has failed me.
EDIT: pasted wrong one; fixed
Edited by lalalei2001openSearching for a dark fantasy comic Print Comic
Might have been a western comic, might have been a manhua, either way I don't remember much of it. It definetly wasn't japanese, might have been chinese or korean; I read a print version, the comic itself was pretty dark but had a beautiful art style, not colored; I remember a black-haired girl waking up in some kind of a train with a bunch of monsters (that hate her), who later turn into puppets in an enchanted forest? I couldn't make out most of the plot, but there was also a giant dreamkeeper lady who cried dreams, a guy who wore a cauldron for a hat, also pretty sure some manner of cannibalism was involved. Comic itself went out around 2009, couldn't find anything about it then, same as now. All help is appreciated!
openspiderman Print Comic
can't remember the name but it was a series of comics with a blond haired kid who in each issue pretended to be a different one of his favorite superheroes and at the end he met them
openBreaking Bones to Cast Magic Print Comic
I believe this was a manga, but it might have been a western comic, with a manga inspired style. All I really remember was it taking place in a world where you had to sacrifice part of yourself to cast magic. The main image I have is of a character breaking their finger bones to cast a spell.
openComic with mouth-erasing scene? Print Comic
I remember this one comic book that took place in a futuristic/sci-fi setting where a girl has her mouth temporarily sealed up by another woman during a meeting involving some councilmen or otherwise higher authorities. The girl was upset with a decision the authorities made(I think it involved her brother being sent on a dangerous mission) and was starting to speak out of line, so the older woman removes the girl's mouth to keep her from getting into further trouble. Her mouth is restored immediately after the meeting, but I seem to recall it getting sealed again not much later under similar circumstances.
I checked the page for Wipe That Smile Off Your Face, but none of the examples in the comic books section fit the description.

Anyone remember a comic featuring a bizarre Cosmic Entity that looked like a giant technicolor bodybuilder with the "Illuminati pyramid" for a head? I used to see the one page showing it posted on /co/ a long time ago, but I can't remember the title of what it was from, if I ever learned it.