Rogues Gallery 1

This is the second in a series of posts about the characters, storylines and universe of Rob Hanes Adventures.

Your hero is only as good as your villain and with 25 issues (and change) under my belt, there have been some memorable vilains over the years, both big and small…

Chief among Rob’s antagonists is the shadowy international crime lord, the boss of crime bosses, Nicolai Korda. Of no known state or origin, Korda is a mysterious figure who only works from the shadows…

Introduced in “New World Order” (collected in volume 0 of the Rob Hanes Adventures trade paperback collection), Rob did not learn of his identity until “Hostile Takeover” (available in the same collection). Since then, Rob has encountered Korda in Hong Kong (“Image is Everything” in RHA #3), North Korea (“Rob Hanes and the Pirates”/RHA #11), and most recently on the high seas in RHA #23 (“The Taking of the Peregrin”).

Their most offbeat face-off occurred in “Crime Takes a Holiday” (RHA #13), when Rob, while on vacation in the South of France, runs into Korda and suspects him and his henchmen of some nefarious plot…but to say more would be a spoiler, so I’ll keep it at that!

And wherever Korda is, his capo and right hand man, Clemson, is not far behind. Pasty skinned with bleached white hair accented by a black streak, he is perpetually behind a pair of wraparound shades. Though he is always seen at Korda’s side and doing his bidding, on one occasion he broke with Korda to surreptitiously give Rob a lead to help bring into custody a corrupt nuclear scientist attempting to sell nuclear secrets to rogue states (“The Hunt for Octavius Jebru/RHA #6).

Stay tuned for more!