Interviewing Injustice: The Questions of Evil Teamwork

Welcome to Funding the Kryptonite, where we will look at the plans of comic book super villains and discuss them from a business perspective.

One of the ongoing motifs of supervillainy is the big team-up of bad guys across multiple rogues’ galleries, usually one or two from each of the main superheroes of the day. Usually less numerous than organizations like The Society, which try to get everyone on-board, an excellent recurring example from DC Comics is the Injustice League. Despite the plethora of big names on board, I’ve always wondered what the in-character rationale for having certain membership rosters is. From a publishing standpoint, these are relatively big names that sell issues. So I’m going to ask what are considered the three “true” job interview questions to see how the recruitment process stacks up for a group like the Injustice League.

Universal Mismanagement: The Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps

Welcome to Funding the Kryptonite, where we will look at the plans of comic book super villains and discuss them from a business perspective.

In today’s post, I’m going to discuss the management of a galaxy spanning organization of space cops. They’re small, blue, and known as the Guardians of the Universe. The head of the relatively heroic organization known as the Green Lantern Corps, the Guardians are actually pretty generally awful people and I have no issues with considering them to be supervillains. That being said, I’m going to grab a list of bad management traits and see how they stack up against them.

Workplace Harassment: Trickster and Pied Piper

Welcome to Funding the Kryptonite, where we will look at the plans of comic book super villains and discuss them from a business perspective.

The issue of the day seems to be gay characters in comic books and the real world outrage by groups such as One Million Moms over the existence of these characters. Apparently, these issues are too complex and hard to understand for children and these parents are concerned about exposure to homosexual characters will harm their kids. I disagree with that position.

So today I’m going to discuss how a partnership between the Trickster and the Pied Piper in Countdown, already somewhat strained due to the circumstances of their situation, gets increasingly worse because the Trickster doesn’t want to focus on business and lets their makeshift work environment go down the drains over the fact that, horror of horrors, the Pied Piper is gay! It shouldn't be a problem, and yet is.