[AlexG]

there are at least two references to Amy's origin in the Savage Dragon comics.  It goes something like this:

Her father was at some war, where he got some genetic desease that he passed to her daugther. Amy was ill all the time. doctor's said she wouldn't live past 13 od 14. One time at the hospital, where she was a frecuent traveller, this guy Jhonny Redbeard appeared. he was some kind of super powered being that could grant any mortal super powers. he offered Amy this chance, and she accepted.

That's how i read it sometime ago. She then joined an evil group called the Nixed Men (a spoof of Byrne's Next Men), fought with Dragon, saw her mistakes, and joind the good guys. The rest is history.

Hope to have clarified something.

Thanks Sir Fasola, I'm very certain it has.  😀

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[AlexG]

So I noticed, nice – but don't you think its a tad on the wide screen side?   😉

Better now?

Yes, most definitely!  😀

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[AlexG]

Who are the tallest bodybuilders?

I found this http://www.tallpeople.org/photos/showgallery.php/cat/3696

but are there some other bodybuilders?

Couldn't really say, the four that came most readily to mind (Lesa Lewis, Thea Bennington, Robin Colman and Nicole Bass) were already on the list.

As sources go, some of the physcial stat info is included with contest data at the Getbig.com Almanac:

http://www.getbig.com/almanac/almanac.htm

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[AlexG]

May not be worth mentioning, but i seen a fairly odd parent episode recently where Timmy wished for everyone to be fat and at the end of the episode he figured if someone ate a healthy snack that they would have enough energy to do something he fed wanda spinach coblar and she got up and flexed tho still fat she had some what of a bicep i thought i was worth a mention so i did.

And then there was also the episode where he wished that his parents were Superheroes – the enhanced version of "Mighty Mom" was uber-buffed-up overall.  😎

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[AlexG]

Just as a side-bar, for those so interested in wishing to improve their education on this subject, pro and con, you should check out the The Grrlz Section / Women's Chemical Warfare forum over on Muscle Mayhem

http://www.musclemayhem.com/forums/

http://www.musclemayhem.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=25

And especially the "Side Effects of Anabolics/Androgens" primer thread started by npcchicka.

http://www.musclemayhem.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3018

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[AlexG]

I don't imagine her original transformation was ever shown?

Not certain if it ever was, though if not, Image Comics probably had plans to do so within the solo title of the Savage She-Dragon, which to the best of my knowledge never got off the ground.   😥

Oh, and great job with the scans, Sir Ze Fly!  😎

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[AlexG]

Dagnamit Alex, now i'm going to have to go back and research her name in my Horseclans books!  Hmmm, now was that Savage Mountains or Billy the Axe?

Had some time last night, her name is Kahndoot – the other prominent Amazonian Moon Maiden, their Chieftainess actually, and Bili's lover/wife is Rahksahnah.  Both are featured throughout the series of books involving Bili of Morguhn –  The Savage Mountains, Death of a Legend, The Witch Goddess,  Bili the Axe and Champion of the Last Battle.

[Side Bar – just for those unfamiliar with Robert Adams works, he would phonically spell place names and persons in order to emphasis the changes to the English (or as the characters would say – Mehruhkhuhn) language 700 years after the Two Day War in the early 21st Century.]

Another author that seems to have a thing for muscular/strong female characters is S.M. Stirling.  In his Draka Trilogy (Marching Through Georgia, Under the Yoke and The Stone Dogs, plus one spin off novel, Drakon), he features the ruling class Draka women as femuscular Amazonians, and some-what Superhuman, if you're speaking of their "New Race" of genetically enhanced offspring.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[AlexG]

Its been many years, so I'd have to re-check my collection of Ken Kelly covers rendered for the Horseclans series (Signet) 1975-1988 by Robert Adams, but I do recall that the author often described his Warrioresses with well-developed femuscular builds, especially those belonging to the Amazonian Moon Maidens.  One in particular, whose name eludes me at the moment, was not only very large size-wise, but stronger then many a male Warrior counterpart.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[AlexG]

Just for you, Sir TPNB . . . some more of Karen Zaremba

http://www.andysgalleries.net/Muscletease/Pics/MT1001.jpg

Sources: AMG-Lite

http://www.amg-lite.com/her_biceps/

http://www.amg-lite.com/muscletease/

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[AlexG]

effigy: n : a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"

So the word itself is merely synonymous with "statue", and has no connotations, positive or negative.

I think DCM solved this quite well, and I'll only add that you don't exactly go around burning marble statues – unless you're after lime for making mortar.  😉

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~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

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