Dr. Muskiday was this close to finding a way to defeat the macronanos.
Then came a massive power surge.
Now the macronanos are suddenly swimming in raw emotional energy, Muskiday has to redouble his efforts, and nobody at Evil Inc can figure out where all that extra power came from.
Meanwhile, somewhere nearby, Countess Influencia has a very simple request for Captain Heroic:
“Kiss me.”
Mystery solved.
Evil Inc After Dark: Full Stream Ahead collects three complete Evil Inc storylines — along with their adults-only “after dark” counterparts. These spicy chapters peel back the curtain on what happens when superhero satire and workplace comedy take a decidedly NSFW turn.
• Heroic Revenge — Captain Heroic and Miss Match try to build trust while Commander Heroic continues to loom over their relationship. Meanwhile, Lightning Lady falls for a mysterious new face at Evil Inc whose past may prove explosive.
• Homeward Bound — Desi’s time on Earth is almost up unless she can pull off one major act of mischief. Her solution looks suspiciously like an OnlyFans account. Meanwhile, Cap and Miss Match discover that Commander Heroic still has opinions about their love life.
• Long-Lost Fiends — Cassie Cruz’s superhero temp agency is booming, but Thea Rhutman has villainous plans of her own. And Lightning Lady finds herself tempted by an old flame — a cheerful, musclebound minotaur.
And that’s not all. Full Stream Ahead includes the brand-new bonus story “Loads of Love,” an unrated adventure never before collected in print. When Dynasty and Battalion discover their superpowers can be passed along genetically, they decide it may be time to start a new kind of super team — with a little hands-on assistance from their friends.
Packed with superhero satire, workplace comedy, romantic complications, and plenty of adults-only bonus material, Full Stream Ahead is the next oversized installment of Evil Inc After Dark.
Transcript
Panel 1:
Countess: You heard me, Cap… I said ‘kiss me!”
Panel 2
Captain Heroic leans forward to kiss
Panel 3:
Countess’ phone releases confetti, breaking up the kiss: Congratulations! 500.1k followers!
Panel 4:
Countess: That’s… that’s half-a-million!
Captain Heroic: How many followers would make you truly happy?
Panel 5:
Countess: …more.
Panel 6:
Narration box: Back at Evil Inc
Sound effect: Arrrrrggghhhh!
Panel 7:
Holo-Clone Miss Match: What’s the matter, snookums?
Dr. Muskiday: I was so close to finding a way to defeat the macronanos!
Panel 8:
What happened?
Panel 9:
Dr. Muskiday: They’ve had a massive power surge. I’ll need to re-double my efforts!
Panel 10:
HoloClone Miss Match: Where did they get so much raw emotional power?!
Panel 11:
Miss Match (controlled by a macronano) is watching the Countess’ livestream as Hailey asks Cap to kiss her.
Alt text
Five-panel Evil Inc comic. Back at Evil Inc, HoloClone Miss Match asks Dr. Muskiday what is wrong. Muskiday says he was close to finding a way to defeat the macronanos, but they have experienced a massive power surge. He says he will need to redouble his efforts and wonders where they got so much raw emotional power. In the final panel, a macronano reacts violently to Countess Influencia’s offscreen command, “Kiss me,” while HoloClone Miss Match asks whether this means she can use her Mentos bikini.
B-list Iron man baddie, Ghost, makes a big move up the villain ranks in the pages of Thunderbolts #132.
He’d been toiling in obscurity since making his first appearance in Iron Man # 219 (June ’87). His bio is a virtual blank slate.
According to his Wikipedia entry: “He claims to have been a business executive at one time, and that businessmen made him what he is. The Ghost works as a freelance industrial saboteur and seeks to destroy various corporations through sabotage, and is apparently most interested in attacking those dealing in electronics and high technology. He is willing to do this without financial re-compensation, but often hires himself out to corporations that wish to destroy rival companies, having developed a pathological hatred for high technology businesses and business executives.“
According to his fellow T’bolters in the mess hall:
Headsman: “Ghost’s a whadddayacallit. ‘Anti-corporate terrorist.’ He don’t give a rat’s ass about money.”
Paladin: “I guess since Stark went down the tubes, Osborn’s the only game in town — and he’d rather have Ghost inside the tent… Either that or Ghost knows something we don’t.”
Ghost has become a card-carrying member of the tin-foil-hat club, welding himself into quarerts that only he, with his intagibility powers, can enter and exit. He eats only military MREs and sees conspiracy all around him.
Granted, that last one isn’t so hard on Thunderbolt Mountain.
But he’s got his eyes on a lot of what Osborn is orchestrating in the Marvel U right now. And we know that in a world where being able to benchpress schoolbusses and leap buildings is the norm, being able to think is the real super-power.
Which brings us to Ghost’s elevated VQ this week. Ghost knows that Norman Osborn sabotaged some of Headsman’s equipment during a recent mission. If Ghost hadn’t corrected the problem, Headsman would have fallen to certain death. And if he knows that, you can bet he knows more.
And that makes him powerful enough to make the respectable rise to 5 on our VQ scale.
Hopefully Osborne lets him live long enough to see 6.
Thunderbolts #132
Writer: Andy Diggle
Artist: Roberto De La Torre
Colors: Frank Martin
Letters: Albert Deschense
