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  • Greg Stones' humorous illustrated work Zombies Hate Stuff features a list of things a particular male zombie hates (such as hippies and weddings), doesn't mind (such as mimes and help from the Grim Reaper in snagging victims), and really hate (such as dodgeball, being mocked by the Universal Monsters, and pterodactyl attacks). At the end, the book reveals the one thing that the zombie loves. YOU.
  • In issue 10 of the Adventure Time comic, as well as the KaBOOM! Summer Blast Free Comic Book Day Edition reprint, Ice King casts a spell that gives the reader control over Finn and Jake. Depending on the reader's choices, they may end up with one of three ways of getting their free will back, all of which involve messing with the reader: either Finn and Jake team up with Adventure Tim to overwhelm the reader with silly choices, Princess Bubblegum bribes them into relinquishing control with the prospect of seeing a "Royal Toot", or PB casts the same mind-control spell on the reader to force them to give up control of Finn and Jake.
  • Iznogoud: The artist himself was killed or petrified several times while drawing the magical effect of that week's Artifact of Doom.
  • One Tharg's Future Shocks strip by Alan Moore is about a group of astronauts who are "infected" by an alien idea which turns them into creepy Stepford Smilers, keen to share the idea with others. The narrator tries to explain the idea to the reader, but Tharg steps in and ends the story before he has a chance.
  • The Sandman (1989): Dream's normal home is, of course, the Dreaming, but he can visit the waking world (the "real" world) whenever he wants. The last book in the series is titled "The Wake" and it's narrated in the second person, implying that you (the reader) are watching current events.
  • Clue (2017) ends with practically an Overly Long Gag of this: After Mr. Boddy/Dr. Black succeeds in the plan that required him Faking the Dead, he orders his butler Upton — who has been serving as the omniscient narrator — to Leave No Witnesses. Upton ensures this by climbing out of the comic and proceeding to kill the entire production staff of the comic one by one. And then, in the final panel, he informs the reader that they're next.
  • In The Order of the Stick's print-only prequel Start of Darkness, the introduction is done by Miko Miyazaki. Rather than explaining the book itself (Which she hasn't read) Miko asserts that as a story going into origins and motivations of the villains, it and the author are agents of Evil who must be destroyed. At the end of the intro, Miko determines that if you, the reader, are planning to read it then you too are Evil, and tries to smite you.

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