{"id":4702,"date":"2025-08-26T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:51:37","slug":"minor-super-villain-844-zom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4702","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 844: ZOM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Space adventurers Blast Bennett and his pal Red are tooling around the Solar System one day when they are hailed by and then hauled aboard an enormous space vessel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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This vessel is Plane-City, the mobile headquarters of the space pirate Zom. Actually, I don’t know if “space pirate” is quite the right label for Zom, as his main passion seems to be taking and keeping<\/i> prisoners rather than the more traditional piratical pursuit of taking prisoners and then ransoming them back to their home government or loved ones. I mean, just look at that dank stone dungeon that he has installed on his spaceship, presumably at great expense!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Zom’s downfall comes thanks to the terrible state of his security – firstly, they allow Blast to get their boss in a headlock and chain him up in his own dungeon, and then it turns out that they didn’t even bother to check their new prisoners – one of whom, may I remind you, is named Blast<\/i> – for ray guns. Just professionally shameful.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Zom’s prisoners are all freed via space parachute, while Zom and his men meet their end at the barrel of that same ray gun. Plane-City, alas, does not survive the altercation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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