Viper Comics’ miniseries “Villains” has recently been picked up for the silver-screen treatment by Universal Pictures, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter. “Villains”, by Adam Cogan and Ryan Cody, is about a young man named Nick Corrigan, a down-on-his-luck loser with no job, no prospects, and a mean temper, who can’t stand his city’s local hero The Flying Ace. Nick finally finds purpose in his life when he discovers a secret about his elderly next-door-neighbor, Charlie Cobb. He was formerly a notorious super-powered villain known as The Hardliner, and Nick blackmails his way into an apprenticeship in super-villainy under Cobb, but having no idea what the original Hardliner…