Leonard Kirk is a comic artist who has often drawn powerful female
characters. He's known for his realistic figure depictions, and I
think his realistic cloth work is also standout. (When he draws
clothes, they look like clothes.)
I first became aware of him in 1997 when he drew Ultra Girl,
a three-issue Marvel miniseries about a young woman whose modeling
career aspirations are interrupted when she suddenly develops super
powers (and muscles). Kirk drew Supergirl after that, and then
JSA, with lots of smaller projects in between. I think he's
currently drawing Aquaman.
To my knowledge "Lois Lane - Superwoman!" was the first of many times that Superman's Girlfriend® gained his powers. In the story Lois actually only acquires the powers in a dream after suffering a bump on the head, so it's what they call "an imaginary story". (Aren't they all?) But it's fun, anyway, and the artists render her with a bit more robust a physique than normal.
I'm not sure if this issue is available in any published reprints.
Instapundit is musing over a New York Magazine article
that floats the idea of Joss Whedon offering subscriptions to a new
16-episode season of Firefly. The example given specificies one
million customers at $39.99 per subscription, which seems reasonable to
me. Whedon would then have $40 million to produce and distribute
16 episodes, which also seems doable, and subscribers could download
the episodes as they became available.
It seems inevitable that this model of programming distribution will
come to pass, and it seems equally likely that as a result,
niche-targeted programming will become common. There are, after
all, many television shows that earn good money but are cancelled
anyway by TV networks hoping to make a better return not just from
their financial investment but also from the opportunity cost of the
timeslot. A network can only put one show on the air at a time,
after all, so it wants to make sure that the most profitable possible show will be aired.
A good example of a profitable show meeting cancellation would be Cleopatra 2525, which was Sam Raimi's attempt to duplicate his Xena
success with a sci-fi program built on the same strongwoman
motif. The cast consisted of former bodybuilder Victoria
Pratt, amazonic actress Gina Torres (coincidentally also a star of
"Firefly") and athletic beauty Jennifer Sky. The program ran for
two seasons, but never equalled Xena's success. It strikes me
that just among Amaz0ns readers there'd be at least a few hundred who
would be willing, at some future date, to fork over $40 for a season's
worth of programming featuring a trio of physically powerful babes.
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