My Muses: Misery, Anger, and Love

Last night, I intermittently laid awake in bed until 4 AM. Many thoughts ran through my mind as I practiced this reverse form of narcolepsy. One thought in particular was a question I posed to myself. What is my muse? What is my inspiration for creating art, more specifically, my favorite form of art, comics? I rifled through my comic strips this morning, most of which have yet to be posted, and saw three running themes - misery, anger, and love. These emotions seem to be the motivation for a majority of my stories. By no means does any emotion hold precedence over the other. However, I noticed a common recipe for each strip.
Generally, there is a particular misery. For example, let's examine the first two strips that I have posted on this site. My misery, as the victim, or protagonist, in each strip, is that I am inudated with a complete disregard for human emotions by the antagonist. This antagonist creates the misery of the protagonist, because I cannot alter the actions or course of behavior of the antagonist. In my first strip, unlike my second which offers a more direct approach as the protagonist reacts with rage at Mr. Head, the victim does nothing to counteract the antagonist's rage. However, as I am able to assume the second role of narrator, I add cynical prose to force the audience to relate to the victim and not to Mr. Head. An example of the narrator counteracting the antagonist's rage is in the following passage where Mr. Head berates the sales associate, "Furthermore, if I needed any help I would have found you! Also, if I couldn't have found you I would have bitched and moaned about not being helped!" I know in the strip it is very straight-forward, the antagonist doesn't truly know what he wants even though he claims to know what he wants. However, by assuming that my muses are misery, anger, and love, it is difficult to find my muses in each story. Love is even more tricky to find in each strip, which is becasue it is included in the creation of each strip. In both strips, the victim puts himself into positions where his dignity can be compromised - customer service. If the narrator did not love his ability to create these situations and share them with his audience then he would not, in his everyday life, put himself into situations where one of he was able to interact with his other muses, misery and anger. In summation, the three muses, misery, anger, and love, create an endless circle. This circle, at least in the first two strips, is created by misery, which is followed by anger as a defense mechanism - whether literally or not, and then finished with the narrator's ability to meditate about such situations by allowing his love and passion for creating comics to take flight.