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resolved A supervillain comic Print Comic
It has a Villain Protagonist who is an Expy of Bruce Wayne becoming an Expy of The Joker. He has a blank, white featureless mask and one issue cover had him painting a Slasher Smile on it with blood. IIRC one issue also had him kill president Obama with a spear to the head.
resolved Time travel story with changing memories Print Comic
I think I read about this one somewhere on TV Tropes. I remember it being a comic book but it might have been something else with visuals involved. The basic story is that a time traveler goes back in time in an attempt to change history. However, it turns out that the time traveler doesn't have Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory, so they keep coming back to the present and being annoyed that nothing changed, even though the comic's illustrations show that they're actually causing greater and greater changes to the timeline.
resolved Paperinik, Phantomias, Superduck, PK, Super Donald, Phantom Duck or whatever he is called Print Comic
I'm looking for the comic where Donald goes to the future and finds out that among other things his nephews are continuing his super hero work. Despite all three of them working together the beagle boys are still outmatching them, until Donald takes HD&L to the hideout of the burglars which he knew about because they also used it in the past/present
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved Horror Comic with Grotesque Girl (SOLVED) Print Comic
This one's actually kinda famous, but I can't really find it online since I don't know the magazine that ran the story:
A man's hunting in the woods when he sees another man with an axe, about to chop off the head of a young girl - she seems to be attractive, but there's a bag over her head. He kills the guy and saves her, takes the bag off to find out she's hideously disfigured.
Still, he takes her home and treats her well despite her appearance. At first, his family is supportive, but she starts acting agressive. One night, she forces herself on the guy. The family abandons him, saying he's obsessed with the monster. The grotesque girl ruins the man's life.
In the end, he takes her to the woods to chop her head, and ends up being killed by another hunter.
It's a black and white horror comic, probably from the seventies or early eighties. Around 16 pages.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved (SOLVED) Graphic novel about teenage girl w/ depression Print Comic
The front cover was all black and all it had was the title, the author's name, and a picture of the main character. She had brown hair, a green sweatshirt, and bags under her eyes.
She was in middle school (high school?) and all I remember was that she would enact self-harm by cutting scars into her arms.
The art was also very simplistic.
Edited by TropeFanaticFanresolved Donald Duck stories Print Comic
I'm looking for two Donald duck stories. I want to say they are by Don Rosa or Carl Banks but I'm not sure.
In the first Donald is tasked by Scrooge to return a cursed amulets to let it's rightful owners (amazones I think). I remember the owners using a waterhose to keep anyone claiming to have the amulet of their property because anyone who does have the amulet wouldn't let that stop them.
In the other Scrooge misses hunting for treasures so Donald and the nephews hide one of his treasures, make a map which they hide in a condemned building and have Gyro erase their memories. At the end it turns they found the wrong treasure and the house with the map is torn down
resolved Autobiography comic book about a little girl in former Soviet Union Print Comic
There was this comic book I once got my hands on briefly. It was an autobiography about a little girl living in one eastern block country. I think it was either Poland or Ukraine.
The front cover depicted the girl holding a plush toy while standing among soviet soldiers who were only shown from waist down - the upper halves of them were beyond the frame.
resolved Graphic Novel about a spreading stain on a wall causing madness Print Comic
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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Edited by jormis29resolved 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.
resolved horrormanga solved Print Comic
I remember an anthology manga where one chapter was about a cursed wooden classroom stool, that kills everyone who uses it. They end up using it to punish bullies and in the end the stories protagonist is forced onto it after refusing to make her best friend sit on it
Edited by dutchguy1986resolved Me & 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 Help identifying a comic book (SOLVED) Print Comic
I'm trying to identify a recent comic book (I believe it was published within the last 3-5 years). I'm unsure if it was a mini-series or one-shot; I don't think it was an ongoing series. I don't think it was either DC or Marvel. The main character is a Black woman with a crowbar. I believe it takes place in the 1970s, or at least has a 60s vibe / ethos. I think it had some supernatural elements to the story.
Edited by cameoguyresolved Manga about little vampire girl and her adult human companion(SOLVED) Print Comic
So I'm making a list of manga I read during my developing years (1 to 18), and I'm trying to remember the name of this vampire manga I read as a kid.
It's about this little vampire girl and her human friend/guardian/companion she has around. I only recall the first few chapters of it as that's all I had a chance to read, but I remember one distinctly:
It involves the little vampire girl meeting up with a friend who's a little vampire boy at a hotel. He tells her you can control human minds by looking to their eyes, something he did for the human servant he now has.
Later on,s he gets curious and decides to do that with her human friend. After doing so, he wonders if it worked, and decides to test it out by asking him to get her some cake.
She's still unsure, so she then requests her "master" kiss him, to which he obliges. She then gets freaked out and starts crying, only for her human friend to reveal he was pranking her.
That's about all I can remember, other than the fact that "vampire" was in the title of the manga I think.
Edited by TropeFanaticFanresolved [Answered] Burnout leads a mom to rework her life, help family Print Comic
Hi all, thanks in advance, fingers crossed. This was I think a French comic, but I read it in English. It's set in the modern day, the main character is a mom who works at a big company dealing with orders by phone. The execs and work culture focus on being "nimble, agile", and eventually she faints during a stand up meeting due to burnout / stress.
The rest of her family deals with the problems of modern life. Her husband is worried the international bakery he works at will kill the local wheat with over reliance on fertilizer. Their daughter is blindly following an influencer whom she realizes cares about her fans only as consumers of her beauty products.
The mom slows down her life, learns about resiliency from a botanist neighbor who helps revive the family fern.
The family goes on a vacation to a cabin in the woods, the father and daughter reconnect. It ends happily with the mom returning to work completely rejecting her boss' nimble ideology for one with stronger boundaries, and a slow growth. The husband quits his job and starts a local bakery using non-GMO local wheat that survived the fungus killing the main crops. The daughter changes her Vlog to a self-care, no-filter (as in, no beauty product, self care focused) lifestyle.
Edited by Earnestresolved 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.
resolved Garfield strip where he changes the shape of his teeth Print Comic
In this strip, Jon is telling Garfield that he sometimes can't tell if he's happy or angry. Garfield smiles normally and says that now he's happy, then smiles the same way but now his teeth are sharp and says that now he's angry.
resolved French comic about popular fictional characters going to therapy Print Comic
I'm trying to recall the name of this parody comic series in France. The gist of it is a number of illustrators, cartoonists, and artists will take a well-known character from pop culture, and they'll draw them going to therapy, specifically with a therapist listening to whatever problems they are going through related to their franchise/TV show/what have you.
The first volume for this series had a red cover; Mickey Mouse, Batman, Mario, and UFO Robot Grendizer are floating over each other, while a chaise longue is on the floor beneath all of them.
(I also recall their being a Tumblr blog that hosted some of these drawings, but I can't find this either).
resolved Mickey Mouse comic Print Comic
I once had a Disney characters comic
of 3 stories, the first ("Let's Get Kraken") and the 3rd featuring Donald Duck, and the 2nd featuring Mickey Mouse. It's the 2nd one and the 3rd (striking cuz I found it that I'm having trouble finding the titles of.
from this site, mentions Gemstone publishing.
)
- The Mickey one starts with Goofy's interview. When he's told to interpret some ink blots, one design in particular hypnotises him, and the interviewers as well. The aim of those hypnotised seems to be to get more people hypnotised, including the police force (Officer O'hara included) and collect equipment, especially black paint cans. Then they board a spaceship that Mickey follows on, he finds that they'll paint on the moon, and that the mastermind is the Phantom Blot (this is where I first knew of him, btw). He maroons Mickey on the moon, who mops up the design, but almost goes unconscious until an alien helps give him oxygen and finish cleaning faster. Then the alien gives him a space skiff(?) to depart, and helps the spaceship of ex-hypnotised folks to land safely. I know the Phantom Blot is a recurring enemy, but I can't find "moon" or a relevant use of "alien" on Mickey Mouse Comic Universe.
EDIT: Okay, looks like all I needed to do was dig a bit deeper still. This site gives the exact book I had in its US publications list
, and the 2nd story is called "Blot Clot".
resolved Bizarro Print Comic
There is a comic called Bizarro that is found as a strip in newspapers that I'm looking for. It's made by Dan Piraro. Does anyone know where I can find its media page?

I remember having a Hulk comic book around the late 80s or early 90s. The story line started out with Bruce Banner observing a gamma radiation beam coming down to Earth carrying a woman with green skin. Then he sees these men with red skin come to assault and capture her, so he goes to assist her as the Hulk. Somehow or another they board an alien ship where they teach the Hulk their language so he can communicate with them when he gets to their planet. Long story short, the Hulk leads a revolution against the red people who have been using the green people as slaves and heads back to Earth on a one-way trip. As he travels home, he is able to look at the planet one last time and sees that the green people are now treating the reds as badly as they were treated. The Hulk weeps and the comic ends. Anyone remember which issue this was?