Hero or villain: you choose the role

Every Hero & Ink comic needs a villain. The order form lets you decide who that is.

Two story types

The form's story type picker offers a Hero story and a Villain story. In a Hero story the person you are making the book for is the hero: their face on the cover, their city as the setting, and something in the way, a rival, a storm, a broken machine, a cat. In a Villain story the same person is the villain: the mastermind, drawn from their own photos, with a whole city organized against them and, more often than not, coming out on top anyway.

What a Villain story looks like

The Espresso Empress is the showcase's first. Sarra runs an office in Porto the way a chess player runs a board, three moves ahead of everyone, and the book was made for the colleagues who have watched her do it. Nobody gets rescued. The city simply learns who was in charge all along. It is the book for the person who would rather be feared than thanked, which describes at least one coworker in every office.

A villain you bring yourself

A Hero story can have a villain you name. In The Small Signal, Sarah is the hero and her cat Biscuit is the villain, drawn from Biscuit's real photos, markings and all, hoarding the small lost things of San Francisco under the bed. Tell us in the form who or what stands in the way, the cat, the printer, the January sea, and the story is built around it.

Which to pick

A Villain story suits a roast: the coworker, the best friend, the sibling who laughs at themselves first. A Hero story suits the tender occasions, and it is the only option for a new-baby book, where nobody plays the villain. Everything else is the same either way: 26 pages, 50+ panels, a person reading every page before it is sent, $49 USD, delivered typically the same day, always within 24 hours.

Choose the role on the order form. The showcase has both kinds.