Submission 1 - Monkey Girl: Pawns for Kings

Well, I finally submitted a synopsis paragraph for the Who Wants to Create a Super-Heroine contest. It was a bit tough at the end, way after I'd gotten the main idea written. It's actually surprising that it takes so much to finish something this short, but then again it seems that in writing most of the effort is spent on the last 5%. Anyway, the name of the pitch is Monkey Girl: Pawns for Kings, and while I'm not pinning my hopes and dreams on this contest, I'm still pretty excited about the story. I fully intend to develop the miniseries, and if I can't get it illustrated I'll just write it all prose and work from there. What's also fun about this story is that it's using an older version of the Monkey Girl character I've been fleshing out for a while, so it's got me back in the habit of thinking about her and jotting notes down about her adventures. This sort of stuff I'll use for background info once this story gets rolling, and hopefully I'll get around to telling the back stories in the future. Anyway, check out the synopsis:

Monkey Girl: Pawns for Kings is the story of Kenya Chatmon, alias Monkey Girl, a 19 year-old Chinese girl who was adopted and raised by members of a rural west African tribe. At the age of 13 she began to manifest super powers: communication with any primate or simian, a prehensile tail, and the ability to shape-shift into any species of primate or simian that she has had direct contact with. In the six years since she's gotten her powers, Kenya has fought crime and adventured around Africa and parts of Asia, often with her partner MAL, a genetically engineered "perfect" primate chimera. After the death of MAL at the hands of a super villain, Kenya hung up her tights and decided to go to college in America. On the flight over, she is forced to use her powers to foil an unorthodox hijacking attempt. This puts her in the cross-hairs of a new and dangerous enemy, the Grandmasters, that have been using magic to perpetrate increasingly daring and violent crimes across the USA. With the help of her primate powers, her trusty extending staff, and a mysterious government agent named Crayo K. Sea, Kenya must re-assume her Monkey Girl identity to bring the Grandmasters to justice, before they strike at their largest target: the President of the United States.

Now onto the next pitch. I've got a couple ideas already, such as the Queen of the Mist (sentient fog!), or possibly one of the ridiculously powerful Masters of Matter (psychic control of one of the states of matter). I'll give myself a week to get it done and hopefully I'll have enough time to get one more done.