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Tales Of An 'Mazing Girl
Tales of Mazing girl is about Sarah Jennings a LA based prop designer who works on cable TV. Shes a comicbok fan who paints Warhammer figurines in her spare time. She is plump drinks And is a perhaps a tad iresponsible. She is also the most powerful superhero in the city. A Flying brick of Awesomeness.
Each story is self contained story of her life-Going to comicbook conventions, casual hookups, cleaning parties, working with actors from the show Firefly,fighting supervillans and rescuing kittens. Its not really a normal life but its hers.
Its a little bitt inspired by Muttenchops Superwoman series, but obviously quite a bit diffrent. I like the idea of doing a comicbook style story about a superheroine. I wanted to play around a bit with convention, and make a very traditional heroine, in a slightly untraditional form.
Unlike my previous stories, this is very open ended. There is an ongoing plot and the story does go somewhere, but each tale is by itself. I have written 20 chapters in two arcs so far. Will see where it goes.
I have also started a blog site with just this story as an ongoing form
www.Talesofanmazingirl.blogspot.com.
While the entries are probabbly going to be near identical for the time if you want to take a look at them there.
As always curious for feedback.
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castor wrote: Just in time for San Diego Comiccon(where the story is set) I am posting the first chapter in a new ongoing series i am working on called Tales of An 'Mazing Girl.
Tales of Mazing girl is about Sarah Jennings a LA based prop designer who works on cable TV. Shes a comicbok fan who paints Warhammer figurines in her spare time. She is plump drinks And is a perhaps a tad iresponsible. She is also the most powerful superhero in the city. A Flying brick of Awesomeness.
Each story is self contained story of her life-Going to comicbook conventions, casual hookups, cleaning parties, working with actors from the show Firefly,fighting supervillans and rescuing kittens. Its not really a normal life but its hers.
Its a little bitt inspired by Muttenchops Superwoman series, but obviously quite a bit diffrent. I like the idea of doing a comicbook style story about a superheroine. I wanted to play around a bit with convention, and make a very traditional heroine, in a slightly untraditional form.
Unlike my previous stories, this is very open ended. There is an ongoing plot and the story does go somewhere, but each tale is by itself. I have written 20 chapters in two arcs so far. Will see where it goes.
I have also started a blog site with just this story as an ongoing form
www.Talesofanmazingirl.blogspot.com.
While the entries are probabbly going to be near identical for the time if you want to take a look at them there.
As always curious for feedback.
Castor
I've only gave this story a cursory look while putting it online, but I like where it's going.
Personally, I've only two problems:
1) 'Mazing Girl sound like an incredibly 90s codename, which is something of a turn-down for me
2) I was working on a character with something of a similar premise (plumpy geek girl), so I'm kind of irked to see that you beat me on this one (although you're 100 times a faster writer than me)
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paulwitz wrote: Anon, you could make your girl skinny and of average intelligence but with superpowers way beyond her appearance and give her some quirky habits that only she has. Such as, interfering with the many dictators of the world who just make life miserable for their own people and the outside world in general. Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Cambodia, North Korea, Drug Lords and Cartels (taking their money and giving it to charity, after destroying their drug production), the Mafia gangs, modern day pirates, etc. Good luck.
That will be very far from the character I have in mind. Also she's a character in a much bigger story, changing it so radically will make a lot of other characters inconsistent, but I'll think about it.
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Anon wrote:
castor wrote: I've only gave this story a cursory look while putting it online, but I like where it's going.
Personally, I've only two problems:
1) 'Mazing Girl sound like an incredibly 90s codename, which is something of a turn-down for me
2) I was working on a character with something of a similar premise (plumpy geek girl), so I'm kind of irked to see that you beat me on this one (although you're 100 times a faster writer than me)
Well
1. I was going for something like out of an indie comic like Love and Rockets or the ilk, but 90s codename-sure why not.
2. More the marrier:) As been observed the average size of women in america is 14. I be willing to be the average size of women who appear on this site-0 maybe:)
(though for the record mazing girls probabbly about an 8)
I do look forward to reading the story though. There are dozens of Geek male superheros but i thought it would be fun to make a nerdy female- intrested to see what other people do with the idea.
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Dru1076 wrote: I wonder if one of our learned administrators could see their way clear to including a link to Castor's blog on the list in the main page...it may seem a bit early on, but I assure you there's more of this 'Mazing story yet to come. And having a crystal ball advantage on this, I'm pretty sure members are gonna like it.
done, it's under blogs.
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Cheers, mate...
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www1969 wrote: These are lovely stories and I'm looking forward to more, but I'm confused about what I guess is a very minor issue. Why is she 'Mazing, and not simply "Amazing Girl"? Is that apostrophe important for some reason? Are we avoiding copyright issues or something? Grammatically, "Tales of An 'Mazing Girl" is awfully awkward, if not simply wrong. It's very likely that I'm just missing something, but it feels weird to me.
Glad for good coments.
I wanted the story to have a kind of post modern feel. A kind of suggestionio of a classic character with a bit of anedge. Amazing is the clasic-"'" is the edge. i like the name myself. It does evoke the classic superhero comic 'mazing man which is a fun read if you can find it.
That said it should probabbly be adventures of a 'mazing girl, as oposed to adventures of an 'mazing girl"
If people feel strongly i should go with 'a' instead of 'an' i can change it.
For those curious i want to release 1 or 2 stories a week-for awhile. I have written 25 so far. One of them is christmas based, but will see how well response goes and how long i can keep it up.
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I guess I figured that you pronounced the M by itself: M-azing Girl ? If that is so, "an" still works. (Think about how "hour" has "an" in front of it.)
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I'm the one that brought it up, and believe me, I don't feel strongly about it. You've already committed to this spelling on your blog, I don't think it's worth changing. And I appreciate your candor ("castor candor"?) about the reasons for the spelling.castor wrote: If people feel strongly i should go with 'a' instead of 'an' i can change it.
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Dru1076 wrote: As Castor's proof-reader, I should weigh-in on an vs a. Don't forget why that apostrophe dangles in front of 'Mazing...its there for a reason. It's standing in for that missing 'a', and that is why 'mazing gets an 'an', becasue technically, it still starts with a vowel...
Well, if you want to get into a grammatical debate about it, this simply isn't right. The point of an apostrophe is that you've removed a letter that you're no longer using, and the point of using 'an' instead of 'a' is the flow of the spoken word. When you're trying to get through a labyrinth, you don't try to solve "an maze". If we're not going to say the 'A', for all the good and valid reasons that castor offered, then we do not need the 'an'.
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www1969 wrote:
Well, if you want to get into a grammatical debate about it, this simply isn't right. The point of an apostrophe is that you've removed a letter that you're no longer using, and the point of using 'an' instead of 'a' is the flow of the spoken word. When you're trying to get through a labyrinth, you don't try to solve "an maze". If we're not going to say the 'A', for all the good and valid reasons that castor offered, then we do not need the 'an'.
I don't want to debate something like this. Let's just agree to disagree. As the author, Castor has final cut, and I'll stand by whatever decision he makes.
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I love the idea. Great job. It's nice to see some original thoughts on the genre.
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Daphne wrote: Castor,
I love the idea. Great job. It's nice to see some original thoughts on the genre.
Thanks. Hope you like the new chapter i posted today.
Always looking for feedback and hope more people comment on the stories.
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It also features burning buildings, Drug overdoes, a villain named Kraygen, metal doors as Shields and Omelet breakfasts.
To discuss the story a bit I'll do a spoiler section:
Those who have followed my writing can probably have predicted the big thing-yeah 'Mazing Girl is a romance,. There has been a purposefully very slow build on the plot-line to keep it a bit surprising for when she wakes up in bed with the Flame, but thats what i have been kind of building-the story isn't really so much "This thing changed" but "this attitude change".
I will admit that one of the ideas of the story from the beginning was to explore this idea of two very different superheros in a relationship. Its kind of the idea of say a Batman/Superman Cross over on the basic level. Yet i think a limit in that kind of story-is one has a pretty good idea of who Batman is. Bruce Wayne Etc. By keeping these details as a mystery i thought there is an interesting story. I have tried over a number of stories to make a very powerful, but very human Heroine(i think some have said to a fault). The idea is to push her with some who to her is very alien, and very scary. The one thing i have emphasised is that the Flame is the only character who Mazing girl is actually frightened off(she is more affraid of her then any of her ennemies). Which is perhaps the other element of the story-its a metaphor for what she goes through dating a woman. Or really dating anyone.
Mazing girl is also very much about the difference between what she says and what she does-so she dates a telepath- who is emotionally incredibly distant and hard to read. Its a match made in heaven.
So see how Mazing girl deals with these events! Learn of more of her adventures! Find out if she will defeat the evil mastermind that threatens to destroy LA! with Blimps! and also maybe hold hands in public
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just wanted to say that next week will have arcs big climax- afterwards i am taking a break for a couple of months before starting up the next season of stories maybe in July. hope you enjoy it and have been enjoying this kind of a lark of a tale.
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Know its been a divisive story to some-but well i do think its one of the better things i have written it is a slice of life comedy story, and i have enjoyed creating a story of a life,fragmented, imperfect, with momments of triumpth and despair-even though i knew this ending about when i came up with the third chapter, how its got here and the story of Sarah Jennings been endlessly fascinating to me.
As always a big thanks to Dru for reading and editing it-he really is a legend.
Hope people have liked it and curious what people think.
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