Concept » Parody appears in 3678 issues.
The generic term for Multiverses or What If...? type scenarios. An Alternate Universe usually features pre-established characters living in different situations from those of the main continuity universe.
Also called "All Fool's Day" this is an old custom celebrated every year in most European cultures on the first day of April. During this day it is customary to play practical jokes, pull pranks or perpetrate hoaxes.
Black Comedy is found throughout many forms of fiction and comics have featured plenty of Black Comedy from different writers. A lot of the black comedy in comics tends to be found in mature comics.
Comic book versions of classic and popular media.
A Comic Book Convention, often referred to as a "Comic-Con", is a gathering or event where comic book fans, collectors, artists, writers, publishing companies, and vendors attend to celebrate, promote, and sell comic books and related media. Comic Book Conventions are held in various countries throughout the world besides the United States of America.
Deadpool variant covers with a comedic theme.
A prominent trope among several forms of media including comic books. The Doppelganger denotes a villain who is nearly identical to the hero in many ways, including background, personality and powers, but uses his abilities for evil rather than good. In some cases, this is used to show the reader what the hero could have become. In others, the Doppelganger serves as a thematic foil for the hero.
A literary term often utilized in theater to describe the imaginary barrier between the actors and audience, separating real world and fantasy. Breaking the fourth wall is observed sometimes in literature, where a character directly addresses the reader.
The humongous typewriters, computers, organs and other objects, that have a habit of appearing in (usually) Batman-comics. They are not limited to Batman-comics though.
Covers that pay homage to, or parody, existing covers or artwork from the same or different medias.
Scary stories.
is a tendency to provoke laughter and provide amusement.
Home reality of Spider-Ham.
There were 2 rounds of MAD variants: 2013 (13 variants), and 2014 (21 variants).
Marvel Apes takes place in an alternate universe, a simian-dominated counterpart to Earth that hosts ape versions of Marvel Superheroes.
Miniature versions of Marvel characters. The stories are focused on a young audience because of the childish art and the comical elements that are present in the stories.
Tezuka reused characters as if they were actors in what he called his Star System. These characters would appear in different manga as different roles.
Comics are not exempt from politics. Explicity or implicity politics permeates the ninth art, whether fictious or with great reality content.
Robot Chicken themed variant covers available for various DC issues released in March of 2014. There were 22 in 2014, and Aquaman had one in 2012.
Romance comics is a comics genre portraying romantic love and its potential problems like jealousy, rivalry, betrayal, and heartache. Romance normally features dramatic stories about the romantic relationships of older teens and young adults.
A series of one-shot comic books featuring different characters from The Simpsons.
A newspaper comic strip that ran in syndication from 1980 to 1995 by Gary Larson.
X rated comic strips, many which featuring characters from famous cartoons and comics or real life Hollywood stars. Most of them were made from the 1920's to the early 1960's
A genre typically depicting the American Western frontier set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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