Countess Influencia has arrived — and Fairmount City’s heroes are already under her spell.
As her livestreamed crime spree unfolds, the heroes of Justice Ltd. are doing what any brave, noble defenders of justice would do in a moment of crisis: They’re staring at their phones, smashing the Like button, and assembling in her comments section.
Only Captain Heroic seems immune to her influence. Why? Because the last thing waiting on his phone is a text from Miss Match that reads: “We have to talk.”
And sometimes, emotional avoidance is the only thing standing between civilization and total collapse.
Dear Pentagram Forum
If you enjoyed the illustration that parodied those old “Dear Penthouse Forum” letters, the following exclusive post takes the joke all the way.
The short story tells the entire encounter from start to finish — the setup, the invitation, the escalation, and the kind of filthy left turn those letters always seemed to take when you realized you were no longer in the “saucy anecdote” section of the magazine.
This one is pure retro smut nostalgia: A horny little time capsule from the era when “I never thought this would happen to me…” was basically the Bat-Signal for bad decisions.
Transcript
Panel 1
A large monitor displays footage of Countess Influencia hovering over Fairmount City.
Several Justice Ltd heroes are gathered in the room, but instead of leaping into action, they’re all staring at their phones. Pink hearts stream upward from their screens.
Amazing Amazon: She’s… weirdly compelling.
Elastic Man: I only ‘liked’ ironically.
Wingman: I subscribed UN-ironically.
Captain Heroic: Why isn’t anyone… y’know… assembling?
Panel 2
Amazing Amazon: We are assembling.
Elastic Man: In her comments section.
Phenomenal Lass: Grab your phone and join us.
Panel 3
Captain Heroic remembers his last text from Miss Match: “We have to talk”
Cap, in a narration box: I… uhhhh… turned that off for a while.
Panel 4
Captain Heroic, flying into action: Who knew emotional avoidance could be a superpower?
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.
