Catnip is miffed that she’s going to lose her commission due to Cassie Cruz’s new policy. To make matters worse, the superheroes seem to have had advance notice on a number of Evil Inc schemes. Evil Inc has a mole. But who…?
Transcript
Evil Inc – January 30, 2025
by Brad J. Guigar
Panel 1:
(Setting: The Evil Inc breakroom where several villains are gathered. Catnip, a blonde woman in a blue catsuit, stands with her hands on her hips. Miss Match, a red-haired woman in red and orange, is making coffee; Lightning Lady, a blonde in a blue costume; Desdemona, a red-skinned woman in a black and red outfit; Giant Tess, a woman in a green and orange suit; and Count Spurlock, a green-skinned man in a vest.)
Catnip: "Think about it! To be inside the building, Captain Heroic had to know about the Mime’s plans in advance!"
Lightning Lady: "That’s odd. When Dreadshade cracked the safe at Fairmount Bank, he got glitter-bombed!"
Count Spurlock: "I saw. The guy looked like he went down on Shirley Eaton.*"
Caption (bottom): "*You’ve got Google. Look it up."
Panel 2:
Catnip: "And don’t forget what happened when Dr. Patchwork heisted that shipment of arms…"
(Dr. Patchwork stands in front of a group of zombie henchmen with no arms. He opens a crate of weapons.)
Dr. Patchwork: "Damn it! These are just guns!"
Panel 3:
(Catnip raises a finger, looking serious.)
Catnip: "Face it. Someone is leaking information about our clients’ schemes to the superheroes."
Panel 4:
(A flashback scene shows Cassie Cruz, a brunette in glasses and a white blouse, packing up her office at the “Silver Agency,” a superhero placement agency that is now closed.)
Narration box: "And it’s been happening ever since 'Little Miss Silver Agency' took over."
Panel 5:
(Catnip clenches her fist, her expression determined.)
Catnip: "The answer is clear… WE NEED TO GET RID OF CASSIE CRUZ."
Oh... and this is Shirley Eaton.
Tales of the Black Freighter Redux
This belongs directly under the heading of “Why didn’t I think of that?”
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“The kid reading the pirate comic at the newsstand” is one of Dave Gibbons’ most famous images from “Watchmen,” yet the “Tales of the Black Freighter” portions themselves are rarely discussed. Naturally, due to Moore’s scheme of juxtaposing only short passages against the larger story of “Watchmen,” the pirate tale is generally thought of as a powerful narrative device; a comic-within-a-comic, but not really a remarkable story in its own right.
Well, just when you thought there was nothing left to say about “Watchmen,” … Oakland, California’s Steven Johnson … excavated and reassembled all that exists of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “Tales Of The Black Freighter: Marooned” into a complete and uninterrupted narrative on the Web. Read more.Johnson’s work can be read
here. He imagines how that story would have been told in its entirely. He uses only the relevent panels from “Watchmen” — with the non-relevant dialogue removed. Said Johnson, “”Dave Gibbons did spectacular work and I can’t even begin to guess what he’d put in the ‘missing’ panels.” Those panels are blank with text only.
I don’t know writer Alan Moore’s reaction, but Dave Gibbons wrote Johnson to say “nice work.”
Indeed.
