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Posting tomorrow's Evil Twin just a little bit early this time.

Why? Because I'm a bit excited about this one.

When I was originally planning it out, I'd penciled in a role for a generic bureaucrat type. But the joke evolved and evolved and suddenly, I didn't need a bureaucrat, I needed a real monster.

And it just so happened, I had one.

Meet Vipersnot, a character I haven't drawn since 1985. That's 29 years since he last came out of my pen. He was just one of a gaggle of bad guys who cropped up in a series of comics (STUFF comix!) drawn by myself and a jr. high school chum, for the sole purpose of amusing ourselves while we ignored art class.

They were full of robots, and spaceships, dragons and blobby things with eyeballs, and really really bad jokes, and even worse art. At least the pages drawn by me were.

I went digging into the archive looking for some of my old drawings of him, but I didn't find any. Unfortunately, I suspect all my art of him from that era is still in the big brown binder folder we kept all the STUFF comics in, and god knows what's happened to it in the past (nearly) three decades. It's not in my filing cabinet, that's all I know.

So, there you have it. An extremely ancient in-joke only two people in the entire world would get. Myself, included.

I hope younger me doesn't get annoyed that I'm stealing his stuff.

No pun intended.