{"id":4590,"date":"2022-11-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:43:54","slug":"minor-super-villain-201-the-werewolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4590","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 201: THE WEREWOLF"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Crack Comics 015, 1941) <\/p>\n

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I love the Werewolf, and here’s a list of the things I love about him:<\/p>\n

-His name: He has the unlikely handle of Prescott Taunton. A minor point but a good one.<\/p>\n

-His motivation: Prescott is a writer. Specifically, he wrote a book about lycanthropy and then shopped it around enough to get rejected at least seven times. And then<\/i> he started murdering the people who rejected his work.<\/p>\n

-His ambiguous lycanthropy: Is he a werewolf or just nuts? In the real world the answer would be the latter, but in a comic book universe there’s room for the kind of low-grade feral human style of lycanthropy that appears to be on display here, which I love. He does seem to have undergone some minor physical changes so I’m inclined to believe that he’s the real deal.<\/p>\n

-His ease of capture: Though he puts up a bit of a fight and manages to flee his penthouse lair when the Clock and his pal Pug show up, it’s a very short reprieve as he doesn’t even make it to a proper second location, being knocked out in one punch on the street below.<\/p>\n

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It’s been a while since I said that a villain should be BRUNG BACK<\/b> but I’m saying it now – homicidal sensitive-to-rejection possible werewolf writer is a fun villain hook! Lift the story entirely and give it to the Creeper or someone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Crack Comics 015, 1941)  I love the Werewolf, and here’s a list of the things I love about him: -His name: He has the unlikely handle of Prescott Taunton. A minor point but a good one. -His motivation: Prescott is a writer. Specifically, he wrote a book about lycanthropy and then shopped it around enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,42,1060,1541,23,58,56,575,7,1542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-bring-em-back","category-clock","category-lycanthrope-werewolf","category-minor-super-villain","category-names","category-quality-comics","category-revenge-killer","category-the","category-werewolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590","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=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}