YMMV / The Ballad of Black Tom

• Complete Monster: Robert Suydam poses as a humanitarian for the sake of his own ego but is actually a ruthless cultist and monster. Attempting to sway the titular "Black Tom"—Charles Thomas "Tommy" Tester— to his side, Suydam participates in Human Sacrifice and other cruelties in his worship of the mysterious Sleeping King. Attempting a powerful ritual, Suydam means to destroy most of humanity with the Sleeping King and conduct his own reign after.
• Magnificent Bastard: Charles Thomas "Black Tom" Tester begins as a talented hustler who finds himself roped into the wicked schemes of white supremacist occultist Robert Suydam. First proving his cleverness by delivering an occult tome while plucking out a key page, Black Tom eventually embraces darkness as a result of his father's murder and assists Suydam in taking over New York tenements before revealing he had tricked Suydam to take over his schemes and murders him. Forcing the Detective Malone to gaze into the abyss at the "Sleeping King," an Eldritch Abomination he plans to awaken to end the corrupt and racist world he despises, Black Tom also cuts away Malone's eyelids to remind him that blindness is no longer a choice.