Outside of three, one-off stories at the start, volume 7 of Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General is focused entirely on the escalating efforts of the mysterious "Organization", which includes the guy the General keeps insisting acts like the Joker.
In this case, the Organization unleashes a horrible stink bomb in a train station, then tells the Villain League, of which RX is a part, where they've placed other bombs, which they have given credit to the Villain League for. Including a police station and a branch office of the Hero League. The villains split up to try and stop the bombs and run into more of the Organization's members. Including a cyborg who is dangerously obsessed with the Joker-like guy.
Nobody covers themselves with glory here. The Organization succeeds in their real plan, but they seem like a bunch of idiots. It's just the Villain League and the Hero League are even bigger idiots. Or really just the Villain League, the heroes are so disorganized they barely even get involved. With how Jin writes most of the cast as a bunch of buffoons or weirdos, the Organization's characters seem to be written as even more obnoxious weirdos to stand out compared to the first two groups.
I mean, just look at that idiot! He tries to do cool poses constantly and that's what he manages! Is that not a character crying out to get beaten to death?!
Or maybe this internecine warfare just isn't very interesting to me. Jin's very good at using his cast for workplace comedy sorts of stories, where the emphasis is on these characters who know each other and, if not like one another, at least tolerate and understand one another. The first chapter, where we meet the General's parents and they get to find out what their daughter's been up to, that was funny. We see where the General gets some of her personality, but also that her subordinates actually like her, even if they don't get her obsession with Brave-Man.
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