Chapter 16 | Page 10b: Stiff Competition

Lightning Lady tells her friend Miss Match all about finding her boyfriend in the arms of another woman — who also happens to be Lightning Lady!

Transcript

Evil Inc – April 3, 2024
By Brad J. Guigar

Panel 1

Narration: Evil Inc Breakroom, Some Time Later

Miss Match: "Wait... So, he was cheating on you with you??"
Lightning Lady: (Looks down, visibly distressed.)

Panel 2

Lightning Lady (narrating over a scene of a group of Alternate-Universe Lightning Ladies in Different Outfits and Styles): "It's a long story, but some time back*, Marquis teleported some alternate-universe versions of me. We thought we managed to get everyone home, but we musta missed one.”

*Evil Inc After Dark #16

Miss Match: "...So, you beat the stuffing outta her, right...?"

Panel 3

Lightning Lady: (Narrating a scene of her and Angus having a tender conversation.) "Just the opposite."
Lightning Lady: "Angus... you're a good guy. Losing Flashback left me scared to let another man into my life..."

Panel 4

(Lightning Lady talks to Angus While Alternate-Universe Lightning Lady Stands Beside Him)

Lightning Lady: "You deserve someone who can give herself to you completely. Someone like her."

Panel 5

Miss Match: "You... you gave up?!?"
Lightning Lady: "How am I supposed to compete with all of this?!" (Gestures at herself in exasperation.)

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