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

[Billigm]

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

Amazing!!!
Such a good one
hahahha

[Aaron Kashtan]

A lazy, drifting canopy of clouds wraps the sleepy earth in a soft, thick blanket of down on this cool, fall evening... while above this lulling mantle of peace, sparkling courtiers of stars brightly dance attendance on the queen-moon, beguiling from her hand her golden favor... which sheds a saffron glow of blessing above all...

--This is interesting not just because it's the purplest prose ever, but also because of where it appears. You'd think this was a caption from some sort of romance comic, but it's actually from World's Finest #285, of all things. Script by Cary Burkett.

[MDG]

You'd think this was a caption from some sort of romance comic, but it's actually from World's Finest #285, of all things.

That was during a period when Superman and Batman were getting along particularly well.

[Aaron Kashtan]

That was during a period when Superman and Batman were getting along particularly well.

Yes, in that story they get along so well that the reader suspects they might be, shall we say, more than friends.

[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.