Evil Inc Shareholders’ Report: Trust Issues, Tension Hooks, and a Brand-New Build-a-Baddie! (Patreon)

Welcome back to Evil Inc, where the supervillains are bold, the relationships are complicated, and the SHR* issues are… ongoing. This week, we’re diving into what happens when honesty makes a comeback, a new fan-fueled character event kicks off, and I share a few thoughts on what I’ve been watching lately — for better or worse.

*SuperHuman Resources, 'natch.

Storyline Update: Truth, Lies, and Terrible Timing

A relationship built on trust sounds great in theory — right up until you realize your “honest thoughts” and your “honest words” might not exactly match.

Now that Dr. Muskiday’s emotion-broadcasting clouds are finally gone, Miss Match is gearing up for a long-overdue, very honest conversation with Captain Heroic… and if you’ve been following along, you already know this is not going to be a smooth landing.

Meanwhile, over in the content-creation trenches, Yazmine Velour is pitching 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…

In other words: emotional honesty is back on the table… and it’s already making things worse. 👍

🧪 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 Monday on Patreon. Bring your best (and worst) ideas.

What I’m Watching: Invincible, JJK, and the Great Animation Trade-Off

I’ve been watching Invincible with my sons, and I’ve got… thoughts.

First off: the story? Very, very good. Genuinely compelling stuff — even though the violence and gore is way past my personal comfort range. I'm not super comfortable with one character shooting another. The stuff that happens on a median-level episode of Invincible is a real challenge for me.

As someone who does NSFW comics, I'm constantly amazed at how perfectly acceptable Invincible is... yet an animated series based on Phil Foglio's XXXenophile would have people losing their ever-loving minds.

Further, it's a little disappointing to go from watching Jujutsu Kaisen (which we're also following at the moment) to watching Invincible.

JJK features jaw-dropping visuals and animation that constantly raises the bar episode after episode. It's phenomenal.

On the other side of the spectrum, Invincible clearly put all of its budget into getting celebrity voice talent. Some of them are very good.

I just wish a few of those Amazon dollars had been spent on the animation. Some of the scenes are pretty clearly PNGs that get enlarged to show an object moving through space, and it's a goddamned embarrassment.

But the story itself is very, very good.

Spice Rack Comics

I started a subreddit for Spice Rack Comics, my collaboration with other NSFW comics creators — https://www.reddit.com/r/Spice_Rack/

If you're on Reddit a bunch, like me, be sure to follow the subreddit and give my fellow purveyors of perv a friendly upvote when you see 'em!

That’s it for this week’s Shareholders’ Report. As always, thanks for reading, voting, commenting, and generally making Evil Inc a much more fun place to work. 😈