June 9, 2009 | Girl from Mars, contests
I was surfing the net and I found this great time-wasting site where you can design your own comic book super hero. So of course, as Girl from Mars is about comic books, I designed heroes for each of my four friends who make up the core characters at the beginning of Girl from Mars. They’re not quite accurate, but they work quite well as portrayals of the characters as they’d like to see themselves.
So, here’s my heroine: Philomena Desdemona Brown, also known as Fil. Portrayed as a comic book heroine.*
Fil is an artist for long-running British comic book Girl from Mars. She’s about five foot nothing, has short blue hair, and she looks like a boy. She wears paint-spattered jeans and comic book t-shirts and she, and her friends, consider her an honorary guy. She’s always seen herself as a freak; she never fit in with any of the girls that she knew, and her parents are both professors of English literature and spend most of their time in the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. The only thing she’s good at is drawing. So that’s what she does, all the time. In between hanging out with her best friends, Jim, Digger and Stevo.
More than anything, Fil would like to be like the heroine of her comic, Girl from Mars. GfM is a kick-ass space alien who never had a moment’s doubt in her life. She’s smart, green-skinned and gorgeous, and men fall in love with her on sight, only to be scorned. Fil, on the other hand, would probably fall down dead with shock if a good-looking man glanced at her.
Nope, all Fil needs is her three best friends, her job, and Girl from Mars.
And then she meets a good-looking man.
Official publication date is Thursday 11 June, and I’ll be doing a giveaway then, so make sure you come back!
*Don’t ask me what the padded nerf bat is all about. I don’t know.
Kate Johnson says:
Well, there goes my afternoon…
(I’m the Meaty Caped Trigger, BTW, which sounds…um…well, you don’t need me to tell you how it sounds)
Shirley Wells says:
Oh, great. Another time-wasting site.
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Jan Jones says:
Julie, you are so BAD for my self-will.
Julie says:
See, I have this extraordinary smugness because I’ve *already* wasted all my time on that site…
Biddy says:
Tee Hee! I am The Nocturnal Lash
carolc says:
Wish I had some time to waste, but need to leave for the school run. Might log onto the site with DS when I bring him home, bet he’ll love it!
I can also then consider it a bonding activitity or educational rather than ‘time wasting.’
Jan Jones says:
I’m Sergeant Whipped Jones – how’d they know?
(Pic on my blog. It’s awesome. And so me.)
liz says:
Julie – I must have missed this post while traveling!!!!
I should have guessed it was you who found such a fab thing – we have done the whole family!
lx