John Constantine deals with a high ranking demon who wants his soul but will settle for his head.  Fuck me , John thinks, I can't even get decently ploughed without Lucifer and his bumboys harshing my buzz. Wankers. Hellblazer Comics, Vertigo.  John can rise to the occasion from time to time.

Th' infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile, Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory above his peers, He trusted to have equalled the Most High, If he opposed, and with ambitious aim Against the throne and monarchy of God, Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud, With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. John Milton, Paradise Lost. 1667.  On the Index Librorum Prohibitorum until 1940.  Awesome artwork by Terrence Lindall , Heavy Metal Magazine, January 1980.   https://thefugitivesaint.tumblr.com/post/162868859283/terrance-lindall-paradise-lost-heavy-metal

  Tough Love. John Wagner, story.  Bill Willsher, art.  2016.

  Raw Magazine.  Winsor McCay.  1912.

  Victor Moscoso, Zap #14. Zap Comix, Last Gasp Publishing.  1998. https://victormoscoso.pro/

     The man who ended Greek independence for once and all.  Originally hailed as a liberator, he read a proclamation at the Games that was cheered so loudly that birds fell from the sky, stunned.  But the moment he turned his back the Greeks broke all agreements and fomented trouble against Rome, again.  This time he moved in and laid waste to the land.  The Greeks were now an occupied land, as they were never a nation.     When Flaminius was about to capture Hannibal, the wily Carthaginian knew the game was up and took poison.  Just as well for him.      Rome always chose survival above everything else.  When they did not, their power was broken and the long decline began.  The Empire lasted until 1453, not a bad run at all.  The U.S. has been here, what, 200 years and change?  And we are in decline.  When the will to govern goes, so does the nation.      I have depicted the General holding a cane swagger stick.  These were popular with Centurians, as a mark of office