The Archangel Michael’s battle with evil dominates the drawings of these years. The fight always takes place at the top of an electricity pole, though in later drawings they are on top of silos. The Archangel wields various weapons: a scythe, an axe, a sword or a pruning knife. Satan starts out as a rather winsome floppy eared snake-like creature.
By 2006, Satan is a large slug, not in the least winsome. Some drawings show the two fighting, sometimes they’re resting and, just occasionally, it appears that the Archangel has won. In 2003, the year the artist’s wife June died, the series is interrupted by other subjects, both biblical and classical. There is a humorous undercurrent to the drawings but this is always a fight the Archangel intends to win.