Jun 6, 2020
Pulp column for The Spy Ring, promoting the upcoming “The Prince of Evil”
#the shadow#pulp shadow#Maxwell Grant#Benedict Stark#interesting that the blurb describing him starts by talking about incredibly well-liked people who are kind#and he's described as the opposite because he's evil#evil and well-liked are not opposites#Stark may have been a tad more interesting had they went with that angle#a horrible monster who's also incredibly popular and beloved#instead he's so obviously and viscerally awful that it's impossible to buy him as a deceiver#he is so deformed and stupidly evil half the time that he just straight up wouldn't have gotten anywhere in a 1930s society#but then again 90% of Shadow villains are evil businessmen pretending to be good#and wealthy respected billionaires who are disgustingly ugly and cartoonishly horrible are not unrealistic#actually that's most of them#so maybe Tinsley had a point