Chapter 17 | Page 14b: First-Date Tension

Posted on April 17, 2026 by Brad Guigar

In today’s Evil Inc, Yazmine Velour pitches a viral strategy built entirely on first-date tension — because nothing hooks an audience like awkward chemistry and unresolved feelings. Unfortunately for Captain Heroic, his real-life situation may be trending in a very different direction…

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Transcript

Panel 1
Caption: “A little later…”
Captain Heroic: “I can’t believe we’re having this discussion!”

Panel 2
Yazmine Velour: “The video of you and the waitress did monster numbers! —but we need to come back with something big before we miss our moment!”

Panel 3
Yazmine (off-panel): “I was thinking about a public break-up scene…”
“—really torture your shippers!”

Panel 4
Captain Heroic: “Break up?? We’re not even dating!”

Panel 5
Yazmine: “I like the way you think! There’s no tension like first-date tension!”

Panel 6
Captain Heroic (thinking as he looks at his phone): “There isn’t? Try last-date tension.”
Phone text from Miss Match: “We need to talk.”

Review: Blackest Night #1

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Brad Guigar

So, I’m feeling pretty stupid right now.

I mean, for quite a while I’ve been writing in this blog about my excitement about the upcoming Blackest Night event. It’s been on the horizon for some time, and I gotta say, the dark theme really appealed to me.

And, to be sure, the recent lead-in in Green Lantern #43 and, truthfully, the first several pages of Blackest Night #1 set a tempting scene that promised to meditate on death in the comics (and, in so doing, death in real life).

So imagine my chagrin when I reached the end of Blackest Night #1 and find out that this seemingly innovative, depth-plumbing series is, in actuality…



…that’s right: it’s DC Zombies.

Quick recap for the newcomers: Marvel Zombies was a five-issue limited series published from 2005 to 2006. Written by Robert Kirkman with art by Sean Phillips and Arthur Suydam, it spawned a series of non-continuity stories around the concept of all superpowered beings on Earth becoming flesh-eating zombies after being infected by an alien virus.

I lack the gene that makes me fascinated by zombies. I cringe at the Marvel Zombies covers. I… I just don’t get it. I don’t like zombies and I suspect they don’t like me.

But, I’m in the minority. These books sell very well for the House of Ideas.

So, silly me for not seeing it sooner. In this atmosphere of watching the Big Two chase each other’s tails (Marvel’s Lethal Legion mirroring DC’s Secret Six, for example) DC’s brave new concept is merely a re-tread of one of its competitor’s successful concepts.

A bunch of dead DC heroes and villains are being resurrected by the Black Lantern and reanimated, zombielike, to do battle with the living.

Sigh. And I didn’t even see it coming.

No wonder zombies don’t like me. No brains.