Evil Inc Shareholders’ Report: A few things to SMILE about
Plus — What can a cartoonist learn from a 99-year-old menace?
Welcome back, shareholders. This week at Evil Inc, science has gone a little too far (again), boundaries have been enthusiastically ignored (on brand), and I was reminded—thanks to Mel Brooks — that fear is optional, horniness is eternal, and great comedy rarely asks permission. Let’s get you caught up...
📈 This Week in Corporate Villainy
Coming up on Evil Inc, Dr. Muskiday is anxious to show his new invention — Project SMILE — to the rest of the gang in the office. Nothing bad could ever possibly come of this. Also, if you missed my clever promotion for my friend’s Kickstarter, you missed a wonderful moment.
Valentine’s Day Sex Drive
Every year, I participate in the Valentine’s Day Sex Drive. It’s an annual event in which members of the NSFW comics community take the opportunity to celebrate Valentine’s Day with spicy pin-ups! Watch the Evil Inc website this week for details. Here’s a little taste of what I have cookin’ for you...
👑 “It’s good ta be da king…”
While watching Mel Brooks: The 99-Year-Old Man, three things jumped out at me and immediately elbowed their way into my creative psyche.
First: Fear. Or rather, the systematic, professional-grade obliteration of fear. Again and again, the documentary circles back to how much of Mel Brooks’ creative power came from refusing to be intimidated — by authority, by convention, by “good taste,” or by the quiet little voice that says don’t do that, people might judge you. That hit me right in the gut.
Fear is the tax we all pay for wanting to make things. Brooks just… stopped paying it.
Second: as the Zoomers would say, that man was horny on main.
I rewatched History of the World, Part I last night, and wow — no easing into it. From cavemen masturbating in the opening moments to wall-to-wall boob jokes, dick jokes, and lust as a driving historical force, the movie commits early and never lets up. It’s joyful. It’s shameless. It’s aggressively adolescent in the best possible way.
And as an ol’ gentleman pornographer, I found it deeply affirming. There’s something comforting about realizing that one of the most celebrated comedy legends of all time built his empire by saying, “Yes, but what if we made it dirtier?”
Third (and finally): whatever happened to Mary-Margaret Humes?
Va-va-va voom. That is all.
Taken together, it’s a reminder I didn’t know I needed: Fear is optional. Horniness is timeless. And comedy works best when it’s unembarrassed about what it loves.
Which is… honestly a pretty solid Evil Inc mission statement when you think about it. 😈
👑 Getting to the Root of the problem
It was definitely “one of those days.” I saw that Bud Plant was being inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame, and I got super excited. I went looking for some suitable art to post, and I realized I was thinking of the wrong guy.
Anyway, here’s some cool art by Budd Root.
💡 Looking Ahead
As always, thank you for being part of this strange, horny, ambitious experiment. Whether you’re here for the long-form storytelling, the dirty dad jokes, the sci-fi nonsense, or the After Dark chaos — I’m genuinely glad you’re along for the ride.
More soon.
— Brad 🖤