Johnny Ryan#xE2;#xAC;"s transgressive masterpiece Prison Pit has been the talk of alt-comicscircles for the past year since its debut in the summer of 2009. But before Prison Pit, Ryan garnered a considerable following via his one-man humoranthology (which doubled as a one-man War Against Political Correctness) Angry Youth Comix. Take a Joke collects many of the best stories from this inimitableseries as well as many strips created for the wildly-popular Vice magazine,to which Ryan has contributed for years. Unlike Ryan#xE2;#xAC;"s previous collections, which focused on very short stories, Takea Joke spotlights several of the artist#xE2;#xAC;"s longest humor pieces to date, notably:#xE2;#xAC;SGraveyard Goofs,#xE2;#xAC; in which Ryan#xE2;#xAC;"s hapless antiheroes Sinus O#xE2;#xAC;"Gynus andLoady McGee exhume the corpse of the recently-deceased Santa Claus as partof a Top Secret experiment, fantasize an orgy with a collection of anthropomorphiccondiment bottles (resulting in an unwanted pregnancy), and end up inHell; #xE2;#xAC;SBoobs Pooter#xE2;#xAC;"s Jokepocalypse,#xE2;#xAC; starring a coprophiliac version of Godzillawho destroys the world with hilarious jokes and crazy pranks; and #xE2;#xAC;SThe World#xE2;#xAC;"sFunniest Joke,#xE2;#xAC; a 24-page masterpiece that makes The Aristocrats look like a NoraEphron film. All this plus Cheeseburger Chase, Omletta DuPont, and #xE2;#xAC;SThe Day The NewYorker Came to Town#xE2;#xAC;!.