Super Mario Adventures

Super Mario Adventures was a Super Mario comic that was published in the Nintendo Power magazine for quite a while, beginning in 1992. It featured many of the enemies and characters from the game Super Mario World, but had an original, quite funny storyline. After its run in Nintendo Power, it was published in graphic novel form.

Storyline
Mario and Luigi arrive at the Princess's castle, where a party is scheduled to take place in the evening. Unfortunatly, there is a huge mess in the plumbing! All the pipes are mixed up and disconnected! The Bros. quickly get to work, eventually clearing out the mess, leaving only one disconnected green pipe that they had not seen before. Suddenly, another green pipe, this one VERY large, pops out of the ground. Mario peeks inside and promptly is snapped on the nose by a Piranha Plant. At that moment, the Princess is playing Super Mario Bros. in the courtyard, accompanied by her faithful Toad courtiers. One of the Toad guards runs up with some very important news: Gigantic pipes are popping up everywhere! The Toad courtiers are dubious ("Popping pillars of pipe? Preposterous!!")

But, when they look out the window, they find it is true; not only are they pipes littering the palace yard, but at that moment, tons of monsters (all from Super Mario World, of course) including Monty Moles, Swoops, and Goombas, shoot out of the plumbing! Mario and luigi come up with an unique idea. Mario sticks a pipe in his mouth, wedges a Goomba in, Luigi jumps on his back, and the Goomba goes flying, oliberating all the other monsters. But just as the Princess and the Toads think that the castle is safe, a gigantic pipe shoots out of the ground, which contains Bowser and his Koopa Clown Car!! Bowser, after testing the mic in his hand, (and getting a gong bang from his kids) begins rapping. The message is that Bowser wants to rule the Mushroom Kingdom now, and he intends to do this by marriage to Peach!!! Of course, the Princess refuses ("IN YOUR DREAMS, and MY nightmares!" she shouts back),but the crafty King of Koopas, of course, won't take no for an answer.

He announces he'll be back in two weeks for her final decision, and to make the deal go a little more his way, he proclaims that if the answer is no, all her people will be turned to stone, giving her a demo on the Toads nearest him! (Even their screams of terror become rock!) Peach becomes extremely upset at this, and tries reasoning with the Koopa King. But Bowser, seeing as he's got her "over a berrel", so to speak, chuckles at her and rockets back down his pipe with the Koopalings. Peach becomes enraged and, with some of her faithful Toad courtiers, goes down the pipe too, hoping to strike a compromise with the King. Meanwhile, the Toads are trying to find the Mario Bros. to warn them about the Princess's departure, but a calamity has struck! Mario has been turned into a statue too! Luigi, however, doesn't seem to notice the difference, only that Mario isn't talking and is extremely stiff. One of the Toads saves the day by calling up the Minister of Massage, a mystic Toad who works wonders on the stone Mario and, one week later, Mario is back to his old self.

After hearing the news about Peach, the Bros. race down the huge pipe after her. The pipe is extremely long, and, unfortunatly, dangles in the clouds high above the Koopa Kingdom!! After a rough landing, Luigi gets his head wedged into the ground. Mario pulls him up to reveal a giant, green egg! They are quite hungry, so they begin a cookout. But the heat has a strange affect upon the egg, and moments later, a little green dino pops out of it, happily screaming YOSHI!

At that same moment, in the Koopahari Desert, Peach and Co. are hootfooting it to Bowser's Castle. Unfortunatly, their supply of water is gone, the troops are pooped, and everyone's dehydrated! The Toad leader tries to tell her that the search is ridiculous, and that ther's not a cloud in the sky, but just then a cloud appears an the sizzling sky! The Toads rejoice ("Quick! Let's do a rain dance") but the clouds are soon revealed to be Lakitu hideouts! ("HEEEELP! We must have done the wrong dance! It's raining Spinies!!")

Meanwhile, Mario and Luigi have become terrified of the dinosuar, thinking that their lunch is hungry for them! After shooting off from the dino, Luigi collapses ith Mario underneath a bush, which turns out to be a Wiggler's home! Mario tries to "save" (the Wiggler isn't attacking him) Luigi, but when stomped on, the king caterpillar gets all the more upset! Racing away, they find Yoshi blocking their exit, but the cute lil' dino slurps up half the Wiggler, stuns the other half, and has a delicious dinner. Then approaching the Bros., he motions for them to get on his back, and awaaaay they go!