Last to the party

[Jared Katooie]

This is a thread for people to confess all the jokes or references in the progs that they didn't get until years later. Ro-jaws and Hammerstein seems to be a popular one, for instance.

For myself, I was recently thumbing through Case-Files 5 and was reading the opening pages of "Judge Death Lives". The tour guide says: "Over here we have the uniform of Judge Hurst, the inventor of the flesh disintegrator. He will be remembered." Up until that point I had never realised the glaringly obvious joke that was being made.


So what stuff did you only figure out recently?

[Dandontdare]

"Over here we have the uniform of Judge Hurst, the inventor of the flesh disintegrator. He will be remembered." Up until that point I had never realised the glaringly obvious joke that was being made.

mmmm ... glaringly obvious? I still don't get it!

[Kerrin]

Damien Hirst? Dead things in fish tanks. Could be wrong DDD.

[SmallBlueThing]

Bit before his time, i'd think.
"Will be remembered", as in "there's not much of him left"/killed by his own invention.
SBT

[Kerrin]

Ohhhh, duh. I'll get back to picking my nose with my toe.

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Fractal FRiction - !

lol - as someone who started reading relatively late (first issue 1218) I spent a lot of time going WTF. Especially since my first Dredd arc was Sector House and I was there going "now... who the hell is THIS Rico - ?!"

I mean, I'm a guy who didn't get the Beatles pun until last year. Slow as a slow moose me.

[Jared Katooie]

Bit before his time, i'd think.
"Will be remembered", as in "there's not much of him left"/killed by his own invention.
SBT

Exactly. It's Judge Hurst's uniform, because his flesh got disintegrated. 

[Dark Jimbo]

Dredd living in 'Rowdy Yates block' only clicked with me a couple of years ago. In fairness, Rawhide was waaaaaay before my time.

And it took me quite a few years before I got the pun in the name 'Resyk.' I'd been pronouncing it in my head as something like 'Res-ik', and it was only when I realised it was supposed to be 'ree-syke', as in recycle, that I got it.

[Greg M.]

From Strontium Dog - the Slavers of Druul. I wouldn't say I just got it recently, but it was many years after I read it that it finally clicked.

[CrazyFoxMachine]

That resyk one was the same for me for NO CONCEIVABLE REASON. I don't think it was til someone wrote in saying "I always thought it was 'REZZIK' - what a fool I've been!" Did I embarrassingly get the hint.

Whoops

[Jared Katooie]

I'll admit to the Resyk one as well.

"Ressik" just sounds better...

[M.I.K.]

Mentioned this on here before, but...

The diary of Danny Franks.

[Greg M.]

Mentioned this on here before, but...

The diary of Danny Franks.

Oh dear lord. Bad Company is my favourite comic strip of all time... and I never got that until right now!

[Colin YNWA]

From Strontium Dog - the Slavers of Druul. I wouldn't say I just got it recently, but it was many years after I read it that it finally clicked.

Well I only just, like right now after a bit of effort, got that one!

[Greg M.]

From Strontium Dog - the Slavers of Druul. I wouldn't say I just got it recently, but it was many years after I read it that it finally clicked.

Well I only just, like right now after a bit of effort, got that one!

Even the fact their leader was called Black Gums didn't clue me in...