Chapter 16 | Page 2a: Commission impossible

The Wrong Way

I've launched a new show with my friends Dave Kellett and Kevin McShane — The Wrong Way. We try to draw off-model versions of popular characters and roast each other mercilessly in the process! Here's our first episode!


Transcript

Evil Inc by Brad Guigar

Jan. 28, 2025

Panel 1:
(Setting: An office at the Fairmount City branch of Evil Inc. Catnip, a blonde woman in a tight blue catsuit and visor, storms into the room angrily. Iron Dragon, a man in a purple and black villain costume, sits at a desk looking confused.)

Catnip: "MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE?! Since when do we have a MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE?!"

Iron Dragon: "What are you talking about?"

Panel 2:
(Catnip gestures as she explains.)

Catnip: "You know that Evil Mime that Captain Heroic thwarted downtown last week? He was my client."

Panel 3:

Catnip: "He says our branch now offers your money back if our products or services fail!"

Panel 4:

Catnip: "If he gets his money back, I lose my commission!"

Iron Dragon: "That's… that’s infuriating!"

Panel 5:
(Iron Dragon, now angrier, leans toward Catnip.)

Iron Dragon: "You're SALARIED! Howcome YOU get a commission?!?"

Jerome Maida

Jerome Maida is making quite a name for himself at the Philadelphia Daily News covering the comic-book industry. Here’s one of his most recent. He’s definitely one to watch.

[PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS:] “You have grown much since I last saw you, little Robin,” says longtime-villain-turned-apparent-hero Lady Shiva to longtime-Batman-sidekick-turned-more-than-capable- solo-hero Robin in a recent issue of “Robin.”

Indeed, she’s right.

For the last few years the Boy Wonder’s solo series had been so boring – bordering on bad – that I wouldn’t have shed a tear over its cancellation. And I hate it when series fail.

DC’s “One Year Later” event has helped give the character a new status quo, and novelist Adam Beechen (“What I Did On My Hypergalactic Interstellar Summer Vacation”) injected the book with new juice with his first issue, “Robin” No. 148.
Read more.