The Classic Quotations Thread

[Aaron Kashtan]

Time to revive this thread from the old forum. In this thread, you are invited to post any quotations from old comics that strike your fancy.

I'll post the first one:

COP #1: [reading Dragon's fan mail] I got one that says he's got a noisy neighbor he wants you to clobber.
COP #2: Heck, I'll do it. I could use the exercise.

--Couldn't we all? Savage Dragon #12, dialogue by Erik Larsen.

[David Porta]

"Where Soars the Silver Surfer!"
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Fantastic Four #72

Page 13, panel 5

Sue Storm:
"But what ... can he do ... against the all-powerful Silver Surfer??"

The Watcher:
"All-powerful? There is only one who deserves that name! And His only weapon — is love!"

Love is my weapon, too, honeys!

Praise Jesus!

YEEE-HaaaA!

~Dave

[Aaron Kashtan]

SUPERGIRL: Cousin? I just thought of something... As the Supergirl of this era, am I away visiting another time period or something? Because I thought you couldn't materialize in an era where you already existed.
SUPERMAN: Uh, yes. Yes, you're right... Right now, Supergirl... Supergirl is in the past.

--It was a while before I saw the hidden meaning of this line. From Superman #423, "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?," script by Alan Moore.

[Aaron Kashtan]

DRACULA: What are you staring at, fools? Begone!
MAN: Hey, man, don't get so uptight. I just dig the way you're dressed.
DRACULA: You will "dig" nothing but your own grave.

--A sharp comeback! Tomb of Dracula #37, script by Marv Wolfman.

[interstate shogun]

"Twenty million die by fire...if I am weak.."

-Superman trying to stop a launched nuke in The Dark Knight Returns

[David Porta]

We ... dutifully follow our leader. Not you, Father. Him. ... Jesus died for our salvation. Can we do less?

Nightcrawler Vol.2 #1
February 2002, Marvel
"Passion Play Part One: Rising Dark"
page 9 - panel 4-8
Chris Kipiniak & Matthew Smith

A novice wrestles with moral issues: should he use his super powers to hunt outlaw slavers?

[Aaron Kashtan]

THUNDERBOLT ROSS: Thunderation! If this over-sized hunk of bolts is right-- the Hulk is heading straight for the San Andreas Fault!
A few panels later, MAJOR GLENN TALBOT thinks: One thing about Thunderbolt Ross-- he never lets you forget why he got his nickname!

--Nor does he let you forget what his nickname is! From Incredible Hulk #128, script by Roy Thomas.

[David Porta]

I am a sorcerer supreme, a man of knowledge; While you are only a man of learning.

Steve Englehart
from Doctor Strange Special Edition #1; March 1982
page 70 - panel 3 - Doctor Strange
reprinting
Doctor Strange (second series) #1,2,4,5; Jun-Aug-Oct-Dec 1974

[Aaron Kashtan]

In honor of National Words-That-Don't Rhyme Week, here is the first of two "rhymes with orange" jokes.

I sing a song to one dressed in orange! Errr... what rhymes with orange?

--The Minstrel's botched attempt at a song, after Groo uses the Amulet to deprive him of his poetic ability. From Groo #35 (I think), script by Mark Evanier. The dialogue is my best recollection.

[Aaron Kashtan]

And here is the second:

JACQUES THE ANVIL: [...] I perceive that we are at a standoff. Feed me a line I cannot rhyme and we'll perform a hand-off!
JUDAH THE HAMMER: A line you cannot rhyme?
JACQUES: Make it quick and make it prime!
JUDAH: There's never any fruit in Clausius' loot / Won't you have -- AN ORANGE?
JACQUES: (curses in unreadable symbols)

--The infamous impromptu rhyming contest from Nexus #11. Dialogue by Steve Rude.

It's not really National Words-That-Don't-Rhyme week. I made that up.

[Brad Curran]

Is it like my imagination... or is every old buddy Wolvie's got in the whole world... like some incredibly fabulously gorgeous babe?

Jubilee, while eavesdropping on Wolverine and the Black Widow's reunion in Uncanny X-Men 268.

[David Porta]

Jan.-Feb. 1956, Dell
Paul Newman?
The Golden Goddess

page 7 - panel 1
The aborigines are bowing down to Lassie and her friends in worship.

Chief Yukuma:
"Do not harm us, O noble pale-faced ones. We were foolish to attack you."

Capitao Jorge:

By the saints! Because of Lassie's color, they believe she is some kind of goddess. I'll keep them thinking that until they answer some of my questions.

[Aaron Kashtan]

They want to go home. They want to walk through their own fields and sleep with their own wives-- not lie on some stony beach passing around the camp slut.

--Agamemnon on why he's postponing the expedition to Troy until the spring, from Age of Bronze #14. I admit that this quote is highly indecent and not quite two years old, but it made me laugh so hard that I just had to post it.

[David Porta]

"Eyes Of Fire"
Gaylord Du Bois
Tarzan #105
June 1958, Dell

They call me ‘White Flower,' but my name is Ruth Wells. For the past six years my father has been a missionary to the Makembe tribe. They have nearly all accepted the faith. Perhaps that is why their old enemies, the neighboring tribes, are more eager than ever to wipe them out, because now the Makembe love peace more than fighting!

page 3 - panel 5,6

[Aaron Kashtan]

DONALD: I guess this is the end for us, Uncle Scrooge!
SCROOGE: Yes! I'll never see my beloved money again!

--From Uncle Scrooge #7, dialogue by Carl Barks.