10 Lines From Comics Too Weird To Be True
8. "The Thing About These Tights Is That They’re Y’know... Tight."
While comic pickup lines are universally questionable at best, hitting on someone by reminding them that their spandex battle uniform is skin-tight is maybe the low-key creepiest possible way to do so. Especially when said person you’re trying to woo is Booster Gold – who is both entirely oblivious, and also notably not Batman.
What makes this outright hilarious, however, is the timing – or rather, total lack of timing, as this master class in romance is being carried out halfway through fighting a giant murderous robot.
Sure, ‘the course of love never did run smooth’ and all that – but that doesn’t mean you should ignore robot death lasers to try and get some sweet love interest angles going.