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* ''Cable and Deadpool'' begins with [[Deadpool]] sitting alone in his shitty apartment, watching TV and lusting after [[Bea Arthur]]. The scene is revisited in panel-for-panel recreations a couple of times throughout the series, and then the final issue ends with Deadpool sitting alone in his shitty apartment, watching TV... and then [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|being joined by his friends]].
* ''Cable and Deadpool'' begins with [[Deadpool]] sitting alone in his shitty apartment, watching TV and lusting after [[Bea Arthur]]. The scene is revisited in panel-for-panel recreations a couple of times throughout the series, and then the final issue ends with Deadpool sitting alone in his shitty apartment, watching TV... and then [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|being joined by his friends]].
* A one-issue set of bookends happened in the first part of The Phantom Affair, in the [[X Wing Series]] comics. [http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/8814/blz02ps6.jpg "When you are a child], the world is full of wonders. [http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7556/blz03ws7.jpg When you grow up], though, wonders tend to have more mundane explanations." [http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5400/blz25fd4.jpg "The world is] full of wonders when you're a child. But sometimes, just sometimes, even a grown-up can meet with one."
* A one-issue set of bookends happened in the first part of The Phantom Affair, in the [[X Wing Series]] comics. [http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/8814/blz02ps6.jpg "When you are a child], the world is full of wonders. [http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7556/blz03ws7.jpg When you grow up], though, wonders tend to have more mundane explanations." [http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5400/blz25fd4.jpg "The world is] full of wonders when you're a child. But sometimes, just sometimes, even a grown-up can meet with one."
* ''Titans'' (as in grown-up [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]) #15 has [http://g.imagehost.org/view/0920/01_7 this] example of [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman]] at the start of the book, an outcast of his people, leading Atlantis, and [http://g.imagehost.org/view/0207/22_2 Tempest], Aquaman's former sidekick Aqualad, as an outcast of his people, leading Atlantis.
* ''Titans'' (as in grown-up [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]) #15 has [http://g.imagehost.org/view/0920/01_7 this] example of [[Aquaman]] at the start of the book, an outcast of his people, leading Atlantis, and [http://g.imagehost.org/view/0207/22_2 Tempest], Aquaman's former sidekick Aqualad, as an outcast of his people, leading Atlantis.
* The ''[[Astro City]]'' story "In Dreams" starts and ends with Samaritan dreaming about flying.
* The ''[[Astro City]]'' story "In Dreams" starts and ends with Samaritan dreaming about flying.
* ''[[Rising Stars]]'' begins with a burst of energy hitting a small town, giving unborn children super powers. By the end of the series, the last surviving member of The Specials (who now has all the energy of all the deceased specials combined) has built a spacecraft, and uses it to find another inhabited world and crashes down like a fireball, starting the whole process over again.
* ''[[Rising Stars]]'' begins with a burst of energy hitting a small town, giving unborn children super powers. By the end of the series, the last surviving member of The Specials (who now has all the energy of all the deceased specials combined) has built a spacecraft, and uses it to find another inhabited world and crashes down like a fireball, starting the whole process over again.