{"id":1935,"date":"2024-05-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:47:00","slug":"minor-super-villain-514-the-ghost-of-rock-rook-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1935","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 514: THE GHOST OF ROCK ROOK"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Blue Bolt v2 001, 1941)<\/p>\n

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“Rock” Rook is a gangster with an incredibly annoying name: hard to parse, seems like it should mean something but doesn’t, plus its’ always written as “Rock Rook” and that’s probably just a quirk of early 20th Century English but it makes me think that his last name isn’t even Rook and that<\/i> makes me think that it means something again but it still<\/i> doesn’t.<\/p>\n

Anyway, he is sentenced to and executed in the electric chair, ostensibly for murder but his annoying name must have contributed some judicial bloodthirstiness.<\/p>\n

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As this is a Sergeant Spook story, Rook’s vow to revenge himself on the judge and jury is not carried out by the traditional methods (fake your own death, hire a mad scientist to resurrect your corpse or put your brain in a gorilla, die but have your secret twin pretend to be your ghost, etc) but rather by his coming back as an actual, factual ghost.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately for Rock Rook the freedom to be a ghostly murderer comes with a major catch: your victim’s ghost can call the ghost cops on you. Sergeant Spook is on the case faster than Rock Rook can line up his next target.<\/p>\n

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After that it’s just a matter of experienced ghost vs inexperienced ghost and Rock Rook finds himself in the ghost-proof jail lickety-split.<\/p>\n

Sergeant Spook is still a comic searching for its sweet spot and and for my money this kind of ghost-on-human crime is where it should focus, particularly if it involves stuff like the murder victim calling the ghost cops on the murderer. <\/p>\n

JUDGE AND JURY REVENGE KILLER SCORE<\/b>: 1\/19+ (very weak showing from a unstoppable killing machine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Blue Bolt v2 001, 1941) “Rock” Rook is a gangster with an incredibly annoying name: hard to parse, seems like it should mean something but doesn’t, plus its’ always written as “Rock Rook” and that’s probably just a quirk of early 20th Century English but it makes me think that his last name isn’t even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1485,671,23,20,198,660,7,884],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-ghost-of-rock-rook","category-judge-and-jury-revenge-killer","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-novelty-press","category-sergeant-spook","category-the","category-undead-ghost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}