"Make Me The Perfect Woman!" was birthed from two things:
- The story of Pygmalion in Greek Mythology was about a sculptor who "hated women", but was a worshipper of Aphrodite. He makes her this statue in her image and Aphrodite brings it to life and they live happily ever after. (YUCK!🤢🤮)
- My own personal frustrations with women in past dating. I write it honestly as a personal lesson to myself. Not everytime a woman is coming off aloof is it about us men. Sometimes they have shit going on too and that's okay.
So then I wondered "What if Pygmalion learned a lesson before he got his perfect partner? What if he became the perfect woman before getting her?" and then I wanted my protagonist to not be entitled or an awful man. Just romantically exhausted and capable of learning a lesson in contrast to Darren Farley in the previous issue.
* The stinger/epilogue at the end was also planned since I first wrote the story, but it was a different superhero that would cameo. The timeline of the universe didn't align so it became Secret Agent instead.
