Saturday, July 29, 2023

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 318: DORK

(Daring Mystery Comics 005, 1940)


There's a great temptation when dealing with an evil scientist named Dork to focus on easy, puerile humour rather than appreciating the other things that make him a good super-villain.


I had a whole bit about how his big plan was to flood the city with white goo (hur hur) and kidnap women to experiment on their bodies but it wasn't sustainable. Ironically, I would have had to jump through more hoops to obliquely reference his monster looking like jizz than if, as here, I just said it.

Good costumes on the henchmen!


This is where the joke fell apart, by the way. There was no good way to link this guy with the jizz jokes that wasn't a huge stretch. Appreciate the cool monster, I guess.

And then he was killed by his own jizz!

Excuse me. He was dissolved by his own blob-monster in a classic example of irony.

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