I still think this is funny.

That's the second-to-last page of Green Lanterns #4, by writer Sam Humphries and so many artists that you wouldn't believe me if I told you how many there were (Okay, I 'll try. It's nine. It took three pencil artists and six inkers to draw this 20-page book...that bi-weekly schedule's looking like it might be such a great idea, huh?).

It's been years since former Green Lantern writer Geoff Johns first introduced Red Lantern Dex-Starr, a perfectly ordinary house cat from Earth who earned a Red Lantern ring, which he wears on his tail. Like all Red Lanterns, Dex-Starr now vomits laser-blood that burns like napalm. It's been years, but man, Dex-Starr's existence still hasn't ceased to amuse me.

I particularly liked Green Lantern Simon Baz's set-up to his appearance, the "Is that a...cat?" line.

It sure is, Simon. It sure is.

Oh Red Lanterns, you may be weird, unpleasant and poorly-drawn...

...but I just can't seem to bring myself to dislike you either, thanks to images like these.

Sometimes I'm torn.

Here's a good example.

So, on the one hand, there are the above panels from Charles Soule and Alessandro Vitti's Red Lanterns #22, in which is former Green Lantern Guy Gardner, who has recently become a Red Lantern and adopted a terrible new costume as per New 52 regulations, meets Red Lantern Zilius Zox.

Zox is a being from a planet where the predominant lifeform are guys with giant, spherical heads with arms and legs attached.

Guy worked with a similar being in the Green Lantern Corps for pretty much his entire superheroic career (The Internet tells me his name was Galius Zed, but I always just called him The Guy Who's Just a Giant Head with Arms and Legs), but here appears to have never seen one of these guys. And he then refers to him as a "testicle with teeth."

Gross. And crass. And juvenile.

But then, on the other hand, the very same issue of the very same comic has this panel in it:

And if that's not a perfect one-panel encapsulation of everything gloriously, hilariously insane about superhero comics than man, I don't know what is.