At Evil Inc, even labor negotiations can spiral out of control — especially when “hard bargaining” takes on a whole new meaning. Cassie Cruz just realized that the conference room she prepped for Dr. Muskiday’s… unconventional solution… is already booked for a high-stakes union negotiation. Unfortunately, it looks like Doctor Threat and the henchpersons may have already reached an agreement.
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Transcript
Panel 1
Cassie Cruz (angry):
“We are NOT having an orgy at our desks!”
Dr. Muskiday (calmly defensive):
“Of course not! I stocked the conference room with mattresses and lube.”
Panel 2
Cassie Cruz (panicking):
“The conference room?! Doctor Threat is scheduled to negotiate a new contract with the henchpersons’ union in there!”
Panel 3
Cassie Cruz (looking toward a slightly open door):
“Where’s Doctor Threat?”
Dr. Muskiday (matter-of-fact):
“I believe that’s him in the middle of — erm — ‘collective bargaining.’”
(Sound effects from behind the closed conference room door:)
“Hhh hhh”
“Plap Ngh Plap Plap”
“Hngh hhh”
“mmf mmf mmf”
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A three-panel comic set inside an office at Evil Inc.
Panel 1: Cassie Cruz, a professional woman with short brown hair, red glasses, a white blazer, and a low-cut yellow top, stands beside her desk looking furious. A small pink “emotion cloud” with a skull icon floats near her head, indicating anger. She shouts that they are not having an orgy at their desks. Standing nearby is Dr. Muskiday, a short humanoid with a fly’s head—large red compound eyes, small body, and lab coat—who calmly explains that he already prepared the conference room with mattresses and lube.
Panel 2: Close-up on Cassie clutching her head in alarm. Her expression is wide-eyed and panicked. She exclaims that the conference room is supposed to be used for an important union negotiation between Doctor Threat and the henchpersons’ union.
Panel 3: Cassie and Dr. Muskiday stand in a hallway facing a slightly open conference room door. Cassie asks where Doctor Threat is. Muskiday gestures toward the door and awkwardly suggests that Doctor Threat is inside, in the middle of “collective bargaining,” implying something sexual. From inside the room comes exaggerated, comic-style sound effects indicating vigorous activity: heavy breathing (“hhh hhh,” “hngh”), rhythmic “plap” noises, and muffled sounds (“mmf mmf”). The implication is that the union negotiation has devolved into an orgy inside the conference room.


Marvel Comics baddie, Nightmare, pulled double duty last week, appearing in two unrelated titles concurrently, vying for two different goals.
He was paired with Arcade in
Deadpool Team-Up (a nightmare in itself), battling Herc and the Merc.
Meanwhile, in
Dr. Voodoo, he was using the neophyte doc to gain entrance into our poor, defenseless dimension.
Not only were his motives different in each book, but his overall look and voice were polar opposites. In
Deadpool he appeared as a ghostly apparition (left), materializing behind Arcade for a little expository goodness and then disappearing for the duration of the tale.
In
Voodoo, he (right) was closer to his traditional characterization, the seething, plotting, otherworldly demon.
It’s enough to make a fanboy dizzy. That is, unless he has a handy scorecard…
Nightmare
(Deadpool Team-Up
#1) |
Category |
Nightmare
(Dr. Voodoo
#2) |
Classic Victorian Gentleman |
Fashion |
Classic Steve Ditko |
Slimy, disgusting third-stringer (Arcade) |
Lackey(s) |
Slimy, disgusting "Psychlodermic Mindphibian"
|
Embodiment of Deadpool’s inner voices |
Pawn |
Daimon Hellstrom |
Gary Oldman in "Dracula" |
Look |
David Bowie in "Labyrinth" |
Revenge for Hercules’ part on the war with the Skrull gods
|
Plot |
Use Daimon Hellstrom to trick Voodoo into freeing Nightmare |
Disappears before Arcade falls to ubiquitous defeat |
Outcome |
Gains Dr. Voodoo’s mystic staff. And freedom.
|
"Only by combining the left brain and the right brain aspects of our powers shall we…" |
Oddball phrase |
"My heart could just explode."
|
A Tijuana postcard to Amadeus Cho from Herc and Deadpool |
Special bonus feature |
Dr. Strange remembers the history of Dr. Voodoo
|