Seizing The Yellow Ring: Succession Planning in the Sinestro Corps

Welcome back to Funding the Kryptonite, a blog that will take a look at comic book super villains and discuss them from a business perspective.

Before getting started I want to give a big shoutout to Astro Books here in Montreal. Since getting back into comics just before Infinite Crisis, they've been my shop of choice. Ray, their comic guy, offers great personalized service and is hugely helpful for suggesting good new things to read or getting you older stuff. Plus they've got some excellent discounts. Check them out! 

Today’s article will be a continuation of the series on the Sinestro Corps. The first article in my overview of this organization, centered around their training and recruitment, can be found here. This article is going to be about the succession planning of the Sinestro Corps. How well positioned are they to handle the loss of their top talent up to, and including, their namesake leader Sinestro?

Leadership, Like Lightning: Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts Management

Welcome back to Funding the Kryptonite, a blog that will take a look at comic book super villains and discuss them from a business perspective.

Before getting started, I wanted to put out an open call to other bloggers, comic or otherwise. I would love to increase my own exposure to the community by doing a guest post for you on a mutually agreed upon topic. I’ve got an MBA and an undergrad in Sociology, plus some diverse work experiences, so I can pen a piece on a number of different topics. Please contact me through the email link in my profile and let me know what we can set up. I’ll also happily offer you the same guest post opportunity, and a link from here.

Today’s blog post is going to touch on Norman Osborn, popularly known as Marvel’s first Green Goblin. Best known for killing Spider-man’s girlfriend Gwen Stacy, Norman was given control of the Thunderbolts (a government sponsored team of supervillains who were charged with enforcing the Super Human Registration Act after the Civil War crossover event). Team leadership is never an easy task to start with, and Norman is amazingly poorly suited to that. Let’s talk about why.

Reliability, Relationships, and Responsibility: Three Failings of Doom

Welcome back to Funding the Kryptonite, a blog that will take a look at comic book super villains and discuss them from a business perspective.

Today’s post will focus on one Victor Von Doom, better known to the Marvel Universe as Doctor Doom. Famed arch nemesis of the Fantastic Four, and Reed Richards in particular, his rise to power was chronicled in an excellent miniseries titled Books of Doom. I’m going to discuss some of his decisions and their outcomes in his early career path, and why I believe they were bad.