At some point I’m gonna spend a week posting things to this website with titles like “Does This Bible Passage Prove God Is An Alien?” like clickbait titles, but the articles attached will not ever offer any answer. The whole thing will just be the question continuing. This is what I think of every time I see a headline in the form of a question, so it will briefly amuse me to make it real.

Anyway, you’ve been warned.

It’s perfectly in keeping with Rocket Racer’s luck that his supervillain arch-nemesis is a character who has appeared about three times as often as Bob has. And who also first appeared almost a decade before Bob. And who really only tangled with Bob twice. Okay, really, it’s a bit of a stretch to say Speed Demon is really Bob’s arch-nemesis, but the two times they encountered each other they really did get under each other’s skin.

It makes sense too. Rocket Racer and Speed Demon are both guys who go fast and they’re both the types who enjoy it and love showboating and stuff. They’re kinda similar, really. The difference is that Bob built all his tech himself and Speed Demon was just some chemist who was seemingly chosen at random by a cosmic entity to receive the ability to move at superhuman speeds. It feels right that Bob’s rival would be a capable but a little dumb guy who got his powers by chance and decided to be a dick with them.

Bob and Speed Demon clashed in the era when Bob was trying to be a hero as a job. That all fell through, so Bob is now often back on the wrong side of the law again. And, outside of the fictional universe, each character is the type who I can imagine on a list of criminals that some Spider-Man writer would choose from to assemble a crowd scene. I could easily see Rocket Racer and Speed Demon being on the same random gathering of criminals robbing a bank or something, like stickers being placed in an activity book. If it happens, I can only hope Speed Demon continues to annoy Rocket Racer. It’s fun.