THE SAMURAI CHICKS

FUN FACT:

Like with Maxine Wylde, The Samurai Chicks are one of the foundational pillars of Vixen Comics as they were the first superhero team I ever created! I forget the exact day, but I distinctly remember that it was in 2011 in the Middle School cafeteria when a then 13-year-old me created the Chicks by putting pen-to-paper with my primary inspiration being the trailer to 'Sucker Punch' that I saw a few days earlier.

Series Synopsis/Outline for the 1st Issue's plot:

Once upon a time in Ancient Japan, Yoshi Katadadsu - a legendary samurai chosen by Amaterasu herself to stop the Yokai from invading our dimension, was making an epic last stand against Mazoku - the Demon King, who was attempting to bring about the non-Biblical apocalypse!

It wasn't the end thankfully, cause after single-handedly taking out wave after wave of the worst that the 64,000 hell realms had to offer, a tired and bloodied-yet-unwavering Yoshi - at the cost of his own life - defeated the dreadful Daimao, cutting him up into billions of tiny pieces and scatting him to the deepest depths of not just Japanese hell, but every hell and hellish dimension in the multiverse! But because prophesy says that no man can permanently kill Mazoku, he would eventually be back. Even as we speak, he (with the help of his loyal disciples) is slowly reforming, patiently waiting (hyperbolically speaking) for the day when he will be the big bad of a future crossover event mini-series, where he and his forces will once again reek havoc on not only the mortal realm, but also the godspace and even Heaven itself!

With his dying breath, Yoshi split his soul into 5 parts before sending each piece across time & space to the present day and searching the globe to find 5 beautiful-yet-capable young women, who after coming together would make the perfect team of samurai superheroines who - with his teaching & guidance -

are the only ones that can successfully defend - not just humanity - but all of existence from Mazoku as well as all the other malevolent forces primarily tied into Japanese mythology; such as....

Oni

Kaijus

and

Other freaky evil shit that only the Land of the Rising Sun could produce!

These 5 badass bushi babes-to-be are...

SAMANTHA BLAIR from America [Leader]

[Model for Artists: Hailee Steinfeld]

MEI WATANABE from Japan

[Model for Artists: Kaki Haruka]

JASMINE ALMASI from Iran

*Part of her origin story is that she's a Zoroastrian who was in the middle of the street, bleeding to **** alongside her friends and other women who courageously removed their hijabs and joined the revolution against the Islamic Republic when she was chosen.

[Model for Artists: Naomi Scott]

ISABELLA RIVERA from Mexico

[Model for Artists: Camila Cabello]

and

VIKTORIYA ROMANKO from Ukraine

[Model for Artists: Daria Zaritskaya]

It is they - THE SAMURAI CHICKS! who are the only ones standing between us and Japanese Armageddon!

(The costumes they wear are an homage to Emily Browning's Babydoll outfit from 'Sucker Punch')