It's a quiet night in the Limbo bar. I see Elvis in his cups, brooding over Marilyn, who’s getting in deep with Lennon, Bowie and Billy Shakespeare. Barman left a glass out for James Earl Jones but word is he’s gone straight to the other place to do voiceovers for the Big Man.
Both sides claimed victory in sparsley attended debate in the race for Dark Emperor of Limboland. Medusa repeated her campaign slogan ‘Who do the voodoo that I do so well?’ Hades set himself on fire. Polls suggested most denizens of Limbo had been watching cricket on Channel Zero
“Let them damned souls come around here and try to take a bite out of our Cerberus, see what happens,” said Mrs Hades, defending her husband’s accusations that new arrivals in Limbo have been eating beloved family pets.
Every #FridayThe13th, there’s a tradition for the denizens of Limbo to dress as dead souls and gather in the Limbo Bar to toast everything they’ve lost, drowning our sorrows in pools of blood and alcohol. No, wait. That’s just every day in Limbo.
The band was hot and steamy in the Limbo Bar tonight. Brother Miles sat in on trumpet. Jimi tore off a few licks. Amy sang her broken heart out. All the best musicians wind up in Limbo. When your numbers up, the fun's just getting started.
Diana the Huntress was paraded by minions of Hades following reports of her 615th assassination attempt on the self-styled Divine Emperor of Limbo™. When it was put to her that Hades is already dead and so efforts to harm him were futile, she said “a gal’s gotta have a hobby.”
Down in the bowels of the lowest reaches of Limbo, you can still find Herod in a dark corner, muttering about how his foolproof plan to slaughter all the innocents could have gone so terribly wrong that even Fox News turned against him.
Even the Succubi know to keep their distance from the old Egyptian ghoul, festering in a corner of the Limbobar, clutching a decaying copy of the Daily Malignant, muttering about how the establishment always had it in for him and he can’t get any peace even now he’s fuggin’ dead