A Year in Villainy: The Best Evil Inc Moments of 2025 (Patreon)

Every year around this time, I like to step back and look at what actually landed.

Not just the comics that performed well algorithmically, or the ones that happened to hit on a good posting day — but the strips that made me laugh while drawing them, surprised me once they were on the page, or sparked the kind of comment threads that remind me why I still love doing this after all these years.

2025 was a particularly fun year inside the Evil Inc universe. We leaned harder into character moments, let jokes breathe a little longer, and occasionally followed a gag far past the point where a more sensible cartoonist would’ve shut it down. Some of these comics became reader favorites immediately. Others snuck up on us weeks later when people were still quoting a single panel or line of dialogue back at me.

So this isn’t a “greatest hits” list based purely on numbers. It’s a curated walk through the comics that felt most Evil Inc this year—the ones that defined the tone, the characters, and the particular flavor of workplace dysfunction we’ve been perfecting since 2000.

There may be no better moment to kick off with than this moment in Desi's throuple, which appeared on the Evil Inc website on January 7th.

January saw the launch of the 16th chapter of Evil Inc (collected into Evil Inc eComic #58), Double Crossed.

A mole in the Fairmount branch of Evil Inc was leaking insider information to the superheroes. The villains suspected their new manager, Cassie Cruz, who had previous ties to the heroes through her company, The Silver Agency. To clear her name, she had to find out who the mole really was. Meanwhile...

Angus the minotaur returned — and he was determined to reignite the old flame that once flickered between him and Lightning Lady. The story started with this unusual opening scene.

As the leaks begin happening, Cassie is quickly identified as a suspect. And that brings a series of assassination attempts, including cursed coffee — and this pun that I thoroughly enjoyed foisting upon you.

Angus arrives as a hench for the Lethal Librarian, and starts working on prepping a safehouse in a nearby neighborhood. However, the next-door neighbor is a force to be reckoned with.

Later, an alternate universe Lightning Lady (from Evil Inc After Dark #16 in 2016!) shows up at the safehouse, and sparks begin to fly — literally. It's all cozy and dreamy until the real Lightning Lady shows up.

Lightning Lady decides Angus deserves happiness — and steps out of the way. She tells her friend Miss Match that she can't compete with her doppelgänger.

Back at the safehouse, Phenomenal Lass is on the scene — but she's covering a completely different crime. This gave me a chance to really solidify her character as someone who is innocently unaware of the effect she has on the people around her.

Back at Evil Inc, Cassie believes she has uncovered the mole, and all fingers point to Angus. Lethal Librarian promptly banishes the bullman into the Ernest Hemingway novel, "Death in the Afternoon," which discusses the history, ceremony, and traditions of Spanish bullfighting. That gave us this moody moment.

The villains celebrate having vanquished the spy amongst them with a night of karaoke, which gave me a moment to show how Miss Match and Cassie are handling the fact that they both share feelings for Captain Heroic.

In the climax of the story, Lightning Lady faces off against the real spy — her own doppelgänger! And that gave me the opportunity to draw a rare Evil Inc battle scene!

In the end, the alt-u Lightning Lady is vanquished, and Angus' name is cleared — allowing Lethal Librarian to return him to the real world. This gave us a long-awaited moment where Lightning Lady and Angus share a tender moment.

To close out the story, Mister Prentice is revealed to have had a major role to play in the corporate spying. The chapter ends with the return of Yazmine Velour.

Looking back at these comics, what stands out most isn’t just the jokes or the moments on the page — it’s the conversations that happened around them. The comments, the quotes, the “wait... WHAT?!?” messages, and the reader theories that always manage to be insightful. That feedback loop is what keeps Evil Inc feeling alive, and it’s something I don’t take for granted.

Thanks for being part of this strange little company in 2025 — for reading, supporting, reacting, and laughing along the way. If these comics did their job, they made your day a little funnier. Here’s to more bad decisions, worse meetings, and even better comics in 2026.