Chapter 17 | Page 13a: All you need is love. And lube.

They say all you need is love… but nobody ever said it had to be part of a company-wide initiative approved by Dr. Muskiday.

After yesterday’s emotional-cloud chaos, Dr. Muskiday has a solution — and let’s just say it’s less “scientific breakthrough” and more “HR nightmare waiting to happen.”

According to Muskiday, the only way to overpower the micronanos is to flood them with a stronger emotion than anger.

And that emotion is…

LOVE.

Dr. Muskiday is doing his absolute best to frame this as a team-building exercise.

With benefits.

Iron Dragon is on board — and he came prepared. (And he's prepared to come.)

But will the gang go along with it?


 

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Transcript

Caption:
The next morning…

Lightning Lady:
I thought these clouds were gonna dissipate!

Catnip:
Doctor Muskiday thinks he has a solution…
You’re not gonna like it.

Cassie Cruz:
We gotta flood the micronanos with emotions.

Giant Tess (angry):
No problem. I’m plenty mad already!

Holo-Clone Miss Match:
There’s one emotion more powerful than anger: LOVE.

Dr. Muskiday:
Before you say anything… just think of this as a team-building exercise.
With benefits.

Iron Dragon (holding a box containing, lube, lace and sex toys)
Exactly! It’s like a “trust fall.”
But horizontal.


Detailed Alt Text

A wide, single-panel comic labeled “The next morning…” shows a group of supervillains gathered in an office area at Evil Inc. Several characters have floating pink “emotion clouds” above their heads—visual representations of their feelings caused by Dr. Muskiday’s Project SMILE.

On the far left, Lightning Lady (a blonde woman in a blue-and-yellow costume) gestures in frustration, saying she expected the clouds to dissipate. Next to her, a curvy woman in a tight black catsuit — Catnip — leans forward, explaining that Dr. Muskiday has a solution that won’t be popular.

Cassie Cruz (a confident woman in a business outfit) stands near the center, explaining that they need to “flood the micronanos with emotions.” Around him, multiple characters display different emotional clouds—confusion (question marks), anger (red symbols), and even a skull icon—hovering above their heads.

Giant Tess, the superhuman resources manager,  responds angrily that she’s already full of rage. Dr. Muskiday’s holographic assistant counters by declaring that love is a more powerful emotion, with the word “LOVE” appearing large and bold in the panel.

Iron Dragon tries to convince the group that this should be viewed as a “team-building exercise… with benefits.” In his arms is a box containing lube, lace and assorted sex toys.

Evil Inc Monthly #28 (July 2014)

The new Evil Inc Monthly is available! It’s once again possible to download the upcoming Evil Inc comic strips for this month as a convenient download, perfect for your iPad, Kindle Fire, iPhone or other digital device — even your desktop! And now… you can subscribe to get them delivered to you automatically every month! They usually get uploaded on the first Monday of every month. If some of the strips appear in black-and-white, a free update will be released shortly thereafter with the color versions as soon as they’re ready. Just click this little green button…
Patreon_textbug Patreon supporters over the $5/month level automatically get this monthly comic as part of their reward package! Or you could just subscribe to the comic itself for 99¢ a month. This month’s storyline is a continuation of the arc that started in June. Lightning Lady can’t face her mother’s disapproval so she goes on the hunt for someone to pretend to be her boyfriend. But she finds someone on a hunt of his own, and he’s not pretending. And for the Bonus Feature, we’ve got the entire two-month storyline that tells the real story behind the origin of the Memo. The Memo has always been one of my favorite characters — dating back as far as Greystone Inn when the character debuted as “the Narrator.” Well, the Narrator became the Memo. And, if you pay close attention to July’s comics, you’ll see that the idea of a sentient narration box is getting yet another twist.

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