The Begining of my work

Samantha's attitude

Sick of You - CAKE

It's all Cake. :) Defiant, outspoken, brash, rude and to the point. 

Viva La Maria. 

By the way - Samantha's real name is Maria Rita Cortez. My own personal joke. I gave her my heritage and my middle name. 

Rita is my name; I took the "OS" out. Usually I go by Rosa but hey, why not Rita. Plus I have a cousin named Rita - oh well. As for Cortez - mmph. I didn't want to use an English last name because that would be a little narcissistic. 

Samantha's power

As for Sam's fire power. That came from Kings of Leon - Pyro. One day I was on my bed listening to the radio creating a couple of sketches until Pyro played in my ear. A verse in the song came up that I couldn't get out of my head, and so that's when I gave Samantha her fire power. I hate the video but I feel the song. Therefore Samantha is a pyro. A talent that she was born with but can never understand. A curse and a blessing or a really cool way to pop a bag of kernels.

Samantha's theme song

Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket

Cake's short skirt song is the many inspiration why I created Samantha James. I wanted her to define a lot of the song because I see myself self in that song. Maybe if not all then some. You realize that Samantha has a long jacket in her comics - where do you think the idea came from. As for skirts, it's more kilts because I find kilts really cool. 

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