Thursday, April 16, 2009
Ask The Reverend
(First Published on The International Society of Supervillains 04/10/2009)
Dear Reverend Rogue,
I'm a 15 year old girl. My problem is, all my friends keep coming to school wearing new clothes, and I'm stuck wearing hand me downs from my siblings. My family doesn't have a lot of money, but it makes me feel inferior to my friends when I see them coming to school in all their new clothes and jewelry. What should I do?
-Jealous in Colorado
Dear Jealous,
The problem here seems to be that you're not happy with yourself. The problem here isn't money or the lack of new clothes. The problem here is that your friends are insolent and should bow down to you. If they had already done this, then money and new clothes would soon follow. From your friends. Whether they liked it or not. Clearly, since you have let this problem go on for so long, there is no way to reverse it with your current set of friends. The only solution is to destroy them all and make new friends. Possibly from scratch. You may laugh now, but cybernetic friends armed with extremely large lazers and bio-vaporizers are handy when it comes to gathering money and cool new threads.
Dear Reverend Rogue,
I'm a twenty-three year old man, who has recently finished getting my college degree in bio-chemistry. I haven't gotten a job yet, because I have a large inheritance from my deceased parents (who were murdered in front of me by an unknown gunman when I was 7) and have also taken the reins of my father's company. My problem is, lately...I've been getting the urge to dress up in a costume and fight crime. I'm not sure where this urge is coming from, and I'm afraid to tell any of my friends because I'm afraid they won't understand. I should also mention that I think I have discovered a formula in my lab that will give me super human powers. I'm not sure how to proceed. What should I do?
-In The Closet in Gotham
Dear "In The Closet"
I sympathize with your plight, but I'm afraid that there is really one one solution to this. You must destroy yourself. You now have the potential of destroying the lives of everyone around you, and as a potential superhero, you wouldn't want that. You would be much better off sparing them the pain of being captured and murdered by some clever supervillain, and finding the nearest high ceiling and short rope. Of course, if this doesn't appeal to you, we have specialists who might be able to help you. As a matter of fact, I have already dispatched a few of my "specialist" to your return address who will be able to treat you of this malady. They are also instructed to return with your "Super power formula", so leave it out somewhere they can find it, please...thanks.
Step 1: Realizing YOU Are The Rat
So you've gotten yourself a house. You've worked hard for this moment! Years of hard work, conglomerating into this one moment...you are officially an adult. You have a yard to mow, bills to pay, a spouse and/or children to keep happy...go ahead. Take a moment. Breathe it in. You smell that? That, my friend...is the pinnacle of your success. Chances are, unless for some reason you win the lottery, somehow become famous, or run for president and all the other nominees die...well, this is it. Kinda bites, doesn't it?
Oh, not the having a family and all that stuff. That's great. But, where do you go from here?
Well my friends, that's where I come in. I'd like to introduce myself. I'm the Righteous Reverend Rogue, and I am about to set your feet firmly on the first steps of your next journey: Complete Neighborhood Domination.
Some of you may recognize me from The International Society of Supervillains. For those of you who came here from that link...welcome. For the rest of you, who somehow stumbled upon this by accident and for some reason see no reason to become the sole dictator of your neighborhood, don't worry! You will be corralled and exterminated in short order.
Ha. Just kidding. We know where you live. We'll come to you.
The good news is, we here at W.U.I.T.S are here for you. And with our help, you too will become the ruler of your very own neighborhood. And, as an official Super Villain, I promise not to eventually usurp your little empire into my own.*
You don't have to thank us. We're evil. It's kinda what we do.
*Actual results of Super Villain promise may vary.
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