Chapter 16 | Page 4b: Mean golden girls

Transcript

Panel 1

(Cassie Cruz speaking to Jeremy, who is standing in front of a board with pictures of various Evil Inc employees.)

Cassie Cruz: Jeremy, we have to find out who has been leaking information to the heroes before they pin it on me! The only nursing home capable of caring for my mother is contingent on my job here! — And even they have their hands full!

Panel 2

(A flashback scene shows Cassie narrating while Princess Charming, an elderly woman in a wheelchair, is interacting with another patient in the nursing home.)

Cassie Cruz (narrating): As a top-tier mind-controller with dementia, my mom keeps reliving the past — and pulling innocent people into her world!

Panel 3

(A flashback continues with an orderly, wearing a red shirt, standing near Princess Charming. Green energy surrounds them as the orderly appears to be in a trance.)

Cassie Cruz (narrating): Last week, an orderly forgot to turn on his neuro-dampener last week. Before anyone knew it, he was reenacting a battle between Mom and Hijinx.

Jeremy: Was Hijinx a hero she used to fight?

Panel 4

Cassie Cruz (narrating): Worse. It was a villain she had a rivalry with.

Princess Charming: I wish I could be like you. It must be so freeing not to stress over every little pound!

Panel 5

(Orderly is sitting on a couch, speaking with a therapist)

Cassie Cruz (narrating): The poor guy has been in counseling ever since!

Orderly: I mean… I thought I looked cute in bangs!

(Comic strip by Brad J. Guigar. © 2025. All rights reserved. Visit evil-inc.com)

WikiWatch

According to a few Wikipedia editors, Evil Inc is not a noteworthy comic.

They know nothing of the 11,000+ daily visitors (not counting newspapers).

They know nothing of the newspapers it runs in — including Philadelphia Daily News (130,000 daily circulation).

They don’t know about the two graphic novels, distributed worldwide by Diamond Distribution.

What they see is a webcomic.

And in their myopic view, it’s a webcomic unworthy of inclusion in their increasingly narrowminded Wikipedia.

In their tribunal, the entry for Evil Inc was conisdered “unverifiable.” They said no attempt had been made to establish “notability.”

And when I wrote the editor who was credited for the deletion, I got a real taste of the “not my problem” mentality of some Wikipedia editors (scroll down to read it).

So it was unceremoniously dumped from the Wikipedia servers. Not noteworthy and unverifiable, indeed.

I have two choices. I can simply groan and go back to what I truly love best — creating comics. Or I can stand up to these people and insist that what you and I share here is noteworthy.

One SuperFan has petitioned Wikipedia to resinstate the entry. And I would encourage you to take a couple minutes and add your voice to the appeal.

There’s only one way to respond to behavior such as theirs — loudly.

And that, my friends, is verifiable.