{"id":4700,"date":"2022-08-26T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:51:31","slug":"minor-super-villain-128-the-ant-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4700","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 128: THE ANT QUEEN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If there’s one thing that leavens my disdain for jungle comics, it’s that there are some real fun villain tropes in ’em, and one of the best is “human raised by animals who disdains civilization”, and the Ant Queen is one of the most fun <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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She was raised by giant ants! That’s so great! She controls them with her lil antennae! I love her!<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean I guess you could look at the “traitor to your own kind” stuff that the Jungle King is spouting in that last panel as a version of the white supremacy that old jungle and adventure comics were rife with, wherein the greatest crime was e.g. a white person taking the side of another race over that of other white people, but maybe we’ll leave that for another time – the White Renegade is coming up in a few months, anyway. No for now let’s just enjoy how much the Ant Queen rules.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Slam-Bang Comics 006, 1940)  If there’s one thing that leavens my disdain for jungle comics, it’s that there are some real fun villain tropes in ’em, and one of the best is “human raised by animals who disdains civilization”, and the Ant Queen is one of the most fun She was raised by giant ants! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2314,44,175,2255,23,805,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-ant-queen","category-dead","category-fawcett-comics","category-jungle-king","category-minor-super-villain","category-slam-bang-comics","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700","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=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4701,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions\/4701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}