Here’s your early access to the full-page version of next week’s Evil Inc comics.
NOTES: In the panel-by-panel scroll, Catnip is purposefully omitted since she is a bystander and not part of the direct storytelling. Also, I’m experimenting with including a transcript on the full-page posts to help make the archive more searchable.
Transcript
Panel 1
Iron Dragon: I’d better go get Desi!
Tempest: She’s ok… The effects of my powers wear off pretty quickly.
Panel 2
Tempest: Besides… I don’t see a wedding ring.
Panel 3
Iron Dragon: It’s… complicated.
Tempest: I’m not. When I see what I want, I reach for it.
Panel 4
Tempest: …But since we’re in public, I’ll reach a couple of feet higher.
Panel 5
Iron Dragon: I don’t think I should—he— OOOOP!
Iron Dragon trips backward over a chair, knocking the Randomizer off a nearby desk. The Randomizer is a gun that can transport its target to a parallel universe — completely at random — resulting in that person or object being lost forever.
Panel 6
Iron Dragon topples over and the Randomizer hits the ground, firing as a result of the impact.
Panel 7
Iron Dragon, looking in the direction of the laser blast: Ohhhhhhhhh, shit.
Panel 8
The employees of the Fairmount branch of Evil Inc gather around a smoldering mark on the carpet that looks strangely like the silhouette of outstretched tentacles.
Count Spurlock: Wha—WHAT HAPPENED?!
Dr. Whoosh, dazed: We were just finishing signing the papers… We were gonna take the office out to lunch.
Miss Match: But where’s Krakenos?!
Iron Dragon: He’s been RANDOMIZED.
Panel 9
Dr. Whoosh: OK, everyone, don’t panic. The company has a contingency plan for situations like this.
Panel 10
Dr. Whoosh: YOU’RE ALL FIRED.