Most of the time, when I write, it's about superheroes. But very rarely are they crimefighters. In fact, I've only had one actual crimefighter (Creepy Crawly Mimi, who I'm thinking about reviving just for shits and giggles). The rest are magical girls who have a series of "villains" to fight. The Circle of Light has the Phantom King and his lackeys Wrath and Envy; Guardian Angel Lyxemi has a vast endless army of demons to fight (mind, they're not actual "demons" like in classical literature, so much as they're a "manifestation of humanity's worser nature"); The Midnight Prowler has the Venom Queen and various industries threatening the environment; Snow White and Rose Red have the Witch Queen and her heartless monsters; so on and so forth.

I'm just not good at writing normal old criminals and mad scientists, I suppose. I enjoy reading about crimefighters like Batman and Superman, but I don't really agree with their sense of justice sometimes (coming back to that "Who watches the Watchmen?" thing). Maybe my inability to portray one party as "absolute good" and one as "absolute evil" prevents me from writing suitable criminals. Sometimes one starts out as "HAY I'M GOOD" and one starts out as "HAY I'M BAD", but it ends up getting muddled, because I quite frankly suck at writing sometimes most of the time. Most of my villains have a reason for being the way they are, and they're not so much "bad" as "set in their ways" and "perhaps not the most sane critters in the world". The Venom Queen from the Midnight Prowler, for instance, is not actually evil. She's a manifestation of Progress at the expense of the planet's health. I intended to beg the question, "Should we slow progress in order to protect the planet, or should we protect the planet no matter what, progress be damned?" My mind is more geared toward fantasy, cheap-ass symbolism, and stuff like that.

The only criminal I've ever written that's any good is actually supposed to be a hero: Domino Ace, student of Abbie Hoffman and fighter against The Man! I really like writing about him, but then, there aren't many enemies he can fight without sounding stupid, so I relegate him to daydreams and fantasies in which he encounters Guardian Angel Lyxemi.I only wish I could draw better. That way, I could make y'all a nice little comic about my brain-chatter. XP