Johnny Ryan garnered a considerable following with his one-man humoranthology, Angry Youth Comix. Take a Joke collects many of thebest stories from this inimitable series as well as many strips created for thewildly popular VICE Magazine. Unlike Ryan's previous collections, whichfocused on very short stories, Take a Joke spotlights several of theartist's longest humor pieces to date, notably: "Graveyard Goofs," in whichRyan's hapless antiheroes Sinus O'Gynus and Loady McGee exhume the corpse of therecently deceased Santa Claus as part of a Top Secret experiment, fantasize anorgy with a collection of anthropomorphic condiment bottles (resulting in anunwanted pregnancy), and end up in Hell; "Boobs Pooter's Jokepocalypse,"starring a coprophiliac version of Godzilla who destroys the world withhilarious jokes and crazy pranks; and "The World's Funniest Joke," a 24-pagemasterpiece. All this, plus "The Day The New Yorker Came to Town"!