Hey @nickysoh! Welcome to Tapastic!! :3
I'm C, and I'm 1/3rd of the team that creates a comic called Kamikaze.
We host our own website too, as well as mirroring here on Tapastic. It's a scifi, cyberpunk series with a lot of action and plenty of heart. Our lead character Markesha sprung from my husbands head way back in college. He's always had amazing women around him from his powerful mom, super smart sister, and firecracker of a grandmother, not to mention a whole slew of aunts who kick ass and take names on a regular basis.
While we were in college the world seemed to be really messed up. The simple act of going to college, having a job, supporting yourself and any loved ones you might have...man, it just felt like you had to be a superhero just to get through the day. Our story started out as our lead being a girl from a low income family that took on a scholarship in order to pay for school. The original idea was that the scholarship she landed only worked if she became the worlds first superhero WHILE attending classes passing tests etc.
Over a few years we just tossed the idea back and forth between car rides. It wasn't anything serious until the story started morphing on it's own. We kept trying to shove it in this comedy direction and it kept falling apart. Once we started playing with the idea of Kamikaze being more of a serious thing, then suddenly it just started falling into place.
We love having Markesha as our lead, and better yet, so many others love her too. It's a pretty normal thing for people to stop dead in their tracks when they see our sign. On multiple occassions we've have women come up to us, nearly crying and say, "Oh my god, she looks like me." And that's when I turn into a blubbering ball of tears. >.>;;
Ultimately I think the reason we kept Markesha as she is, is because Kamikaze wouldn't be what it is without her. However, we do a little tongue-in-cheek bit at the beginning of the story with the idea of what would happen should our story ever get sidelined into the 'typical' action hero lead. It...doesn't end well.