This week's REMAKE challenge from Warren Ellis' WHITECHAPEL boards. This is a really weird one:

The Set-Up: "Locke, Quentin. Quentin Locke (played by Harry Houdini) was created by Charles Logue and appeared in The Master Mystery (1919). Quentin Locke is a Federal Agent (for the Department of Justice) who takes on the gang known as International Patents, Inc., who are dedicating to stopping social progress and who are led by Q the Automaton, an evil (albeit clunky) robot. (Okay, technically speaking he's a man in a metal suit.) Q the Automaton has on his/its side the Dictagraph, an advanced eavesdropping device, DeLuxe Dora, a femme fatale, and the rare Oriental poison, Dhatura Stramonium, but they're all no match for Quentin Locke, an escape artist extraordinaire and creator of an explosive bullet which puts paid to Q.
Ellis: Not especially interested in Locke, though feel free to have fun with that if you like. Another link adds another member to International Patents: the "Madagascar Strangler"
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My take on this; find the worst stock photo I could under the search terms "business meeting" and put the villain characters into the photo. I placed as many crappy cliches as I could into the shot: fake "interested" looks on the people, a bar graph and chart, "business" things there for no reason (briefcase, phone, calculator), power ties on the men, a business suit for the woman. In short, I tried to suck out anything unique or interesting from the characters and replace it with boring corporate images. I even made the worst logo I could for the company, complete with over-used "swoosh" symbol that EVERYONE uses for no damn good reason.