Chapter 17 | Page 14b: First-Date Tension

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…


Commissions: Get on the List

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Patreon backers get first crack, then I’ll open whatever remains to the public.

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If you’ve ever wanted to direct your own Evil Inc moment… this is your shot.


November Collection: No Subscription Required

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Inside:

  • Evil Inc After Dark #79

  • A Monster Girl Poll

  • No Nut November cartoons

  • The EiAD Double Crossed eComic ( (46 pages)

  • A sneak peek at the upcoming Udders book

  • And spicy commissions featuring Cassie Cruz, Miss Match, and Captain Scarr

Dip a toe in… and if you like what you see, there’s a whole ocean waiting.

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.”

SPX 2007

The big BLC train pulls into Bethesda, MD, this weekend with my two Webcomics Weekly pals, Dave Kellett and Kristofer Straub, and I appearing alongside Howard Tayler and Dave Willis. Click on the image to the right to get a printable PDF map to help you find us at SPX. I’ll have both Evil Inc graphic novels and the Courting Disaster book on hand, and I’ll be taking commissions for sketches all weekend long. Want a print? Need an original? Tell me now and I’ll have it on hand! See ya there!