The Legion of Doom. The Injustice League. The Serpent Society. You’ve read all of these names before in your childhood and forgot about many of them, until now. For those of us that are still reading comic books, we never forgot, but a real life reminder of what these bad guys were to our heroes has no come in the form of Donald Trump’s choices for cabinet members.

We keep hearing The Legion of Doom thrown about the most, but just about every other supervillain team has been mentioned. A potential resource crisis has come about, however, as citizens are running out of names to bring up. In a sort of geeky one-up-manship, folks have been obsessed with adding more obscure group names to the list and are starting to come up empty. They are running out of supervillain groups to namedrop, and it’s getting worrisome.

“I stopped at the U-Foes. I couldn’t think of anything more obscure than that. Then someone brought up the Children of the Vault and I was kicking myself in the ass for not remembering them,” said Antoine Fordham of Lawrence, Kansas. “There are just only so many people can remember! Like, who remembers the Time Stealers from Booster Gold? Anybody? Nope, no one does!”

While the obvious ones have all been mentioned, a few have seemed to go unnoticed, but once we mention them here they will be off limits for others to one-up each other with. As it is our duty to report the news fully and justly, we have to mention the Twelve Brothers in Silk from Birds of Prey and The Assembly of Evil that appeared during Marvel’s Acts of Vengeance. We actually think that might be the most appropriate comparison, so far. Sorry, you can’t use those names now. We’ve used them.

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We keep on hearing it. 2016 is the worst year, ever. The year of the reaper is taking our best. According to Trump, Mexico doesn’t send their best, but apparently, the Grim Reaper keeps taking the best, from everywhere. We’ve lost amazing musicians, fantastic actors, great writers, award winning comic book artists and creators, but we still have a gaggle of douches here on this planet that we’d totally love to trade in.

If you’re a comic book fan, you’ve been rocked by the terrible news that Steve Dillon (Preacher, Punisher, Hellblazer)  has passed away. Earlier we lost Darwyn Cooke (Catwoman, Richard Stark’s Parker, New Frontier) as well, and who knows who else might leave us by the year’s end.

And yet, we still have Donald Trump. Can we make a trade? How about Scott Baio? Yeah, they might both make us laugh at them, but that’s no reason to keep them around. Who do we have to call to make this happen?

So, those two would get us our comic greats back. Who do we go after for Prince, David Bowie and Lemmy? Yeah, I know Lemmy died in 2015, but it was so close to the end of the year that I think it counts. Besides, I’d trade probably half of the senate or congress just to get Lemmy back.

Oh man, Mike Pence has to have some value on the soule market. He’s a surefire hatemonger and would be the perfect person to trade-in to get someone we all love back. Mike Pence can leave and we can get Gene Wilder back! That sounds like such a sound and perfect deal to me.

Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest is a tough one to lose, as well. Sorry, Rudy Giuliani, it’s time for you to go.

Really, we can clean house this way. Get back all the worthwhile humans, the talented and the best we’ve ever known. I have some cousins and friends I’d like to get back as well. Sure, you may not know them, but they’re definitely better than the garbage politicians, hate mongers, racists, misogynists, rapists and human monsters we have in or running for office. Come to think of it, those words could apply to just one person in a few cases.

So, Grim Reaper, buddy, baby. Can we make a deal?

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