Chapter 17 | Page 3b: Hot Stuff

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Brad Guigar

Today’s page takes us back to Ralph’s Diner, where Captain Heroic proves—once again—that nothing rattles him… not even a surprise soup bath.

Hailey is mortified, Captain Heroic is dripping, and somewhere across the diner, Yazmine Velour is livestreaming the whole thing as heart emojis rain from the internet. It’s a small moment, but one that says a lot about who Cap really is—and why people can’t help falling for him.

Transcript

Panel 1
Hailey (distraught that she has dumped hot soup on Captain Heroic): Omigod Omigod Omigod…

Captain Heroic (turning to another person eating at the diner): Excuse me. Would you hand me a napkin, please? (The person hands him a napkin)

Panel 2

Hailey: I’m so sorry Captain Heroic, sir. I didn’t mean to — {sob}

Panel 3

Captain Heroic (handing her the napkin): Here. Please don’t cry.

Panel 4

Captain Heroic (continues): Most of my first impressions involve disintegration rays. And actual impressions. In concrete.

Panel 5

Captain Heroic: This was far more pleasant — not counting the bay leaf in my shirt.Yazmine Velour (as she livestreams the interaction from the other side of the diner, a torrent of heart emojis flow from her phone as the audience reacts): Omigod Omigod Omigod

After Dark

This week's commissioned MicroFic delivers exactly what you’d want from a pairing between Dynasty and Father Christmas.

  • Yes, he lives up to his name.

  • Yes, Dynasty knew exactly what she was doing.

  • No, the North Pole will never be the same.

I also posted the Goblin Girl MicroFic from the Monster Girl poll — and the response was so good, I might need to make these poll-powered MicroFics a recurring thing!

WikiWatch 1

Posted on February 5, 2007 by Brad Guigar

WikiWatch

According to a few Wikipedia editors, Evil Inc is not a noteworthy comic.

They know nothing of the 11,000+ daily visitors (not counting newspapers).

They know nothing of the newspapers it runs in — including Philadelphia Daily News (130,000 daily circulation).

They don’t know about the two graphic novels, distributed worldwide by Diamond Distribution.

What they see is a webcomic.

And in their myopic view, it’s a webcomic unworthy of inclusion in their increasingly narrowminded Wikipedia.

In their tribunal, the entry for Evil Inc was conisdered “unverifiable.” They said no attempt had been made to establish “notability.”

And when I wrote the editor who was credited for the deletion, I got a real taste of the “not my problem” mentality of some Wikipedia editors (scroll down to read it).

So it was unceremoniously dumped from the Wikipedia servers. Not noteworthy and unverifiable, indeed.

I have two choices. I can simply groan and go back to what I truly love best — creating comics. Or I can stand up to these people and insist that what you and I share here is noteworthy.

One SuperFan has petitioned Wikipedia to resinstate the entry. And I would encourage you to take a couple minutes and add your voice to the appeal.

There’s only one way to respond to behavior such as theirs — loudly.

And that, my friends, is verifiable.