 Taking stock of super-villainsJokester: The Earth-3 doppleganger of Batman arch-nemesis, Joker, actually made for excellent reading in DC’s Countdown. Despite his good-guy status, the Jokester character has been a marked highpoint in the Countdown series. From the DC Database Project: One of the many victims of Owlman I, Jackie rose up after personally witnessing his friends slaughtered and himself scarred to become Owlman’s greatest adversary, the Jokester! After a long career of fighting and resisting the original Owlman and Talon, Jokester found his place with the Riddler family discovering his former wife and daughter Duela Dent. Unfortunately, DC seems to be perfectly content to introduce a fascinating character and then kill him off in the space of a couple appearances. That was a shame. TWiV has to grudgingly rate the Jokester at a “one.” After all, he wasn’t ever really a villain in the first place.  (If you have a suggestion for “TWiV,” please let me know.) |
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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