Of course I am. There can be only one Evil Overlord. I’m happy to be a
henchman . You know, Basking in your evilness 
Thank you, thank you. I thought at first you were casting aspersions on my personal hygene 
I’ll tell you what: I missed you guys. self-imposed exile or not, t’wernt easy. (and my pennence was exactly 14 dollars and 95 cents)
Welcome back Winston
What odd timing. **Anduril ** just started a thread today, I miss.
I think the organization has gone to pot lately though.
Jim
Well thank you, Jim. I’m flattered.
And unfortunately, I agree with you re. the organization. You’d think that an evil empire would have greater capacity for self-perpetuation, but it really doesn’t. We’ll get things back on track, though, for sure. I’ll look for the keys to the Volcano lair, you dust off the jumper cables, and we’ll round up the crew and “do something” about “Mars”. Yes?
Welcome back. It is good to see that you have returned. I had hoped that would be the case in the dark days of your self-imposed exile.
Ah. I see you’ve been reading the same book I have (“To Crush The Moon” by Wil McCarthy). 
Many thanks, Nic. It is hard to escape the gravitational pull of this place.
<Snort> Fiction!
When I crush the moon, you’ll read about it in the Times.
Ok, for one, a guy that had to start a thread about what to do with this hornet I caught isn’t really cracked up to be the ruler of the universe or anything like that.
You must take baby steps. One of them preferably on the hornet you caught.
Well, live and learn I always say. 
Indeed, that was in my early days here before you were all ready to embrace the full scope of my… uh… <ahem>
Anyways, ruling the World is a baby step in my (ultimate) quest for domination of the Universe. And who are you gonna trust: me, or Kim Jong Il? I mean, given the alternatives, how can you possibly cast your allegiance elsewhere? Seriously. You’re lucky I haven’t a lackey about. Talking smack like that in my Welcome Back! thread.
By the way, in my entire bizarre body of work here, that was one of the most fun threads to write. I enjoyed it then, and enjoyed re-reading it now, though it’s always troubling to read old threads and see so many doper names with “Guest” as the avatar.
Believe it or not, I remembered that thread from the original reading. It’s always what I connect your username to when I see you posting about the place. 'Twas a good time!
And Welcome back. Where can someone pick up an application for lackey or henhman?
or henchman. Is the sidekick position still open?
Hey, I remember you.
Didn’t you kill my brother?
Henchmen, henchladies, henchpersons…
It’s all acedemic provided you have the desire and will to do my bidding.
Yes, yes. Still sore about that, are we?
Have you ever seen yourself and **Tupug Anachi ** in the same room at the same time?
It wasn’t so much the killing as the drizzles of chocolate syrup and dollops of whipped cream afterwards. That just exceeded the boundaries of good taste.
But I’m better, now. Did you know they made Thorazine in orange-flavoured chewables?
You mean to tell me, you only read the publically-distributed version? That was a fake, a misleading smokescreen. It was intended to make the uninformed public think, “That Wil. What a goof. Always writing that science fiction. Can’t he keep his mind on the real world?”
The real version was considerably-more technical and short-term action-oriented, even naming which pieces of Mad Science would be needed to achieve the goal, and who would profit.
But, hey, if you’re not on the Evil Megalomaniacs Mailing List, that’s not my problem.
Now, now, great minds thinking alike and all that.