# Ten famous comic haikus **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926 "2017-01-12T02:05:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/1 "2017-01-12T02:05:45Z")
> **[Ten Famous Comics in Haiku - World Comic Book Review](https://www.worldcomicbookreview.com/2017/01/11/ten-famous-comics-haiku/)** > > This piece, which is a review only in the loosest sense, is inspired by David Bader’s book, “One Hundred Great Books in Haiku” (Penguin Books, 2010). As the promotional copy for Mr Bader’s book notes, “In the sixteenth century, Zen monks in Japan... Re: Thor > [@](#): > > Mummy’s boy with > Phallic thunder-stick sad when > Ex-girlfriend steals it Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/2 "2017-01-12T23:29:26Z")
Help me! I am trapped In a Haiku factory! Save me before they ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/3 "2017-01-12T23:39:39Z")
My inner rage grows When I can’t write a poem And then Haiku smash! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/4 "2017-01-13T04:18:58Z")
[ > [@Bucky Katt](#): > > I love catnip mice… > It’s why I chew their heads off. > They’re good for breakfast. ]([http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gYBNZYeEkgg/T34dnjGVXTI/AAAAAAAAASQ/NSKE7sSuAVk/s1600/Get+Fuzzy.bmp](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gYBNZYeEkgg/T34dnjGVXTI/AAAAAAAAASQ/NSKE7sSuAVk/s1600/Get+Fuzzy.bmp))😛 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/5 "2017-01-13T05:16:42Z")
For many years, my sister, who lives in San Diego, had a dog who had lost his eyesight in a car accident. Canine of black fluff Eyeballs present do not work Ocean sniff enjoy ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/6 "2017-01-13T07:05:55Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > My inner rage grows > When I can’t write a poem > And then Haiku smash! Yes, I saw you posted that on that site as a contest entry and quite like it. Spider-Man \*Bookish lad’s aunty Improbably naïve at Lip-smacking at flies. \* ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/7 "2017-01-13T18:12:04Z")
If you’re on Facebook or Twitter, I have an ongoing series called #SingleLifeHaiku ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/8 "2017-01-13T19:03:00Z")
Bespectacled Clark, Mild-mannered reporter, is Really Superman! ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/9 "2017-01-13T19:56:39Z")
To convey one’s mood In seventeen syllables Is very diffic (John Cooper Clarke) ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/10 "2017-01-16T07:58:17Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > If you’re on Facebook or Twitter, I have an ongoing series called #SingleLifeHaiku > [@](#): > > “Harder!” she yelled, so > I asked “What’s the capital > Of Tajikistan?” > #SingleLifeHaiku Gold. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/11 "2017-01-17T18:39:17Z")
> [@TYphoonSignal8](#): > > Gold. Lol. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/12 "2017-01-17T20:32:29Z")
My favorite is from a great little book called [Gay Haiku](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211525.Gay_Haiku). Did you just say you think _Mansfield Park_ is boring? Get out of my house. ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/13 "2017-01-18T15:13:03Z")
Written after the criticality incident at Tokai-mura Procedure Compliance - a haiku A blinding blue flash White kimonos in the Spring Bring the Honor Knife ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/14 "2017-01-18T17:14:03Z")
My favorite from the old Page O’ Flames (or was it the Page 'O One Liners?): **The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then** ---
**Author:** ![squidfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@squidfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squidfood)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/15 "2017-01-18T18:35:14Z")
To sleep, is perchance To enter his spooky house. Avoid his sister. ---
**Author:** ![ultimate11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/49beb7/32.png) [@ultimate11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultimate11)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-famous-comic-haikus/776926/16 "2017-01-19T06:33:15Z")
Something kind: The Cecil Adams In Chicago, Illinois Thank you for your work!