Funny / 52

• When Starfire, Adam Strange and Animal Man are about to launch their ship, the engine stalls for a second, and they think it doesn't work. Strange's reaction? "I don't get it. This has never happened to me before." Then it shoots into space. Adam Strange is at this point in the story technically blind, so he extra-special doesn't notice.
• Captain Marvel getting driven absolutely bonkers by spending too much time on the Rock of Eternity listening to the seven deadly sins.
  Captain Marvel: STOP SNORING, SLOTH! And you stop bragging, Pride! This whole affair has nothing to do with you!
• Black Adam, and yes, Black Adam of all people, worrying about how he looks on his wedding day.
  Black Adam: The cape. They couldn't get this bloodstain out.
  Captain Marvel: I can't believe it.
  Black Adam: What?
  Captain Marvel: You're nervous. I've never seen you nervous.
  Black Adam: I am not nervous. (To himself) Perhaps I should not wear the cape.
• Renee occasionally tells the Question to "bite me." His response is to tell her he can't, as he has no mouth.
• Black Adam goes through the process of bequeathing some of his power to Amon, which involves having Amon say "Black Adam."
  The Question: Black Adam! Shazam! Isis!
  Renee Montoya: What the hell are you doing?
  The Question: Seeing if it's contagious.
  • Doubles as Harsher in Hindsight when it's revealed that Vic's dying of lung cancer here.
• When Starfire shows up at Animal Man's house to save him from bounty hunters and passes out from exhaustion after doing so, Buddy's wife asks if he ordered a stripper upon seeing her on the front porch.
• In Week 18:
  • When listing the merits of the Croatoans, Detective Chimp includes that they figured out the ending of Lost.
  • Detective Chimp telling Ralph Dibny about how easy it was to track him down through his alias, Alvin Burgson.
    Detective Chimp: Please. Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a doctor named Joseph Bell, whose grandfather's neighbor was named Alvin Burgson. It's like you wanted to be found.
• When explaining how he posed as Supernova, Booster Gold gives this gem:
  "First off, I had to play dumb. And if you were really yourself, Skeets, you'd be having a field day with that statement."
• A depowered Clark Kent managed to get an interview with Supernova by throwing himself out of a window. Lois is not pleased.
  Lois: You did what? What ever possessed you to throw yourself out a window to get someone's attention?
  Clark: The memory of you asking me that with a straight face will last a lifetime.
• In Week 35, during "The Rain of the Supermen", we get some prime Black Comedy as Luthor, having deactivated the powers of the Everymen, makes a phone call and, looking up and seeing a depowered superhuman falling down at his position, calmly walks away and continues his phone call as if nothing happened while the Everyman hits the roof behind him.
  • The name of the incident itself is a very morbidly funny pun on Reign of the Supermen!, a part of The Death of Superman saga.

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