Intermission – April 21 — Evolution Success

Posted on April 21, 2026 by Brad Guigar

Build-a-Baddie Returns (And It’s Bigger, Badder, and More Chaotic)

The last Build-a-Baddie Poll was such a hit, it spun off not one but two projects — a microfic and a 1,500-word short story!

So naturally… we’re doing it again.

Welcome back to Build-a-Baddie — the crowd-sourced character experiment where you decide:

  • The creature

  • The personality

  • The situation they’re caught in

I take your winning combo and turn it into a brand-new illustration.

There’s also a Wildcard section if you want to whisper your weirdest ideas into the void. No promises… but I will read them.

Voting opens this week on Patreon. Bring your best (and worst) ideas.

Transcript — Evolution Success Stories

A single-panel cartoon shows two bug-like creatures standing on a forest floor surrounded by large green leaves. Both have tall, thin, purple bodies with spindly limbs and antennae. The bug on the right has colorful, symmetrical butterfly wings with orange, black, and white patterns and looks relatively normal — an evolution success story The bug on the left has a strange, mismatched set of wings that resemble bold, graphic signage instead of natural wings. The wings are black with bright orange arrows and large words pointing in different directions, including “TASTY,” “HERE,” and “YUM!” with arrows directing attention toward the bug’s own body. The malformed-wing bug looks uneasy, while the butterfly-wing bug looks on. Beneath the comic, a caption reads: “All I’m saying is… it’s easy to be a fan of evolution if all you hear about are the success stories…”

To the right of the panel is a blue box that reads: “Intermission — The Evil Inc storyline will continue next week.”

Review: Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape #2

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Brad Guigar

Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape #2
 Creative team: Story by Ivan Brandon; art by Marco Rudi

When I attended Alma College, we had kind of a Saturday-night ritual. After coming home from the parties and the non-stop bacchanalia that was my social life, my friends and I would retire to my dorm room and flip on my small, black-and-white TV set. After adjusting the antenna, one of the three stations I’d be able to pick up came fuzzily into view.

By the way. I’m not that old. I graduated in 1991.

One of the TV shows that we’d keep running into was The Prisoner.

Now, in case you’re not familiar, The Prisoner was a surreal series about a former secret agent who is held prisoner in a mysterious seaside village where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job. It wasn’t until the end of the series that anyone was able to make heads or tails out of anything.

My friends and I were seeing re-runs. Skipping episodes. Drunk.

Think of watching Lost out-of-order. Through a fish tank.

We hated that show with a white-hot passion.

Reading Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape has brought back that same feeling to me of being in my dorm room, watching The Prisoner, trying to figure out WTF is going on.

And now I know what people mean when they say that there’s a fine line between love and hate.

There’s no doubt that writer Ivan Brandon is conjuring a Prisoner vibe with this title. But I’m not drunk reading this comic. And I’m a little more mature. And maybe a bit smarter.

And I like it.

Almost makes me yearn for that old black-and-white TV set.