Author and Locke & Key co-creator Joe Hill appeared Monday on Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote the film adaptation of his novel Horns, and to provide another perspective on a perhaps-misunderstood figure: the Devil.

"I feel like he's got an unfairly bad reputation," he explains. "[...] I feel like the Devil could be right on the Avengers. He's like a superhero: He punishes the bad guys, he's got a cool look -- he's got horns and the red costume. On his very first adventure, he freed two naked prisoners being held in a jungle prison by a megalomaniac, and in the process, he introduces fruit into their diet and sort of taught them about their own sexuality, which I think makes him like a cross between Animal Man and Dr. Ruth. And that's awesome."

It is pretty awesome, especially considering that you hear an Animal Man shoutout on network television about as often as you do ... well, a defense of the Devil.