Super Empowered Women Anthology

sUper empowered Women

Felix Pendleton Carly Cerna-Balanoff Matthew Medoff

Table of Contents

1. Authors......... pg.1 2. Intro......... pg.3 3. Batgirl......... pg.4 4. Cat Woman......... pg.8 5. Ms. Martian......... pg.11 6. Storm......... pg.14 7. Wonder Girl......... pg.18 8. Wonder Woman......... pg.21 9. Editors’ Page......... pg. 25

Authors

Batgirl - Gail Simone was born on July 29th, 1974. She is currently 39 years old. She is an American comic’s writer who has written for the DC titles Wonder Woman and The All-New Atom. She penned Wildstorm’s Gen13 reboot and Welcome to Tranquility, did Birds Of Prey and Secret Six, and is currently on New 52’s Batgirl and The Movement, Dynamite’s Red Sonja, & Dark Horse’s Tomb Raider. Before she made it to mainstream she worked for a newspaper and did a column called “You’ll All Be Sorry”, which was popular and catapulted her to Marvel and eventually DC. Catwoman - Sholly Fisch - The bulk of Sholly Fisch’s career has had him writing for many of DC Comics, most notably The All-New Batman: The Brave And The Bold. In 2011, he was assigned to write back-up features in the recently relaunched Action Comics at the request of series writer Grant Morrison, who was a big fan of Fisch’s Brave and the Bold. Otherwise there is not much information about Fisch.

Ms. Martian - Felica D. Henderson – Felicia was born on April 18th 1961, Felicia’s writing career started with getting into the Warner Bros. Writers Workshop. One of eight children, Felicia was born and raised in Pasadena, California, where she continues to live. Henderson graduated from UCLA with a masters degree in Fine Arts. However, she feels “southern in her soul” due to her mother’s strong Mississippi roots. In addition to her series credits, Felicia has written full-length movies for 20th Century Fox, the Disney Channel, and MTV Films. Henderson continues to teach television drama in the film school at UCLA, while working on her doctoral degree in the school’s Cinema and Media studies program.

Henderson joined in the production of Teen Titans on issue #75 and continued to help write in 12 more issues. She was named as the writer for a static ongoing series for DC comics and is also adapting “Girl Genius” into a movie.

Storm - Brian Wood was born on January 29th, 1972. Brian Wood is an American comic book writer, illustrator, and graphic designer living in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked on Demo, Local, Generation X, DMZ and Supermarket, among other titles. He is the current writer of Star Wars and X-Men. He began writing X-Men on issue number 13.During his comics career, Wood

Authors

held a day job for several years as a staff designer for Rockstar Games, designing for video game franchises such as Grand Theft Auto, Midnight Club, Max Payne, Smuggler’s Run, and Manhunt. He began writing comics in 1997, 5-issue miniseries Channel Zero, published by Image Comics.

WonderGirl - Scott Lobdell – Scott was born in 1963. He didn’t begin to read comics until he was 17 years old, while lying in bed after lung surgery. Later, he went to college to study psychology, but quit two years later when he began to write. While in college, he wrote for the college newspaper and interviewed Marvel editor Al Milgrom. Lobdell started submitting various stories to Marvel, but was systematically rejected by various editors, including Tom DeFalco. Later, DeFalco started editing Marvel Comics Presents (a bi-weekly book) requiring many writers, pencillers and inkers. Lobdell submitted a story about a character from Contest of Champions. Because the characters involved were rather obscure, DeFalco didn’t need to extract approval from other editors, and he decided to give Lobdell a chance. In 2011, Lobdell took on the writing duties for Red Hood and the Outlaws, which debuted as part of DC Comics’ company-wide title relaunch, The New 52.[9] and a new Teen Titans comic starring Red Robin, Superboy, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash and three new characters.[10] On July 19, 2011 Lobdell announced a creator-owned book called Awesome that he was working on in conjunction with Ilias Kyriazis.

Wonderwoman - Brian Azzarello was born on August 11th, 1962, in Cleveland,Ohio. Azzarello’s most notable work is the 100 issue long 100 Bullets with Eduardo Risso. He has also penned the ongoing original title “Loveless,” a tale of post-Civil-War era corruption in the South, Deathblow series for Wildstorm and many DC Comics. He has also written for Marvel/Max. On June 2, 2011, it was announced that he would be writing the new Wonder Woman ongoing series. He also stated that he intends to make Wonder Woman a horror comic book. He is also writing a new series Spaceman at Vertigo. Brian Azzarello first published comics work was “An Undead Evolution”, a text article in Cold Blooded #1 (May 1993) published by Northstar.

Intro

The present comic anthology, “Super Empowered Women” was created to give young women interested in comics empowering female role models.

Female characters are scarce in super hero comics when in comparison to the amount of males. Therefore, we wanted to point out the significant female heroine, and how they important they are. These female characters are diverse and could be role models to a variety of young women with their personality and qualities. The qualities that have were created from their different backgrounds as characters. We hoped that these characters could help instill these characteristics in the young girls and help them succeed in all aspects of life.

The female characters that were selected for the anthology were all super heroine from mainly DC comics with the exception of one coming from Marvel. From DC we selected Bat Girl, Cat Woman, Ms. Martian, Wonder Girl, and Wonder Woman. From Marvel Storm from the X-Men was selected. The characters selected are a variety of ages, races, backgrounds, and personalities. They are different because they are supposed to appeal to all different types of young women. They were chosen because in crucial moments they showed great leadership and the common qualities of perseverance and strength appeared. These women are strong and independent. They never were damsels in distress and had to be saved by men. This was a deciding factor in many of the options because we did not want to relay the message the being saved by men was appropriate, especially with the growing independency of women.

“Super Empowered Women” will feature comics about our super heroine. Each comic will display the women in crucial moments of their series and how their qualities stand out among the rest of the super heroes.

Most characters are on teams, so how they are accepted and perceived by their teammates is important as well. This important because we want the young women to have good social skills so they are society. The objective of this anthology is to give young women the role models that they deserve because so many role models have been laid out for young men.

Enjoy!

Batgirl

In this featured comic, Batgirl has returned to action after she was once paralyzed by Joker and became the Oracle. She has teamed up with an unlikely ally that does not have the same morals as her. She believes she is trying to capture a traumatized man, which believes vampires are real. It is her job to try to save the hostage and stop an innocent death.

Cat Woman

Cat WCat Woman is at a mixer that is holding a banquet for the end of an owner’s era. The company was brought by Bruce Wayne. Cat Woman’s goal is to steal a two formula’s for her employer without getting caught and triggering any alarms.

Ms.Martian Ms. Martian- Ms. Martian is in a mentally weak state of mind when she is being controlled. She fights off the enemy and charges in to save her friends, who are under the ocean looking for an entrance. She gets to her friends in her astro-form and saves some of their lives and continues on to save Raven.

Storm The team of X-Men lead by Storm is on a mission to capture some crazy doctor who is creating more mutants, mainly in their purest form.

When they approach his island they are attacked by their own kind and are forced to hurt them. Colossus finally gets to the doctor, while everyone is outside fighting.

Wonder Girl Wonder Girl- Wonder Girl is on the run from an organization that is trying to capture meta teenagers. While running she is trying to find Red Robin, to ask for his help. In the meantime Red Robin is assembling together a new team of young heroes that are already on the run. While Wonder Girl is undercover Super Boy shows up to confront her.

Wonder Woman Wonder Woman is in the middle of fighting a disowned God, who wants to take over Olympus. Wonder Woman looks like she has her hands full, and could be on the verge of defeat. In the midst of battle, Hera is summoned and the entire wounded are healed and they escape. In order to defeat this monster, Hera asks a huge favor of Wonder Woman.

Editor’s Page Felix Pendleton is a freshman at Florida State University. He interested in becoming and Accounting and Finance major and Entrepreneurship minor and hope to own his own business in the future.

Matthew Medoff is a freshman at Florida State University. He is undecided and is a exploratory major.

In the future he wants to be a high school band director.

Carly Cerna-Belanoff is a freshman at Florida State University. She interested in getting her degree in Communications. With her degree she wants to become an event planner for music festivals.