Great Moments in Comics History: Smash Comics #1

 

In summation: That owl totally just flew through a guy.

If I hadn't gotten my entire body tattooed for that six month stint in the yakuza a few years ago, I'd want this inked on my back.

Comments

  1. CaseyJustice CaseyJustice says:

    Did… did that owl just take a bunch of drugs, yell "Whore" and kill a flying dude?

    I am NEVER going outside after dark again.

  2. BornIn1142 BornIn1142 says:

    What did I just read?!

  3. beatdisciple beatdisciple says:

    So, let’s see if I’ve got this. It wasn’t the owl flying through his body that killed him, it was falling into the vat of acid?

  4. Jeff Reid JeffR (@JeffRReid) says:

    I absolutely love this sequence. Thanks for breaking format, Paul, and giving us two and a half pages instead of just one panel. Nice choice.

  5. superscribe superscribe says:

    I like that dude is able to yell, "Nooo!" despite having a gaping hole in his chest.

  6. That guy is the absolute, bottom-rung, laughing stock of the villain community now.

  7. ActualButt ActualButt says:

    Wow.

  8. deezer deezer says:

    That’s… that’s fantastic. It may be the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. On my list of "bad ways to go", having an owl flying through you before falling in a vat of acid is definitely getting pushed towards the top

  9. Simmons Simmons says:

    Should not have read this in the library, now people are staring at me laughing to hard

  10. In the sequel, to make it bigger and better, the owl will have to turn his head a full 180 inside the guy. 

  11. vadamowens vadamowens says:

    I kind of wish I had that owl handy for when I get frustrated with my students.

  12. Alexferrer Alexferrer says:

    WHOOOREE!!

  13. Paul Montgomery PaulMontgomery (@fuzzytypewriter) says:

    This has long been my favorite thing that has ever happened in comics. Glad I finally got the opportunity to showcase it.  

    You can find this story in a really great collection called The Justice Society Returns

  14. Ron Richards ron (@ronxo) says:

    I’ve been laughing for 10 minutes straight

  15. sgrsickness sgrsickness says:

    o_o

     

    O_O

     

    @_@

  16. stuclach stuclach says:

    In other news, demand for Smash Comics #1 just skyrocketed driving the price up from $0.10 to $0.50.  Experts are baffled.

    WHOOREE! has now replaced SPOON! as my favorite battle cry.

    How did the Owl know he was supposed to kill R on his forehead guy?  How…. everything? 

  17. I think someone needs to go to a con, and get a sketch book of different artist versions of this scene, I want to see it over and over again.

  18. trobinson79 trobinson79 says:

    Great – now we’re going to see angry letters come in about unwanted abuse against overdosed owls.  Thanks @PaulMontgomery! :)

  19. Paul Montgomery PaulMontgomery (@fuzzytypewriter) says:

    @stuclach – Hootie was seeking payback against the villain–Jensen–who had wounded him in their last battle by blasting him with a blast of green from his mouth. He had his own battle cry: "Hauuugh!" 

    The green chemical in the vat is apparently "super-anthrax."  

  20. I’ve seen this comic, and there’s one other great instance:

    The whole issue is a team-up between the Golden Age Hour-Man and Doctor Mid-Nite. Mid-Nite tells Hourman his origin, which is a lot like Batman’s in that an owl flew through is window. Hourman, high on Miraclo and being an asshole, makes fun of it by saying his origin was that someone chucked a clock through his window. :D  

  21. MisterJ says:

    What the FUCK!?!?

    This, this is why I read comics.  Any description of those events is one of the greatest sentences ever.  God, I wish I could see the script.

    Bravo to everyone involved in this.

  22. wayne2001bc wayne2001bc says:

    This is beautiful.  That owl is going to need a bird bath.

  23. cromulent cromulent says:

    This was a hoot to read.

  24. stuclach stuclach says:

    @PaulMontgomery – I should have guessed.  It’s so obvious.

    I assume you know that your name is now on an NSA watch list since you mentioned the TERRIFYING puke green "super-anthrax". 

  25. vadamowens vadamowens says:

    @cromulent they have firing lines for pun’s like that;)

  26. cromulent cromulent says:

    Sorry. I was owling with laughter to remember pun etiquette.

  27. What the hell is this? lol

  28. deezer deezer says:

    I also just noticed his last words (other than screaming)… which really makes his death all the more funny

  29. This is amazing! 

  30. OH…….my……..fucking………GOD!!!!

  31. mitchster mitchster says:

    Those crazy JSAers… What will they do next?

  32. It’s so funny because there is no context for this.

    All I know is that the JSA just murdered a man by using an Owl…..then he horribly dies in a vat of acid. 

  33. JesTr JesTr says:

    I saw call him Hootie the insult comic owl. "Whooreee!!! Your life is great… for me to poop on."

  34. Wow! That was soooo fucking awesome!!!!!!

  35. Jesse1125 Jesse1125 says:

    " I never needed Drugs to fight my battles, Hourman. However.." 

    However, can I get like 1000mg of that stuff?

  36. pppiquer pppiquer says:

    This is so epic my brain exploded from the sheer awesomeness of it and I had to pick it all up and put it back inside my cranium. I then ´proceeded to go back to my computer to close the browser, but I accidentally watched it again and had to pick it up all over again, however, it was absolutely worth it

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