{"id":204,"date":"2023-07-29T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:30:01","slug":"minor-super-villain-318-dork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 318: DORK"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Daring Mystery Comics 005, 1940)<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Good costumes on the henchmen!<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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And then he was killed by his own jizz!<\/strike><\/p>\n

Excuse me. He was dissolved by his own blob-monster in a classic example of irony. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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