I would totally hench for a proper villainess

I had all the usual adolescent crushes on all the usual cute young comic book heroines like Kitty Pryde and Donna Troy - spunky teens who didn't take any shit from anybody - but they stayed young and I grew old, and right out of those feelings decades ago. 

But even before I fell for the cute, smart and tough teenagers, I liked the bad girls. And I still kinda do.

One of my very earliest memories in reading comics is having strange feelings for Deathbird in a Ms Marvel comic. I don't know where those feelings came from, but they were definitely there, and I literally did not have the words to describe them.

Sure, she was a bad girl, but she was also misunderstood, and probably didn't really deserve so many kicks to the face. When she took on Carol Danvers, I was Team Cal'syee all the way.

And some of the first DC comics I remember reading had villains like the Cheetah and Poison Ivy, and there were feelings for both of them, no matter how rabidly homicidal they got. Although it should be noted that I have no interest in their more modern incarnations, where they are more animal and plant than human, I just liked it when they were super mean and feral in bright leotards. 

And there was Madame Zodiac hamming it up in a sleek black dress in a World's Finest comic that I was convinced was a lot more important than it was. If she popped out of thin air into my jail cell, I'd be following her anywhere, even if she did have a thing for malevolent clouds of demonic smoke.

This wasn't confined to comics - the oldest dream I can ever remember involves the fucking mutoids from Blake's 7 - and there were a number of evil queens in various sword and sorcery things that might have been murderous monsters, but maybe they just needed a friend?      

These kinds of things don't go away. I still like the bad girls, even when they turn into interdimensional monsters - Steve Yeowell is drawing new pictures of Penny Moon in 2000ad, and that could be worth the astronomical prices they ask for an issue of the galaxy's greatest these days.

Because arched eyebrows and devious plans never stop being sexy, and I would do anything for those girls.