OK, you gotta admit the several mini series of Damage Control are max funny, but the crowning moment of funny is the flashback to their getting trapped with the X Men in a malfunctioning danger room filled with lethal classic comedians and clowns. Nightcrawler slipping on a banana peel? Colossus thinking he’s defused a bomb only to have it go off it his face? “Stooges at 6 oclock!” “I’m on it!” Wolverine getting a pie in his face? Common, that’s hilarious.

And the Justice League International run, where an entire issue involves hero and villian attending the same French language class, but don’t realize it until the class is half over? Again, crowning moment.

And last, the Ambush Bug versus the Legion of Substitute Heros issue, many years ago. The Bug simply enjoys the Disney Land he’s landed in while the Substitute Legion fail miserably to catch him.

1) Superman/Batman with the mini JLA (especially the scowling mini Batman with eyes in his bat insignia and the LEGO-figure Red Tornado).
2) New Avengers #50 when Clint Barton says, “That’s Bullseye, dressed as Hawkeye,” to which Spidey responds “you’re dressed like Echo.” (Many other good lines in that title- BMB writes a great Spidey, IMHO.)
3) Every freakin’ issue of Secret Six has me in tears (in a good way) – it has surpassed Birds of Prey as the book Gail Simone was born to write.
4) Almost every Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle story, especially when Paco and Brenda fight. (They’re like little Happy and Pepper, arent they?)

Cheers,

B

Non capes: Ivan Brunetti. So funny and so wrong.

1) The demons from another dimension doing the dancing beat (forgot what it was called);
2) Machine Man quoting “Death to the fleshy ones!”

The Tick’s best moment of brilliance had to be in the first series, when the ninjas were disguising themselves as a hedge…by holding up a single branch and saying “We are a hedge. Move along.” The Tick, being an idiot, can’t tell and Oedipus has to tell him. So when they attack later, the Tick yells a warning to everyone else.

“HEDGE~!”

I was in tears. Brilliant. Doesn’t work as well without the visual though.

Preacher had some side splittingly funny moments with Herr Starr, but I can’t remember enough of the specifics anymore. They’re all great though.

Fun list.

I have also had some tremendous laughs from PETER BAGGE, CAROL LAY (‘The Job Thing’ is phenomenal!) as well as ALISON BECHDEL.

Anything DAN SLOTT writes is funny to me; both of his ‘She Hulk’ series, the ‘Spider-man/Human Torch’, and ‘Great Lakes Avengers’were superb.

BRIAN K. VAUGHN is another one. ‘Ex Machina’ has a lot going for it, but genuine crack-ups in the midst of taught drama is a real test!

Thanks for the list!

Luke Cage: “If this doesn’t work…”
Spider-Man: “I’m already peeing.”

Mauro, that is a classic to me. Good call.

I haven’t followed the Avengers or the X-Men for a long, long time, but there was something I saw in a preview which made me laugh heartily. New Avengers #50, after Wolverine announces that Daken is his son. There’s a stunned reaction, then a panel of silence, and the Spider-man breaks in with “You’ve had sex?”

These are not my Avengers, and I have no idea where this Daken character came from, but like Larry the Cable Guy said…”I don’t care you you are, that’s funny right there!”

The artist (can’t remember his name!) rendered the facial expressions of Jonah and his lawyer so pricelessly in their reactions to Spidey’s remark, total shock and denial, only for Spider-Man to giggle and say, “Just kidding”.

Great stuff.

But my favorite moment was What If Daredevil were Deaf, which was written and illustrated by Frank Miller. Daredevil is kicking some serious ass, but doesn’t hear that all the thugs have been trying to give up and “talk” the whole time. These are the only scans I could find online (http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/earthdddeaf.htm).

Of course, I was about 10 years old at the time and I had traded the first three issues of Alien Legion for the one issue of What If, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

“I am resigning. From life.”

“I have re-invented suicide as a group activity. Go me.”

“IMMA WATCH TEE-VEE!”

“I think I’m having a nervous breakdown.”

And, of course, his speech about what ended up happening with his marriage. Classic.

Most of The Tick, as well.

There are many, many moments in Cable & Deadpool, including Bob’s pre-programmed reactions to Hydra’s many enemies (including, amongst others, Wolverine), Deadpool reclaiming the theme song to Land of the Lost (“Deadpool, Bob and Weasel, on a routine expedition…”), Weasel infiltrating Hydra as “the Pene-Traitor”, the many C & DP sunbathing fantasy sequences, Deadpool’s insistence multiple times over the course of the series that he was an X-Man (“I have a Marvel Girl costume that disagrees with you!”), Deadpool going after the Great Lakes Avengers not knowing that they’ve already registered, Cable watching The View (“Rosie’s made it interesting, don’t you think?”), Deadpool and Citizen V continuing to fight for reasons unknown even to them after discovering they’re on the same side, and many, many others.