Chapter 16 | Page 1b: Low Blow

Transcript for the January 23, 2025, Evil Inc comic by Brad Guigar:

Panel 1:
Hana Takahashi interviews Captain Heroic in a TV studio, with the headline "When Mimes Attack" visible in the background.
Hana: "That was the scene earlier today, as the Anti-Voxxer hijacked our studio!"

Panel 2:
Hana: "Captain Heroic... can you describe what happened?"
Captain Heroic: "Sure!"

Panel 3:
A close-up of Captain Heroic explaining while a flashback image of the Anti-Voxxer is shown.
Captain Heroic: "This villain can silence anyone in a 25,000-foot radius and manifest invisible walls and imaginary winds—among other things."

Panel 4:
A flashback panel shows the Anti-Voxxer getting taken out by a surprise attack from below, with a "ZIP" sound effect.
Captain Heroic (voice-over): "So there was only one way to get to him... from below."

Panel 5:
Hana looks skeptical, questioning Captain Heroic.
Hana: "But Cap... he had the entire building sealed off. How did you get inside?!"

Panel 6:
Captain Heroic smiles and winks smugly.
Captain Heroic: "Ohhhh, I was already in..."

Panel 7:
Hana glances at her watch while Captain Heroic holds his wink.
Captain Heroic: "How... how much longer do I have to hold this wink?"
Hana: "We’ve got another five minutes until commercial."

52 Web site

DC Comics has been having a lot of fun with its 52 Web site, a site created to help readers follow 52, the comic series that will unfold this year, chronicling the aftermath of Infinite Crisis.

Check out the TV listings from the Daily Planet’s Senior Entertainment Columnist:

WGBS Announces Summer Season

Metropolis, May 17 — Last week, the series finale of “The Worst Wing” – a fictionalized version of the Luthor Administration – got its biggest ratings ever for a two-hour special where President Rex Boother pardoned himself on his way out of the Oval Office, only to be killed in an accident involving a lobbyist’s limo.

SPECIAL:
CRISIS OF INFINITE MIRTH
Comedians claiming to be from different dimensions offer their humorous looks at race, relationships and superheroes in a benefit for Star City.

SERIES PREMIERE:
LEADER OF THE BAND: SCARE TACTICS
Following last summer’s surprisingly popular reality show about the revived 1970s band Great Frog, this incarnation follows the cult-favorite “monster rock” phenomenon Scare Tactics as they look for a new lead singer. In the debut, singer Susie Kavanaugh has a voice unlike any the band has ever heard… but will being a soul-draining banshee keep her in the running, or make her the first contestant to be eliminated?

RETURNING SERIES:
I WANT A HOUSE! NO, A BIGGER HOUSE!
Master carpenter Roger Gail and country singer Alison Stevens travel the country, creating homes for people who need them. In the heartbreaking premiere, it’s a family who fled Bludhaven. Does a townhouse in Coast City offer them a second chance, or just a sad reminder of what they’ve lost?

GOOD KNIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
The sitcom about King Arthur’s trusted squire (Kevin McKinley) working at a Medieval-themed restaurant in 21st-century Metropolis returns for a third season. In the premiere, Sir Tristan decides to reveal his true background to his best friend, “mead wench” Traci (Alyssa Barrett) but will she believe him? Plus, comedian Frankie Sennett makes one of his popular cameos as Tristan’s meddling Uncle Modred.

MOVIE:
THE NEW FRONTIER
Director Darwyn Cooke’s award-winning 2004 epic about superheroics during the Kennedy era makes its network-television debut. HDTV viewers can enjoy the movie with enhanced “Absolute” features.

TV MOVIE:
INTERAMERICAN
Fact-based drama follows a suburban advertising executive (Gregg Rice) who quits his job and drives across country in search of the daughter he never knew he had… because her mother was his girlfriend on a parallel Earth.