Issue 2: "THIS IS ABOUT PROFITS." WRITTEN BY Jesse Snavlin ARTED BY Dan Schkade COLOURED BY Anastasia Marston-------
TO: [email protected] FROM: [email protected]
SUBJECT: RE: YOUR INTEREST IN ARBITRARY HURDLE DOCUMENTS
Double-Class Star-Level Blue-Collar/SuperHero-Level Hero Omid Rumours, Your inquiry to the Villainous Historical Database has been denied.
These files are considered classified Villainous history. Despite your level of prestige in the Heroic cross-continental journalism community, we are unable to sacrifice historic condemnation clauses to your investigations.
We are not sorry for the inconvenience.
THE VILLAINOUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
His-Story Historical Deputy Other-Level Other THE COMMITTEE
FROM: [email protected] TO:[email protected]
SUBJECT: FWD: RE: YOUR INTEREST IN ARBITRARY HURDLE DOCUMENTS
That's funny, because as I recall you had previously allowed my claims on other investigations. Have you lost your affection for me, Mr. His-Story? I seem to remember we go back quite a ways. Is that not true? We had good times. I guess it must be unimportant to you. Too far away that you've moved on completely?
So far as I understand it, Arbitrary Hurdle, INC. was a subsidiary company of the COMMITTEE FOR EXCELLENTLY HORRID SERVICES TO THE VILLAINOUS COMMUNITY, staffed to the gills with hard-line Other-Level Others and fronted by Wriggler-Chick's predecessor. They're all dead now, all shot by a bullet with an angular inertia only possibly if shot by a speedster in a "drive"-by. Twenty-seven Villains dead. All the highest government class available.
All I'm asking is whether there was an official Committee posting.
Don't you think this sort of thing benefits the both of us?
If Stop And really acted to eliminate Arbitrary Hurdle's presence, the youngest Hunter-Level in existence is just a fake.
FROM: [email protected] TO: [email protected]
How did you get my personal e-mail?
I mean I guess I vaguely remember, but whatever it was, that was years ago, far enough away that I've moved on so completely--
This might benefit the both of us, but protocol is protocol.
And in any case, I wouldn't even begin to know. It's not considered history yet.