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11 Comedians Who Write Comic Books

We're still waiting for Daredevil to team up with Jay and Silent Bob.

11 Comedians Who Write Comic Books

December 29, 2021

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We're still waiting for Daredevil to team up with Jay and Silent Bob.

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Patton Oswalt spies on the Justice League. DC JLA TOTTHE WELCOME SK US WORKING WEEK - و I Take OSWOLT GLKASTON Ths ON ALAM THWATCH A kid (obviously a stand-in for Oswalt) beams aboard the JLA satellite to escape an alien invasion and basically snoops on the League for a week. It's a fan's eye view of what it might be like to hang with the world's mightiest superheroes. — ComicVine

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Taran Killiam wondered if super-spies have kids. What if a Bond-esque agent died, leaving behind unwanted kids via his various adventurous romances? Не was not carrying a condom with him on the island of Dr. No, reasons Killiam. When those kids formed a team, you've got Killiam's comic: The Illegitimates. — EW

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Bill Hader and Seth Meyers got down with Spidey. In a quasi-parody of Batman's classic Long Halloween series, Hader and Myers tell the tale of Spider-Man getting mixed up with a regular dude dressed as the webslinger for Halloween. Oh, those wacky mistaken identity stories! — CBR

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Robert Smigel

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Robert Smigel penned Tales to Thrizzle. THRIZZLE VOLUME ONE Triumph's pal Smigel partnered with Michael Kupperman on this Eisner Award-winning collection of surreal short comics. This is for you if you like stories about evil girls and owls, Jesus' half-brother, sex blimps, silent robots, scary snakes, and delicious bacon. — Fantagraphics

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Paul Scheer was dang excited to write Deadpool. This is hands down one of the coolest things I've ever done, says Scheer. If I told the little kid version of me that I'd write comic books for Marvel, he'd be psyched but also scared that I created some sort of space time anomaly that might set in motion a chain of events that would end the world. — CBR

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Brian Posehn wasn't allowed to kill someone. It was the fourth or fifth issue of our (Deadpool) run, and I had the Kardashians die in the script, says Posehn. I was focusing on the three super-annoying older ones. Marvel was like, 'Dude, you can't kill the Kardashians. — The Current

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Kevin Smith was wary of taking on Daredevil. There was a time I tried to back out, for fear that I wasn't going to do it justice, admits Smith. But he thinks movie people are naturals for comics. A lot of folks in my line of work could do a bang-up job with the comics, if they'd give it a shot. — Man Without Fear

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Del Close

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Del Close never told tales like these at Second City. Improvisational comedy guru Del Close made an improbable team with Suicide Squad creator John Ostrander. Nevertheless, they birthed cult-favorite Wasteland-a weird horror anthology comic book from the 1980s. — DC Universe Infinite

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM There's a Monty Python version of Superman? S Cleese helped write Superman: True Brit, an alt-universe story in which Kal-El's rocket crashes in an English town. The infant is taken in by the Clarks, who raise their son Colin to hide his powers because the worst thing anyone can do in England is stand out in a crowd. — DC Comics

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COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac asks Now What? MARVEL NOW WHATZ MARVEL KIDS ARE PLAYED OUT! Cenac contributed an X-Men story to the funny Now What?! collection: X The Academy or the School of Hard Х. In his web series aka Wyatt Cenac, the comedian stars as the Viceroy, a superhero who protects gentrified Brooklyn from his secret food truck. — Marvel, Inverse

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Scott Aukerman

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM Scott Aukerman fought Secret Wars. SECRET WARS J RNAL The host of Comedy Bang! Bang! brings a comic book sensibility to his funny stuff, trying to harness the kind of imagination and emotions that Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had when they were creating the Marvel Universe when I'm writing comedy too. — Fast Company

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