Longest speech in comics, ever.

[midgetradio]

Hey all. Just wondering what is the longest speech you've read made by a character in a comic book? How many words was it, and how much of the panel/page did it take up?

[svp]

Silver Surfer. He did these soliloquies while surfing through space. Rambling on and on. Page after page.
It's been sussed
Silver Surfer was co opted by Stan Lee to specifically allow him to speechify his personal views.

[Angilas-Man]

Weren't there issues of Cerebus from after Dave Sim went off the rails where entire issues were taken up with a conversation/interpretation of Genesis that was rendered as pages upon pages of small text punctuated by occasional drawings?

[Paradox]

Didn't they make a comic out of Atlas Shrugged? I can only imagine Galt's speech in comic form (how many issues????).

[Spike-X]

Didn't they make a comic out of Atlas Shrugged?

Almost.

The proposal would have had Steve Ditko (an Objectivist, who as illustrator was the co-creator of Spiderman) draw the story.

Damn right.

[Spike-X]

The longest speech I can remember in comics was that issue of Batgirl a few years ago that had four solid pages of expository dialogue, bringing readers up to date on previous events.

[Captain M]

I couldn't even finish Avengers Forever #11 , that Immortus...

[thehod]

The one William Gull gives in From Hell #4 goes on for nigh on the whole damn issue.

[Spike-X]

The one William Gull gives in From Hell #4 goes on for nigh on the whole damn issue.

The tour of London? I'd forgotten that one.

[the4thpip]

The longest speech I can remember in comics was that issue of Batgirl a few years ago that had four solid pages of expository dialogue, bringing readers up to date on previous events.

That's what I was thinking of.
When DiDio tried to make it up to Cass Cain fans that Adam Beechen had completely destroyed her character by producing a mini series with .... Adam Beechen as writer.

edit: here it is.

From the comments there:

Makes me long for the brevity of Claremont…

Ha!

[Iangould]

I strongly suspect the eventual winner will turn out to have been written by Don McGregor.

[infinitEEntropy]

Hey all. Just wondering what is the longest speech you've read made by a character in a comic book? How many words was it, and how much of the panel/page did it take up?

Just read any Brian Bendis book. There will be tons of dialogue.

[Slam_Bradley]

I strongly suspect the eventual winner will turn out to have been written by Don McGregor.

At least then it's turgid.

[Spike-X]

Just read any Brian Bendis book. There will be tons of dialogue.

Yeah, but he's not asking about dialogue, he's asking about monologue.

[Michael P]

Not the longest, but one of my favorites.