The suggestion for today’s Society of Failed Supervillians entry comes to us courtesy of InkGypsy. May she forgive me for what I’ve done to the name she suggested.

After an underwater photo shoot for the August 1996 issue of Mermaids Among Us (aqua lad mag) Penelope Lace (born Laknomindski) had it pressed upon her by the photographer that he had never seen anyone work so well underwater before. He insisted that she must really be part mermaid because no other model had ever held their breath so long or moved so adeptly underwater. Unfortunately for Ms. Lace her skills were deemed unnecessary by the magazines publisher and she was kicked out of the pool house on her 27th birthday.

Shortly there after, embittered by the experience, she found herself at the Society’s door. As it would happen there was a need for a underwater decoy during their next caper and Ms. lace was welcomed with open arms. During the heist however there was an unfortunate realization. After being left in the middle of the ocean to lure Aquaman as a “damsel in distress” she learned an unfortunate truth… photographers, especially ones that want to take you out to dinner, lie.

Penelope Lace (born Laknomindski) was posthumously honored with the name Undertowed. She also has the distinct recognition of being the only Society member able to boast a 100% success rate.

Introducing the latest entry into The Society of Failed Supervillians…

A failed designer, X-Acto decided to take revenge on the rest of the world for not understanding his greatness. The eventual realization that all his evil conceptualizations weren’t going to come to fruition until he found someone else to take care of the details brought him to the Society. Now he spends all his time concocting plans for complete world domination! Unfortunately, by the time the plans are actually put into effect every other member of the Society has had a say and what was once a plan for total domination becomes an attack on the local laundromat/sandwich counter. *sigh* No one understands…

Ok, I wasn’t planning on doing another member of The Society of Failed Supervillains right away but Kara’s character idea from yesterday was too funny not to draw.

Used to being easily thwarted by even the weakest hero (no super needed) the Society decided to invest in some pre-heist reconnaissance. Enter, The Canary. Prior to each job the Society (attempts) to pull they send in The Canary in to scope the joint out. Her power to fall dead in the general vicinity of anyone with a minute amount of ability lets them know to hightail it out and come back later to pick up her corpse. No one knows The Canary’s real name or where she came from. And no one really cares.

First off, thanks for the positive responses yesterday. Just goes to show it was the cool people that stuck with me.

Speaking of cool, last week I told you that I had gotten a cool sketch request but couldn’t get into it. Well looky above and you will see the beginning of The Society of Failed Supervillains! One of my new west coast Twitter friends, Inkgypsy, gave me the idea on the tail of all the Dr. Horrible hub-bub earlier in the month.

What you see above is the Society’s muscle, Strong Suit. Narcissistic by nature, SS spent hours in the gym but could never get as big as he wanted. After being caught in a freak explosion at the local GNC during his lunch break SS found he could finally lift more than he could ever imagine. But only when wearing the clothes he had on during the explosion.
And it gets all the credit.