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  • Complete Monster: In this darkly comedic world filled with cannibals, giant monsters, and vampires, these three manage to surpass all others in pure evil:
    • The Zombie Priest/The Nameless Man, real name possibly Rumpelstiltskin, is the Big Bad of the entire series, and the Goon's Arch-Enemy. A wicked necromancer and former member of the Coven, the Priest was a demon who would trick poor couples in need to take their babies and eat/sacrifice them. Escaping Hell after a millennium of torture, the Priest sought out the curse of the Nameless Town in order to acquire its power and make both human and demon alike obey him. He turned everyone in a small town into a zombie, turning its sheriff, Buzzard, into an immortal ghoul, later capturing and torturing him for two months via starvation. Tricking a poor farmer named Houstus Grave into becoming his gravedigger, the Priest granted Houstus and his sons leprosy that caused the death of his wife. Running out of zombies thanks to the Goon, he decides to use the corpse of a pregnant woman, dubbed the Mother Corpse, to give birth to deadly zombie babies, all while making her believe herself to be an expecting mother. Kicked out of his castle by the Arab, the Priest becomes a street beggar who helps others for money, assisting corrupt businessmen in their murders and ruining the lives of plenty, placing the blame on them. He then kills and eats his most loyal Familiar.
    • Longfingers, the most twisted member of the Coven, is a sinister Bogeyman who runs a seeming church where he murders and preys upon the innocent, keeping their bones as trophies to gnaw upon. Seeking to kill many people in the city to create his "promised land", Longfingers is a monstrous sadist who targets children to devour, in one instance learning of a woman who became a mother late in life. Longfingers stole the child, ate him and sent his teeth to the mother, just to dine upon her sorrows as much as he devoured her child's flesh.
    • Issue #37: Harrison Blank is a cruel robber baron who forces his workers into unsafe conditions to save costs, with many workers dying in his mines. When his garment factory catches fire, 142 women burn or leap to their deaths, Blank refusing any responsibility after having bribed the fire marshal to overlook the safety hazards. When the workers try to unionize, Blank sends his thugs to bust the unions, savagely beating or killing the protesters, even allying with the Zombie Priest to summon a demon after them in the name of his rapacious greed.

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