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open[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 EarnestopenNo Title Print Comic
The book was about four kids, led by a young black girl, who can travel to a different dimension through a magic(?) movie projector. They are locked out if the projector is off, and they jam it to keep it on with an action figure, which subsequently breaks. There is also blue goop that can possess people and zombify(?) them. It was in the kid’s section of the library, but was a bit creepy for the kids that were there. I really would appreciate it if anyone found it. Thanks!
openUsborne (?) Puzzle Book Print Comic
I recall, probably in either the late 2000s or early 2010s, a book of puzzles centering around a single object (possibly a gem?). There were five or so different storylines consisting of smaller puzzles such as mazes set in different time periods, but all mixed up chronologically though the book — the metapuzzle was to determine the order in which they occurred. I recall for certain that one of the time periods was a futuristic space-travelling sort, and I think another one was circa the Age of Discovery and another was medieval?
I searched up the Usborne puzzle books, but it doesn't seem to be any of them.
openBig Nate Comic Arc Print Comic
All I remember about it is that Nate goes to watch a movie by himself, but by sheer coincidence he ends up sitting right next to Gina, and the typical “Nate and Gina hate each other” stuff ensues
resolved 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 TropeFanaticFanopenHelp identifying a comic book 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.
openX-Men or X-Universe Comic Book Print Comic
I'm trying to identify an issue of what I vaguely remember as an X-Men or X-Universe comic, probably printed in the 2000s.
The major part I recall is the villain / antagonist, when confronted by the heroes / protagonists, stated that he was going to basically wait them out to achieve his plans. He said something about being long-lived or immortal and being able to wait until they are all dead to enact his plans / goals. I think it may have taken place in the club or casino he owned or worked in. The villain may have been a demon (I don't believe it was Mephisto). I think he was sitting in his office when the heroes confronted him. I think the interaction ended without a fight / violence.
openComic series about a boy with colorful alien armor. Print Comic
I remember buying a couple issues at target. They were digest size. 90s (possibly 2000s, but probably not). This kid gets a bright alien armor that gives him powers and flight and fights other alien armors that are different colors. Not Blue Beetle and not Tech Jacket.
openFrench (?) Comic Print Comic
I read this first volume of a comic in France in 2012-2013. From what I remember, it's about a boy who was, or should be, the King of... somewhere? The North, maybe? I think I remember inuit-style clothes. And this boy has to flee, and maybe goes to a city. With him goes this big animal, maybe a bear, who can talk. I have a vague impression the name of the comic has the word King, too. Thank you.
openMe & 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 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 dutchguy1986openWho Killed Captain (Something)? Print Comic
A comic about a group of small town kids who discover the town eccentric, a homeless man wearing a makeshift superhero costume, dead. As they don't believe the official explanation that he die due to drug or alcohol overuse, they investigate, and discover the old man might've been a real superhero. I haven't read it and don't know how it ends, but that does seem to be what the comic implies.
From what I could tell, the comic was like a subversion of superhero stories, in the mold of Powers or Flex Mentallo, but also has elements of Amblin-inspired "kids riding bikes discover old secrets" stories.
I'm not sure about the title format, but I think it was something like "Who Killed" or "The Death of" and the superhero name, "captain (something)" or "(something) man", although I might be wrong.
Edited by Mac_RopenComic strip about a girl talking about road trip games Print Comic
In my middle school art class, my teacher would keep some supplies in old cigar boxes. One of the boxes had a comic strip taped, possibly in an attempt to censor a tobacco reference.
In it, a girl was doing a show-and-tell presentation about games to play on road trips. Among other things, counting all the strange brands of potato chips encountered and all the kid who flipped you off on the way. (How this was allowed shocked me as a kid.)
The art looked, for lack of a better term, “underground.” It may have come from an art or comix magazine of some sort.
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 jormis29openNo Title Print Comic
In 2007, I went on a family trip to Las Vegas, where I remember receiving a comic book about these buff, anthropomorphized dinosaurs that I think was supposed to be educational, but mostly just stunk of that super-cool, monster trucks and flamethrowers vibe that little boys like me would just eat up. I honestly don't remember much about what the characters looked like, or even what the plot was, if there was any at all; the only specific things I can remember are a single line that I thought was silly that goes "Petry calls it ***lava***," rendered exactly like that. Judging from this I have to assume the other characters had a similar naming convention and that it was supposed to teach you Cool Dinosaur Facts, but that's about it. The other thing I remember about it was some kind of fake advertisement on the back of the comic for some kind of protein drink made out of mud.
openA comic printed sometime between 2013-2015 Print Comic
The main character was a Wolverine looking dude protecting a newborn in a snow-covered post-apocalypse and pursued by a bald-headed preacher looking man who seemed to control these blood-red flesh-monsters that had wrecked human civilization as I remember it. I picked up a few issues some time in the early mid-tens when it first released.
openJudge Dredd story where he fights the Devil. In rhyme. Print Comic
I'm looking for a particular Judge Dredd story which I assume was in an issue of 2000 AD. It would have appeared in the late 80s or early 90s.
I think it is Christmas story. In it, Judge Dredd confronts the Devil (I think on Christmas Eve) and winds up defeating him and arresting him for the crim of 'sin'. At the end of the poem, it is revealed that the Devil is held in Cell 666. The narration and dialogue is told in the form of a poem.
Anyone know where this story appeared?
openMarvel character with Friction powers Print Comic
There was this Marvel character I read about a while back in what I think was an issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. He or she had the power to remove friction. I believe it was a bad guy, who Spider-Man had some trouble with.
I don't think this was the character Charlotte Beck, AKA Friction, because as far as I know she never appears in any Spider-Man comics.
openAngry Birds parody Print Comic
I remember reading this (non-comic) magazine that had this cartoon that was sort of a parody of Angry Birds. Except this wasn’t a colorful bird like the ones in the game, but a more realistic bird. And this bird was loading itself on a slingshot. All I know is that it is from a magazine like New Yorker, or Forbes, or Time.
The mother horse dies in childbirth and the baby horse has to be sold because the farm is shutting down. There's a recurring thing about their noses being soft as velvet.
Does anybody else remember this print comic? Thanks for reading.
Edit to Add: Was in circulation in the 1990s.
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