My main man, Blackout. He's a drug addict (me too) cop fighting the at the epicenter of a superhero civil war. He hasn't picked a side. He sold his soul for the power to take people into the nether world that is his drug addiction, manifested as a complete other realm of torment.

He's sympathetic because of his addiction, and will to sacrifice himself so that no other kids would have to. But he also gets a superior high from taking people, any people, even kids, to his little basement apartment nightmare realm.

In my superhero saga, there are five deadly venoms, superheroes who can cut up, incinerate, even beings deemed in Marvel universe terms, invulnerable. There are usually up to ten PowerTrip Enhanced Deputies stick the worldwide population of Infernals, or folks who sell out for superpowers. REALLY sell out.

The Five Venoms are Captain Chainsaw (the super-tranny), American Ace ( returned from the 1950s to lead the 2050s Infernals), Borealis (lasers, invulnerable, lightspeed transportation), Jade (a Magdalene figure, Christ follower) (sonic compulsion, charisma, invulnerable/ angelic wings give instantaneous transportation along line of sight). And Blackout, a good bad guy who's a wildcard in the war.

These are the badasses, but there's whole eco-systems of lesser-powered heroes. There's a legend that says that when Blackout took the Vanisher's soul to his netherworld, he couldn't contain him anywhere, bury him deep enough in fog. Crazy Gary, The Vanisher, the original venom. He looks at you and doesn't much like you, and in a blue camera flash you vanish. He a disintegrator. And he has no physical body.

My main main, Roger Hesker, The ThoughtCrime, is just a bowman like Hawkeye, on the psychopathy scale, and can see your thoughts as they form, giving him about a split second of pre-cognition on most rooms or battlefields. And he knows all your secrets. So he's a blackmailer, too. Whatever works. He's pragmatic. He's a flyweight in the ecosystem, but he's the man who's designed the kill of the last four venoms. He's essentially an engineer of how to kill superbeings that meet Marvel universe's invulnerable category.

In the civil war, Hesker sells to both sides. Why not? As long as his will is done.

And I anchor all my stories not always in the big superhero's point of view. In my best story, the hero is a little girl with her two moms getting her book signed by Borealis when the civil war traumatizes her.

I hope some of you see that I'm trying to forge a mythology of superheroes, the elite, the scumbag queers, the snuff film makers, all akin to mythological monsters like the Chimera or Cyclops. Scary shit. And Loki, who is like Hesker. I'm trying to build a myth, an unbreakable fabric, an iconography.

My will is almost done.