MR. MISTER
You don’t know the things he’s done, the chaos he’s set loose in his time…
JUDAS
I do. I know all about him. Dr. Notto Nefarious, born in 1962 in Horsefly, British Columbia, in his father, Dr. Primo Nefarious’, secret mountain lair. He was raised by henchmen, started university when he was fifteen and got his doctor’s degree three years later. His father died the next year in an accident with Rubberman and a giant tube of glue, and he took over the family business. He arch-enemied Hair Helmet, Monkeyman, Power Beam, and somebody called the International House of Protectors —
MR. MISTER
IHOP. That was my team. And my name.
JUDAS
And after a final battle between IHOP and Dr. Nefarious at the Toronto Harbourfront in September 1987 —
MR. MISTER
Do you remember those Breakfast Bots of his? Toucan Sam, Quisp, that little leprechaun —
JUDAS
He was knocked out by one of the heroes, arrested, and spent the next twenty years in prison.
… from Act I of The Nefarious Bed & Breakfast. Reading of the new draft coming early in June. Watch this space …