9 Best Comic Book Insults Ever
8. Nick Fury: "That Keg O' Horse Apples!"
The Golden, Silver and Bronze ages of comics were rife with lingo and slang that has, at least to readers of the modern day, aged about as well as an egg mayo sandwich. (The Joker's "Boner" tirade, anyone?)
While some dialogue and writing of that era can seem, to modern eyes, as insensitive or crass, a whole lot of it has developed an ironic charm that just puts a smile on the face of any reader. Nobody better encapsulated this kind of silly dialogue more than Marvel's resident Super Spy, Nick Fury.
A man who seems to have been around as long as comic books themselves, Fury has been an A-List Marvel hero for 60 years now, and that kind of mileage comes with it's bronze age dialogue by the bucket load.
Nick Fury bellowing out, in what must be one of the most bizarre insults ever printed in a comic book, "Don't gimme that old keg o' horse apples, ya lop-eared yahoo!" is a perfect fossil of years gone by. A warm, nostalgic time for comic books where calling someone a 'Lop-eared yahoo' was the very pinnacle of rugged tough-guy talk.