[David C. Matthews]

Okay, for some reason my log-in expired before I could post the previous message and it got posted as "Guest", but that was me expounding on Mr. H4X0R and Sonja.

[David C. Matthews]

Though I’m not as much into villainous femmes fatales as other folk are, how about a muscular female villain? DCM doesn’t have any of those…!

This is true. I was asked why by Lothaire for the interview that appeared in the online magazine FREYA (the link is to a PDF file) (these are the original question and reply in English:)

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[Question]: One thing is particular in your work (until now at least), among the numerous muscular characters you’ve created, none of them belongs to the "villains". Do you try to revert a general tendency (often met in comic books or in movies) where muscular means "nasty" for women?

[DCM]: Oh yes. That’s a trend I’d love to see reversed: that almost every time you see a muscular woman on TV or in a movie, she’s either the villain’s bodyguard/girlfriend/enforcer (or all three), or she’s the pyschotic ex-grilfriend. etc. I’m trying to counter that trend by creating characters who are muscular women who are friendly, kind, and gentle (until it’s necessary to be "not gentle", of course!)

Creating a villainous muscle-woman is almost inevitable; after all, just as She-Hulk has Titania to beware of, Dyna will have to face off against an evil muscle-babe eventually.

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So I certainly have no objections to a muscular female villain. I just don’t want to see it become a trend where every new villain is a muscle-woman. I’d like to see a variety of villain-types… so far I have created (or expanded on ideas started by others) for 1) a power-mad inventor of robots (BlackBox); 2) the God of War (Ares, brother of Dyna’s mentor Athena); 3) an ancient undead sorceror/Atlantis survivor who wants to destroy all life (Mezaros), even 4) a giant disembodied brain (the Master Mind).

So… what do you have in mind?

[David C. Matthews]

Man, Wreck has had more bad luck with his site than anyone I’ve ever seen. I hope that whatever upheavals he’s having will resolve themselves quickly, and in his favor.

[David C. Matthews]

Heh. J.K. Rowling clearly did not exhaust all the possibilities of the Mirror of Erised (but then she couldn’t, she had to keep her writing safe for kids!)

Nice work.

[David C. Matthews]

Hackers and virus coders must die.

Slowly and painfully.

And I’m not joking.

Hate to have my first post on this board be such a downer, but there are few people I hate more in this world than these bastards who have no conscience whatsoever, whose idea of "fun" is to randomly and capriciously destroy someone else’s hard work, just because they can.

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