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Headcanon: Zatanna often practices saying her rogues' names backwards. She never knows how quickly she'll need to command them in a pinch, so might as well get some practice in when they're not fighting her. This has led to the unintended side effect of her irrationally hating Tannarak over all her other villains, because at least with Allura or Nimue, it's a 'simple' Arulla or Eumin. 'Karannat' is both longer and a bit of a tongue twister, plus it's the only name he has, which makes it even more annoying.

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I sincerely hope one day Zatanna's rogues gallery expands large enough to where two of her rogues could just get into a fistfight over who gets to hatch their evil scheme against her first. I want to see Nimue Ravensong and Lady White getting into a knife fight behind the magical Denny's parking lot, because Zee is great, and she deserves for even villains to fall over themselves for her.

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Clifford DeVoe figured out Alan Scott was gay sometime during Scott's Golden Age years in the closet. It wasn't a particularly hard line of thought, just an out-of-the-box one, which the Thinking Cap made up for. Turns out raw analytics trumped 1940s social norms. When DeVoe told his theory to The Shade and The Fiddler, Swift was receptive, but Fiddler insisted that DeVoe's thinking cap must've strung together nonsense, pointing to Scott's trysts with Harlequin and Thorn as proof he was wrong. The matter was eventually dropped. None of them were going to go up to Scott and ask the man himself, nor were any of them really interested in proving who was 'right.' They were Jay Garrick's enemies first and foremost, after all. Seemingly, though, Fiddler did win out, seeing as how Scott's children popped into the superheroic fray. However, DeVoe always held that his Thinking Cap had never done him wrong. Years later, when Jay expressed disbelief about Scott's late coming out, it is said that DeVoe choked on his drink and laughed.

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Reading Infinity Inc. right before JSA Classified's Honor Among Thieves arc gives me ridiculous thoughts like Zard carrying toddler Icicle Jr. and going 'Yes this stark-white child is my actual son. Just look at my wife, she's equally white and he got it from her.'

This doesn't match up timeline-wise because Jr. debuts in Infinity Inc. before the Lorelei arc where Zard randomly becomes the consort of a one-time Justice Society evil alternate dimension witch woman, but my brain seems to like silly regardless.

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After going on a run-around on Injustice Society members, it's deeply amusing to me that The Gambler of all people seems to have been the only one to have more than one child. Brainwave? Henry Jr. Icicle? Cameron. Crock and Huntress? Artemis. Yet somehow, Mr. Southern Riverboat gambling man whose gimmick is Knives + Gambling Addiction + Gun had at least two kids, seeing as how his grandkids are referred to as cousins. And said grandkids seem to have loved the guy. They loved him so much his granddaughter ruined the business of the person who caused him to commit suicide, and his grandson took his whole fit and gambling theme. I guess it's way easier to pass on villainous legacies when you're not a terrible parent/grandparent. The silly part of my head wants to say he married one of Roulette's relatives for the gambling puns. Oh and Zard might still (?) be with an immortal witch from another dimension, and his use of her youth fountain is why he doesn't age, which is honestly par for the course from Zard and I personally headcanon this to still be the case.

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I like to think Abra Kadabra is a closeted Zatara fanboy. Like, he watched old recordings of John in the crisp, 64th century archives of magic performers, and now that he's in around the same time period, he's secretly gotten his hands on some 'contemporary' Zatara merch. Even if he did so while ranting under his breath about Zatara's cheap tricks and cheating with magic, that was obviously inferior to his magic. His 64th century, zero-technique 'magic.' I just find the idea of the Rogues deciding to rob Zatanna's audience while she's on tour in Keystone City-- and stumbling upon (a completely undisguised) Kadabra casually in the gallery really funny.

Captain Cold: 'Kadabra!? Guess with this setup, it only makes sense.' Abra Kadabra: 'Cease your taunts, you numb-inducing neanderthal. Some prefer to *observe* before they start the act.' Heatwave: 'Then what's the popcorn for?' Abra Kadabra: 'To pass the time.'

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I've come to the conclusion that merging Mazdan and Bentley Wittman aka the Wizard together would make Wish.com Abra Kadabra. Which is certainly one of the comic thoughts of all time.

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Rereading And Then There Were None is really funny. What do you mean Wargrave wrote a fake letter for himself? Was Constance Culmington real? Was he going to go on elaborate fake stories about her if anyone inside Indian Island bothered to ask him about her invitation? Or was he going to recount real stories and he, in fact, stayed up late at night making his fake invites for his murder victims going 'now which one of my associates would plausibly throw something like buying an island and inviting me to the murder party... aha! I know! Constance!' I know Christie probably made it as a throw-away line to misdirect, but it's so funny, did Mr. 'killing a murderer keeps the number of murderers in the world the same, kill at least two murderers' really make friends with who seemed like a sunbathing aristocrat hippie? How did they meet? Was the relationship that close? I dunno if my plausibly distant remote friend would be up for inviting me to her island without it being a little suspicious. Either scenario is hilarious to me. Either Wargrave made someone out of thin air, or Constance Culmington got out of her Syria vacation one day to look at the news and found her old 'I swear he's not evil, he just gets weirdly into retributive justice sometimes!' buddy got found dead on Indian Island and also badly forged her signature.

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It vaguely shocks me that Gentleman Ghost and Silver Banshee have never met a single time in any canon. Admittedly, they're separated by a rogues gallery and by location (sort of-- do ghost villains really have set locations?), but it feels like a no-brainer for some Bronze Age 50s one-off comic.

I have no idea what they'd talk about, beyond ':0 you're also dead!' but I'd like to see it.