comic

Converse of object

• read: If someone were to say to me: " Why are you still reading comics at your age?

Adjective modifier

• stand-up: The stand-up comic was one of five wealthy clients targeted.
• funny: O Briain's simply an astonishingly funny comic, hitting scorching form.
• female: More promoters are tuned into booking female comics but most line-ups will still have more men than women.
• underground: At one of these sales he meets a fellow enthusiast who years later is to find success in underground comics.
• American: Like all American comics he has a story of about terrorists and airline travel - but his comes across as endearing.
• British: They are actually written by another great British comic called Tim Vine.

Modifies a noun

• strip: The first volume, covering 165 pages will feature the first five Doctor Who Weekly comic strips drawn by Dave Gibbons.
• timing: The acting, with its devilish comic timing, had me in fits.
• genius: Comic genius Ivor Cutler, who died on Friday.
• opera: Strauss thought the libretto ' The born comic opera - more suited to music than either Figaro or The Barber of Seville ' .
• relief: He is also the comic relief of the production.
• masterpiece: A Christmas special was aired in December 2000, a comic masterpiece drawing even more deeply on the Gents ' gothic influences.

Modifying Another Word

• darkly: Fine writes about a serious subject with a deftness of touch that is at times darkly comic.
• blackly: The Serial Killers Club, as the title and subject matter might suggest, is a blackly comic piece of work.
• absurdly: What follows, in this Cannes Camera d'Or-winning gem, is an absurdly comic farce in the best Eastern European tradition.
• unintentionally: The man exists purely to pronounce on things, usually to unintentionally comic effect.
• richly: Tragic facts are fitted into the sparkling humor and around the richly comic character of Billy.

Noun used with modifier

• superhero: Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns might have been called parodic superhero comics: attempts to infiltrate some reality and see what happens.
• horror: A friend of mine who writes horror comics agreed.