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The Bureaucracy of Evil

Help Desk, by Christopher B. Wright

Comic Transcript

ALICE: It's been a week and we still can't find her.

BOSS: This is unacceptable! I want this woman found, immediately!

ALICE: It's going to be hard to do, Boss. Our campus has miles of human-sized ventilation shafts. we don't have the personnel we need to search them all simultaneously.

BOSS: Curses!

ALICE: If you don't mind me saying so, it seems a little strange that our ventilation ducts are so large. Isn't that a little unnecessary?

BOSS: It is both unnecessary and wasteful. However, the "Overlord Achilles Heel Act" of 1953 requires that an complex run by an evil megalomaniac must contain at least one design flaw.

ALICE: I see.

BOSS: I decided this was safer than installing a shiny red self destruct button.

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Comments

The Proofreaders Act of 1982

Requires you to misspell at least one word in your comic :D

You misspelled "personnel"

I would personally have chosen the "No Handrails on Catwalks" option. It cuts down on your pension plan expenses.

:D

You know, I often wonder how it is that I can have so many damn typos in my comic and not have them in the work I do professionally. I've hit upon three reasons:

1. I spend a lot more time on my professional work, since it's what I get paid to do, and therefore I catch more of them

2. The tools I use have more built in proofing capabilities (i.e., Inkscape does not have spellcheck)

3. I karmically balance my reduced typos in the professional world by introducing them into the comic. Thus is the balance in the universe maintained.

The Cure for Typos

Actually, I think you just need more snickerdoodles. That would give you the extra energy boost you need to seek and destroy those sneaky typos. I await your next installment with great joy and anticipation -- typos or no typos. The storyline is just wonderful!

You know...

If the base is ever attacked by starfighters, those ducts will be the first place they aim for >>

Standard...

Standard procedure since that Skywalker kid got lucky at Yavin.

(Note to self, log in if you're going to want to edit messages after)

Google's smarter

If so then Ubersoft ain't that smart, you see Google's design flaw is that they don't have a roof/ceiling instead they have a man eatting monster thing...

I don't think a man eating

I don't think a man eating monster in the ceiling is a Design flaw in an Evil corporation. I Think of it more like the Google version of Binky...

Evil Overlord List

Concerning design flaws in evil lairs, I just feel oblidged to point out the Evil Overlord List. For the benefit ofe those few who don't know it yet.

The Boss

I note that The BOSS remains sans identifier since #1470 when said identifier relapsed into Google(tm)ification. The trauma must be wearing by this point.

First posting by a long-time lurker / OS/2 fan / MacBook Pro using Parallels & WinXp - The more layers you add, the deeper into the woods you get when the inevitable breakdown happens!

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