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openComic about monsters and imaginary friends ( still unsolved) Print Comic
About 10 years ago my family went on a road trip and one of the things we brought along to read was a single issue of an old comic book. The overall plot was about a group of monsters who disguised themselves as humans and tried to live normal lives. In the issue a boy was spying on them at a carnival and gradually saw through their disguises. The thing that stuck out to me most was a scene when the boy was told to grow up.
Boy's imaginary rabbit friend: Don't outgrow us, [name]. *transforms into an eviler-looking rabbit* Let us grow up with you.
Then the imaginary friend tried to kill the monsters and it ended on a cliffhanger with one of the main pair of monsters in danger.
Edited by BobtheBoldoreresolved 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
openAnthology Evil Ocean Print Comic
I remember seeing an anthology comic a couple of years ago. It was about a girl with powers. If i remember correctly the ocean turns evil and starts overtaking the land. The main character was a young girl who could levitate. Also at the end the ocean looked like it was going to swallow her. Now I could be wrong about the ocean being evil. It could be a monster that controls water. There was a huge Art-Style Dissonance. I first saw this comic in between 2006-2010.
Edited by jjjj2openA show involving assassins, a family, and love Print Comic
Okay, so this show is basically one where the guy's known this girl for a long time and she suddenly gets taken back by her assassin family, so the guy goes to her house and kinda just does a couple of stunts all just to save this girl and eventually, to make sure they don't keep attacking him and preventing him from being with her, I believe he puts on a ring and decides to be inducted into this family of assassins as the bride of this harmless girl who's being hunted by pretty much all kinds of terrible people, and so, this moment begins his life as a part of this family of assassins, fighting off bad people and doing his best for his sweet, sweet bride. Am I making sense here?
openWhich Donald Duck comic Print Comic
It involved a segment where the triplets become fat, lazy couch potatoes. I saw it once while at a bookstore, but I can't remember the name of that particular comic.
openDonald Duck wishes for 'coconuts' instead of money Print Comic
I am trying to locate a particular Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge story. I think it is by Carl Barks but I wouldn't swear to it.
In the story, Donald keeps aggravating Scrooge by continually referring to money by various slang terms: 'coconuts', 'bananas', 'clams', etc. Donald and the nephews accompany Scrooge on an expedition to the South Seas in search of some sort of magical stone (my memory is bit vague on the details here). They travel to an island were the natives are depressed because no traders have come to buy their coconuts, so they have a huge glut of coconuts and no money. Donald does not pay attention to the islanders' plight as he is obsessed with finding the stone. When he does locate the stone, he wishes for 'a million coconuts' (meaning dollars). The islanders hear this and immediately pelt him with their stock of excess coconuts, then tell him he has till sundown to pay them for the coconuts. When Donald asks what will happen if he doesn't pay, they say they will gather up the coconuts and throw them at him again. The nephews save the day by finding the stone and wishing for a trader to show up and buy all of Donald's coconuts.
openManga about a school full of vampires (Solved) Print Comic
When I was a kid, I would occasionally accompany my mom to Anime Expo. Everyone year we would get swagbag that would contain random small prizes. One year, one of the prizes was a sample issue of a recently released manga. Despite the "Ages 14 and up" rating, I read it anyway.
It starts with a little sitting in the the middle of a snow storm. A man walks up to her and wonders what she doing out there. He then asks, "May I drink your blood?" However, before he can attack her, another vampire appears and attacks him, saving her. It then cuts to present day. The girl is now a student of a boarding school. The two groups of students: a day class and a night class. As the day class returns to their dormitories and the night class goes to school, the protagonist notices the man who saved amongst the crowd of night students, and comes to the conclusion that the night class is populated completely by vampires.
It scared me as kid, and was probably the first horror comic and the first "adult" comic I ever read. I think it was published by Shojo Beat, and even had a glossary of various manga-related terms in the back.
Edit: It's Vampire Knight.
Edited by datadoggieeinopenLooking for a manga (solved: Majime Na Jikan) Print Comic
A girl gets hit by a truck and dies, but she hasn’t confessed to her crush yet, so she has regrets. She tries to scare the one person who can see her, her crush’s love interest, who decides to help her solve her regrets. There’s a couple evil spirits and she befriends one of them. She also comforts her mom by leaving her a charm that was on her school bag. The cover of the manga features her backed by a sunset and surrounded by dandelion spores.
Edited by AmekaopenNot-dead kid graphic novel? Print Comic
I remember reading a graphic novel about a kid who gets shoot and the start of the GN is a calm "Life is wonderful, isn't it?" thing that then reveals he's dying (in the day his baby sister is being born, too).
He becomes a zombie and manages to get out of his grave after his friend digs it after he hears him making noises. He also finds and saves a friend after going to his house to get a human mask.
He also gets on the net after he chases someone/is chased and people upload it on social media.
Any idea about this?
openDemons Invade Earth Print Comic
It was a comic about demons invading and occupying earth. Maybe published between 2009-2013. The art style is realistic, not stylised. Mature content (nudity, blood). The main characters were a group of human survivors. I distinctly remember a few scenes :
- One where demons are marching a large column of human slaves out of a gate and one demon grabs a female slave and performs a soul suck that turns her into dust.
-There was also a strip club scene where the stripper either had four arms or four breasts. One of the main characters makes a comment "I wish I had four hands"
-One demon has a harem of human slaves and says the line "Poppa likes his sweets".
I've checked the appropriate pages pertaining to demons and hell on earth but none of the examples have been what I was looking for. If you have any titles that come to mind please let me know.
Thanks!
openElm Street Comic. Print Comic
This may be a print comic or possibly a web-comic, it's Nightmare On Elm Street related and it has Freddy fattening up a woman and also making a reference to the 'squeal like a pig' scene from Deliverance.
openSpecific spider-man issue Print Comic
I found this on the page Clark Kenting; there's an issue where Ben Urich gives Spider-Man an entire lecture on why he figured out his secret identity, and I just can't seem to find it. I looked it up online but nothing. I know that the issue was published sometime after a "Daredevil's identity leaked to the press", but there are a couple of those.
Any help?
EDIT: Never mind, I found it. The Pulse #4
Edited by LermisopenThe one with a city of lemmings Print Comic
What is the name of one of the featured comics in the Flight anthology series, which takes place in a World of Funny Animals? It featured a city inhabited by lemmings of some sort where citizens must travel along set paths on the ground, and deviating from those paths — regardless of circumstance— is punished with death: being dumped in a dungeon with a clear exit to the outside world, which lemmings are psychologically unable to go through because there are no set paths leading out of the dungeon.
Edited by Unnerving_PosterioropenExample from unknown work on Ambiguous Syntax page. Print Comic
I found the following example on the Ambiguous Syntax page. Anyone know what comic book this was from?
- A one panel comic in a British comic book had a workman who had just fallen off a ladder telling a passing hippie "Call me an ambulance!". The hippie replies "Okay, man. You're an ambulance."
resolved (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 TropeFanaticFanopenDonald Duck plays a fantasy table top war game Print Comic
I'm looking for a rather specific Donald Duck comic. I know I've read it in a Lustiges Taschenbuch (which means the story was most likely made by someone from Italy/Scandinavia), probably in the early 2010s.
I think that it involved Donald's miniatures (an army of skeletons) and those of Huey, Dewey & Louie (orcs, humans and... elves, I think) coming to life because he painted them with some weird chemicals. The combined armies then lay siege to Duckburg.
I know that sounds pretty stupid, but I just can't get it out of my head.
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.
openThis Character. Print Comic
A Marvel Comics and X-Men superhero who can tear off her own skin to reveal metal underneath.
openSome black and white fantasy comic that ran in an Australian kids magazine around 2005-2008 Print Comic
I think it ran in either Krash or K-Zone. I think the title started with an A, but I'm not sure. There were three main characters: a roguish man who was also a coward; a warrior woman; and a ditzy princess-like girl. I remember one issue where the ditzy girl got mad at the guy and said, "I'm going over here!" Then some creature started giving advice to the guy, misunderstanding that they were a couple. I think in a different one the guy was tied up for some reason, and the warrior woman was getting directions to some dangerous place, and the guy did a double take when he realised they were going to that place.
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.