In this feature, I share with you comic book related "easter eggs." An easter egg is a joke/visual gag/in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really obscure. So come check 'em all out and enjoy! Also, click here for an archive of all the easter eggs featured so far! If you want to suggest an easter egg for a future column, e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com (do not post your suggestion in the comments section!).

On the CW show, iZombie, based on the Chris Roberson and Mike Allred comic book series by the same name, the main character, Olivia "Liv" Moore (who happens to be a zombie), eats a different murdered person's brain every week. She then gets visions of their life and helps solve their murder. She also takes on their strongest personality traits. Brains, as you might imagine, do not taste that good, so Liv prepares them differently each week to mask their taste.

Well, in Season 2 especially (but I bet even in Season 1, to some extent), the brain recipes she uses tie into the person whose brain she is eating, in funny, often pun-driven ways.

Of the 17 episodes so far, I'm sure every one of them has SOME pun connected to the brains, but some of them are fairly light in the pun department (like for the episode where she eats a frat bro's brain, she prepares it in nachos) and some of them I just don't understand (I can't piece together how a brain omelet ties in to a basketball coach). Here, then, are eight ones that I liked and that I know for sure were intended as puns...

In ""Even Cowgirls Get the Black and Blues," Liv eats the brains of a country singer/songwriter. She prepares them by country pan frying them...



In "Max Wager," Liv eats the brain of a compulsive gambler. She prepares them as part of clams casino...



In "Hurt Stalker," Liv eats the brain of a stalker. She prepares them as part of a celery snack (a STALK of celery)...



In "Cape Town", Liv eats the brain of a costume vigilante. She prepares them as part of a hero sandwich...



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In "Method Head," Liv eats the brain of a TV actor. She prepares them (with hot sauce, of course, as zombies LOVE hot sauce, since their taste buds are so fried that hot sauce is one of the few things they can still really taste) as part of a TV dinner...



In "Fifty Shades of Grey Matter," Liv eats the brains of a librarian who writes erotic fiction. When the erotic fiction is read in the episode, Kristen Bell, star of iZombie creator Rob Thomas' famous series, Veronica Mars, does the voiceover. She prepares the brains in a stuffed bell pepper...



Thanks to readers Bella and Halley for the suggestion. I'm not POSITIVE it is correct, but it seems likely enough that I'm going with it.

In "The Whopper," Liv eats the brains of a guy who constantly told lies, or "whoppers." She prepares them in a cheeseburger...



In "Pour Some Sugar, Zombie," Liv eats the brain of a stripper. She prepares them in a club sandwich...



In the most recent episode, "Reflections of the Way Liv Used to Be," Liv eats the brain of an overachiever. She prepares them in a noodle dish that led to probably my favorite pun of the season so far. Liv's co-worker and friend, Ravi, walks by and says, "That looks like something I once ate in Taiwan. In the capital city," to which Liv responds, "Taipei." Hilarious.



If you can figure out some other good ones, feel free to let me know. I know the scones of "Eternal Sunshine of the Caffeinated Mind" probably tie in with the brains belonging to a coffee shop owner, but if so, that seemed kind of non-punny, as well. I still can't figure the omelet one out! Or the stuffed peppers from the 50 Shades of Grey one.

If anyone else has a comic book easter egg they'd like to see spotlighted, just drop me a line at bcronin@comicbookresources.com!