Hi, I'm trying to find a comic likely from the '80s, the first I read as a child.

It was about a Smurfs-like population of beings that had red spherical bodies with a smaller sphere as head (black and skin-colored IIRC), with some kind of long pipe or trumpet as nose. They could fly (or some of them could). While most of them were generic, some of them were "specialized" in the Smurfs sense, i.e. one of them (likely a protagonist) had two nose-pipes instead of one.

Their antagonists might have been humans or some stand-in for humans (an industrialized society doing human things, mining, cutting trees etc) infringing on their territory, but that I'm not entirely certain of (might have been just a one-time thing in a single arc).

By the style it could have been something French or Belgian.

Any ideas? Thanks!

EDIT: this is roughly how I remember them (don't mind my pro Paint skillz): https://imgur.com/a/FMjlvkC

Maybe this isn't the subreddit's bread and butter but I'm kinda daunted so I'll give it a shot.

Something happened at home and it's lead to a bit of non-flood water damage and I've got two short boxes of comics that came off the worse for it.

Most of these are honestly things I grabbed from blind bundles that were packed with old 80s issues but a few are TPBs of great stories I would have liked to read again.

What's the good play here insurance claim wise, claim cover price on the tabs and just let the rest go?

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Hello! I've been trying to find some comics that I read as a child. The cover continued from the front to the back, and showed a number of dead marvel characters. Inside were bios of dead marvel characters. I thought it was called "marvel graveyard" but I can't seem to find them under that name. I want to repurchase them, does anyone here have any idea what the name was? Thank you for your help!

Hi, I am a new comic book writer. I needed some advice on the best way to experiment with panel layouts to enhance the story flow.

Hi! I am trying to read the Hickman/Krakoa era X-Men and have read through Reign of X, Vol 5. Is there a more reasonable way to read through the era other than these trade paperbacks? I know about digital, but I prefer physical. The amount of paperbacks is insane though, and expensive. Thanks!

I read a comic book in university. I can't remember much about it but I've been trying to find it for years. Everything is 2D. The main character is a guy made of squares or blocks and he's looking for meaning in life or something. He eventually works as a mechanic. He meets a girl that's made of colors and squiggles, different shapes than him. The center panel of the book is a giant crater. Please help me find this lost comic!

Well… pretty much that. I don’t know if this is the right place to post this but would his heal factor let this happen? Or deadpool’s?

I have a She-Hulk, issue 9 from 1989, and it has an error. The edges of the pages are cut wrong. They're crooked, some are hanging over, some are too close. it affects around five pages in the book. I was just wondering if anybody else has had an experience. Please let me know. Thanks.

He was first yelling about society and shooting people in the head

and then you see him wake up in the apartment, taking his pills, no costume, just a normal guy with black hair.

Only read the first issue, but i assume thats what it was about.

Outfit had a red theme and a gray mask, cant see his face. all i remember.

I'm looking for a specific comic book panel where American Dream (Shannon Carter) & Spider-man (riding the goblin glider) are leaping down from a building? Spidey is saying "Enough Talk,... Let's Make with the HOO-HA!"

Possibly a bunny, dog and turtle all friends. The turtle works at their father's pizza restaurant and fight against another pizza restaurant with like pizza ninjas.

I can't remember what it's called and it might be a scholastics books fair book

I heard Wolverine once regenerated from a drop of blood. Why doesn't he make copies of himself when he bleeds?

I'm trying to find a run from my childhood. Spider-Man gets kidnapped and drugged by a band of vigilantes that, to my memory, looked like a cross between Deadpool and Iron Man, but in a green and brown color palate. I think they were trying to avenge a sister or something who was killed maybe in the crossfire of a Spider-Man fight? One of them ends up realizing they were overreacting and helping free Peter.

Anyone have any ideas what this might have been?

I do know of the "The uninvited guest" manga but i was wondering if there are more Xenomorph manga

I want to read some Zantanna comics but don't know where to start... Plz give me recommendations

i read watchmen and kick ass and i'm hungry for more realistic superhero stories, except i want the heroes have a moral code they will stick to, a sense of justice and they stand for something good. pulp heroes are eagerly welcome, as i love golden age comics and pulp heroes like the shadow. i don't want the heroes to have powers or be a martial artist. that they get hit a lot and taken out, but they never give up and they manage to win, despite surviving by the skin of their teeth.

A long time ago in a country far away (Ca. 1994 in Belgium) I happened to leaf through a comics album in a shop, and I remember this vivid scene of a group of people entering a to them new landscape, a beach I think, and they were met by a humanoid apparition that whispered help or some such. Which turned out to be a plant-thing that had evolved the human-looking appendage as a lure to trap and eat (I think) humanoid prey.

I had to put the album down and move on at the time, without taking note of the name of the album, and I have looked for this story several times over the years, but never found it. I later came across Moebius' work and I felt it must have been him, but I am not sure. It certainly gave his vibe, or like a cross between the movie Annihilation and the series Scavengers Reign.

Does anybody know which album and artist this would be?

In Swamp Thing Annual #2, 1985, midway through Alan Moore's classic run. Deadman and Swamp Thing meet Phantom Stranger. Swamp Thing says, "I will be... in good hands... with the Stranger. We have met before..." What is he referring to? When did they meet previously?

I was thing of getting the kick ass comic but I'm trying to figure how to read it in order

I remember a Flash Gordon comic book from the 1960s. It had a map of Mongo on the back cover.

An Atlas of Fantasy by J.B. Post has a copy of that map on page 261 of the 1973 edition. It says the map is from the back cover of the September 1966 issue of Flash Gordon. That should make it easy to find the issue.

I remember a brief recap of past events in the comic book, including the struggle against Ming. That included a panel with the face of Ming and fighting spaceships. And if the picture elements are interpreted as being at the same scale it would make Ming a giant.

And I would like to see a in image of that panel.

I think most of us know that Thanos is the Marvel equivalent of the Darkseid in DC. Jim Starlin has even acknowledged this. While admittedly, I have not yet seen Avengers Infinity War or Endgame, and my knowledge of the new gods comes from Lego DC Supervillains, with names like Steppenwolf, Kalibak, Granny Goodness, and Dasaad, as well as the parademons. But I have the impression the Black Order is similar, for instance, the outriders are equivalent to the parademons. But is that a good analogy? Or are there any examples of equivalent characters in both groups? And as someone trying to catch up on the films and comics. any additional information would be really helpful!

Before Jor El sent Superman out in the escape pod he programmed the pod to basically absorb the dna of whoever opened it and change supermans appearance to match theirs and mix in their own, explaining how supes can get power from the sun.

I swear I remember reading about this somewhere on reddit maybe. Does this even exist? Did I make this up in a dream??

Here is a link to a question I asked about a Marvel Comic Book.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/286182/marvel-comic-book-from-c-1960-1970-villain-gets-exploded-by-their-own-bomb

Even though it is the correct answer, the page is different in one way from what I remembered.

I remember the character saying "No! This cannot be!" when they saw their doom coming. And I have always thought it would make a great scene where someone says "No! This cannot be!" and someone else at a safe distance says "Yes, it is."

So I guess I remembered the line "No! This cannot be!" from some other comic book. Can anyone remember that line from another comic book?

Back around approximately 1960, there was a comic book with stories about various ancestors of Bugs Bunny.

There is a a pun, describing someone as being "a weed in the days when knighthood was in flower". And I think I remember Bugs Bunny describing his medieval ancestor that way.

The only story I remember is about one of Bugs's ancestors who was captured by pirates. And I think that the ancestor tricked the crews of pirates with names like Red Beard and Blue Nose to fight each other. And after the pirates were all killed a navy ship came & started shooting at the pirate ships. The ancestors couldn't find a white to surrender with, and so hauled himself to the top of a mast show his white tail to surrender.

After the ancestor told his story, a naval officer said: "So you say you are just a victim of circumstances" and Bug's ancestor said "No. If Circumstances was in that battle, he was a victim of me."

Can anyone identify this comic book?

When I was about 7 years old (1988) I bought a stack of cheap comics all taped together. One of the comics was a police comic with a cerebus knockoff mascot on the cover. The comic was so boring that I did not read past the first two pages.

Years later (1994ish) I was reading a book on the history of comic books and it briefly touched on the history of 1980s adult comics. As an example of one of the more successful adult comics it showed the cover of a police comic with the same cerebus knockoff. I pulled out my issue of the police comic and sure enough it gets very adult in the last 6 pages. I was so scared my parents would find it I threw it away.

I think it is an amusing story that some comic book shop sold a 7 year old a "porn" comic and that the comic was so boring that I never flipped past the first couple of pages in over 5+ years. I would like the name of the comic to complete the story. I have never been able to find the name which is weird in that it was popular enough to be mentioned in a comic history book.

Things I know:

1. Adult comic

2)Comic was about a police department?

3)Had a mascot character that makes me think of Cerebus. I did not know who Cerebus was until years after this so my memory may be playing tricks on how much he looked like Cerebus. In my memory they are identical, but he may have looked completely different. Also it is possible that the mascot only appeared on the covers. I don't remember him appearing in the issue (what little I remember), but he was on the cover of my copy and on the example cover in the comic history book.

4. Issues were coming out sometime in the second half of the 1980s and it was popular enough to be mentioned in a comic history book published in 1993-1994.

Hi there,

I’m trying to remember the name of a sort of rare I think British comic from the 80s. It might have been in the vein of 2000AD. It was basically similar to Watchmen, a satirical dark look at Superheros maybe? Sorta A bit of a Judge Dredd Vibe. I think it was pretty violent and possibly banned. It might have focused on British culture to an extent as well? Explored themes of nationalism / far right etc. Any idea on what this was?

Hello AskComicBooks!

I am looking for an advertisement for electric guitars from some old books. I dug out all my old comics to try and find this advertisement but I have no luck. I pined over one specific guitar and want to finally try and find one as I am (much) older.

What I remember: There were 3 guitars you could send away for. I think two were pretty tame but one had skulls and stuff all over it. I am trying to find that picture! The ad was usually located with all the other ones in the big "squares of ads" kind of thing they used to do. I want to say it was in a Ghost Rider but I could be totally misremembering that.

If it helps, I used to read Venom/2099, Stormwatch, Wetworks, The MAXX, Gen-13, Shadowhawk, Deathblow, Cable, Spawn, Ghost Rider. Those were the mains!

Thanks very much for your time, it is appreciated!