Funny / Kingdom Come

• At the end when Clark, Bruce and Diana show up in civilian clothes at the superhero-themed restaurant Planet Krypton.
  • Clark's gaze at the long-haired teenage Superman causes Diana to giggle, "Be nice, Clark."
  • One of the tables appears to be Plastic Man. (Knowing Plas, it could really be him playing a prank on Booster.)
  • The Power Girl chicken sandwich. The cut is breast.
  • Hell, all of the epilogue is pretty funny. From the guy who asks Bruce for ketchup, the Spectre's irritated reaction to a "Spectre Platter" (spinach and cottage cheese), to Bruce needing a drink once Wonder Woman and Superman break the news to him... considering it's the epilogue of a rather tragic epic story, it's incredibly funny.
  Waiter: Hello, I'm Robin.
  Bruce: Of course you are.^note The in-joke is the waiter looks like Carrie Kelly from The Dark Knight Returns.
  • The cake definitely goes to Batman for being the grumpy old snarker he has been all his life.
    • This entire exchange:
      "It's awfully crowded here," Clark noted. "You're sure we won't be recognized?"
      "Hardly likely," she replied, still examining the menu with its cheesy names for the meals. "In the first place, you wrote the book on secret identities..."
      "... And in the second place, amidst all this tawdry bric-a-brac, I doubt they'd take notice of us if we were fighting the Legion of Doom in full costume." They turned to see the familiar black suit of one Bruce Wayne as he spotted a coat hanger behind Clark. "Clark. Diana. You probably should've waited for a smaller table to open up."
      "There you are," Clark said in surprise, retaining the smirk on his face. "You snuck up on me. Me. How do you do that?"
  • The look on Diana's and Clark's faces when Bruce correctly guesses that Diana is pregnant, this a few panels after them saying there was no way he could know that.
    • In the novelization, Norman McCay and the Spectre are sitting several tables away, and Spectre is reading their lips so he can relay the entire conversation to Norman. When Bruce guesses correctly about Diana, Norman is so stunned that he drops his fork.
  • Bruce about to complain that the waiter botched his order of steak, well-done. A brief glance by Clark obviates his complaint.
  • In addition, the trio's drink orders are pretty much what you expect. Diana asks for water, Clark asks for a glass of milk. Bruce? Coffee. Black. Keep it coming.
  • A late middle-aged Fire looking for Booster Gold, who owns the restaurant.
• Batman's comment about his son Ibn struggling to shake off the programming of the League of Assassins is punctuated with "That's what happens when you're brought up in an isolated society of zealots. You wind up a little brainwashed," which is a not terribly subtle dig at Wonder Woman, raised on Themiscyra, to which she dryly replies "You don't say". This becomes a Brick Joke when at the end, after Diana reveals that she's pregnant with Clark's child, and Batman has agreed to be the child's godfather; Diana states that they should enact a "shared custody" type arrangement, so the child "doesn't grow up raised by isolated zealots".
• Superman does a Stealth Hi/Bye to Batman, who gets the point.
  "So that's what that feels like..."
• One of the side conversations from the staff of the Superhero restaurant.
  "Someone stole my handcuff arrow again."
  "So? Just get another from the back."
  • Also, when Norm enters the restaurant, he's greeted by a guy who's a dead ringer for Hal Jordan, but seems to be seriously lacking in knowledge of Jordan's alter ego...
  "So whaddaya think? Nice job on the tights, huh? They tell me I make a pretty good Green... whaddaya callim?...Arrow."
• Monstrous as the action is, Vandal Savage killing Luthor's secretary in the middle of his conversation for such a petty reason is pretty damn funny simply for how dark it is. In the Novelization, Luthor grumbles that he just had her trained, and tells Vandal an assault on his employees is an assault on him, and will not be tolerated. Vandal accedes, but he's clearly amused.
  King: You ham.
• In the Novelization, Flash dousing a raging fire, then a split nanosecond later leaving a sign at the fire department reading, "LATE AGAIN, FELLAS".
• One scene at the end has the Gulag survivors becoming students under Wonder Woman, and present at her Awesome Moment of Crowning in Themyscira. Swastika hocks a loogie, as he couldn't be less interested. Magog Dope Slaps him to get him in line.
• After the battle, and everyone is recuperating, Bruce Wayne passes a brooding Lex Luthor, left humbled and humiliated yet again. Bruce, with a smirk on his face, mutters to him "Shazam," to which Luthor snaps back "Shut up!"
  • Also, look closely. Dost mine eyes deceive, or is Lex Luthor cleaning a bedpan?
• Alex Ross illustrated a brief flashback splash page in the Thy Kingdom Come story which ran in Justice Society of America. The page featured one of the typical metahuman brawls on this world before Superman returned, wherein the demonic looking cyborg 666 is punched in the face. This seems to particularly enrage the second Joker's Daughter, but what makes it so funny is that this is a clever reference to how the characters were based off Brian Azzarello and Jill Thompson (who are married in real life). So the scene comes across as Jill getting pissed that someone's attacking her husband.
• Atom Smasher cold-cocks Marvin when he talks smack to Superman during the latter's "come to Jesus" speech at the bar. Superman, the original Boy Scout, simply says "Thank you".
• In the Novelization, Ollie Queen making his pitch to the younger generation after Superman made his at the superhero bar, laying one Stealth Insult after another.
  "You bet he heard me. Just like Santa Claus." (wink)

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