Chapter 16 | Page 5a: Charmed, I’m sure…

Evil Inc – February 25, 2025
by Brad J. Guigar

Panel 1
(Exterior of an office building, music notes are floating out of a window.)
Caption: The following day...

Panel 2
(Inside the office, Miss Match looks distressed, covering her ears. Lightning Lady is also covering her ears. Through a glass window, Jeremy is seen playing a clarinet for Cassie Cruz, who sits at her desk.)
Miss Match: What’s that horrible noise?!

Panel 3
(Miss Match and Lightning Lady continue covering their ears in agony.)
Miss Match: Jeremy has been playing for Cassie for hours!

Panel 4
(Close-up of Miss Match and Lightning Lady, both wincing from the sound.)
Miss Match: This is terrible!
Lightning Lady: Tell me about it...

Panel 5
(Inside Cassie’s office, Jeremy enthusiastically plays the clarinet, with music notes filling the air. Cassie sits at her desk, looking unimpressed. A cobra in a basket, presumably meant to be charmed, looks just as miserable.)
Lightning Lady (off-panel, in a thought box): Just our luck we got a tone-deaf cobra!

Avengers: The Initiative

Marvel Preview: ‘Avengers: The Initiative’

Dan Slott’s new project, “Avengers: The Initiative” has already sold out through Diamond, and a second printing is being rushed through. The title is due to appear in bookstores April 4.

Slott is a terrific writer. It seems he’s got a real barn-burner on tap.

[NEWSARAMA] As Quesada said, it was Slott’s ideas for the concept that had Marvel editorial jazzed: “I’ve now sat in a few creative meetings with Dan and he is really coming of age here,â€? Quesada said. “I will say this and I kid you not, when it comes to creative spit-balling, he is right up there with Bendis, JMS, Millar, Loeb and Brubaker. Dan Slott is the real deal, he’s impressed us to no end, we just have to figure out a way to get him to write faster! He is the biggest superstar in comics that no one knows about.â€?

To read Newsarama’s preview, click here.

For more previews of Marvel’s April releases, check out CBR.