Overly Long Gags in comic books.
- In Sergio Aragonés Destroys DC, the "Deja Vu Kid" demonstrates his powers for several panels.Deja Vu Kid: I am a Deja Vu Kid! I have the power to make events repeat themselves!
- Preacher:
- Contains a page of nine identical panels of Herr Starr looking at himself in the mirror, staring at his brand new scar that makes his bald head look like a penis. In the last one, he says "Shit".
- The next issue has a page containing nine identical panels of Herr Starr looking at himself in the mirror, trying on wigs. In the last one, he says "Plan B".
- Nine pages later is a page containing nine identical panels of Herr Starr looking at himself in the mirror, trying on hats. The 3rd one is a pith helmet with a swastika. "Very funny, Featherstone." The 6th one is a black fedora. "Too 'Gestapo'". The 9th one is a red-banded white panama hat. "Hmmm".
- It's rare because in comics, it doesn't quite work: the reader can control the speed of the story and skip whatever he or she isn't interested in looking at. A Family Guy comic book attempted a print version of one of its long gags by having Chris challenge the reader to a staring contest, followed by three pages of the same panel of Chris, repeated nine times a page. Fortunately people could just skip to the end.
- Cable & Deadpool has a page in which alternate universe Mister Sinister is waiting outside a bathroom door while Deadpool, who's needed to use the bathroom for something like three days, pees for about 9 panels. He finally emerges, at which point Mister Sinister tells him to wash his hands and he goes back into the bathroom.
- Cerebus has also been known to pee for entire pages.
- Ultimate Spider-Man has Spidey picturing Jean Grey naked (after she thanked him for not picturing her naked) for two pages, with the telepathic Jean reading his mind. At first she reacts with boredom, then annoyance that he's still thinking about her, then amusement that he still hasn't stopped thinking about her naked, then shock at an apparently vivid fantasy he's having, then anger etc...all while Spider-Man keeps saying "Okay, I'm done now. No, now..."
- In Invincible, Mark had a conversation with a comic book shop owner discussing the habit of overusing identical Beat Panels in comics (and providing meta-commentary on the author's own use of this). This involved page-long pauses where the same panel was repeated again and again.
- Lampshaded in MAD's parody of Moonlighting by requesting readers to reread certain panels 10 or 12 times over before continuing to read the parody.
- "Slow Burn" by Gotlib and André Franquin. Consists of...I didn't count...about 50 panels of two cats going through all positions of the Cat Kamasutra. A subversion follows: After the tomcat has buzzed off, the she-cat bitterly complains that men have no endurance. Exeunt left, carrying a vibrator.
- Idées Noires: One gag has a man escaping from Backwards Rock (which is apparently some sort of prison). As he runs away he is zapped away. Then the gag starts over again for three pages, with always the same four panels. Man climbs down, makes an Up Yours! to the guards, runs away, gets zapped away. Finally this gag ends, with Franquin writing a note below the page: "Isn't that great! Just when I have a wonderful idea for a new long running comic book series my publisher refuses to do it!!
- And yet another Gotlib: "No Japonais". (Easily found on the Net.) A samurai tries to do a Noh show, but is constantly interrupted by other participants. (Mind the language gags.) Hilarity Ensues as the participants get weirder and weirder until two stepdancing Martians try to soothe the poor dude (who is one sword short of a seppuku) in Wingdinglish.
- The member roster of the Legion of Super-Heroes just calls to be parodied by using this trope. The end of the Legion of Superfluous Heroes’ roll call was, after counting about hundred made-up superheroes: "Yelling Lass?" "HEEEEERE!" with the effect that the name lister got so shocked he forgot every name, tried to begin the whole roster anew and was mauled by his annoyed colleagues.
- Also, whenever the spy agency S.C.H.M.U.C.K.’s name is mentioned, the footnotes say that it doesn’t stand for anything in particular.
