Welcome to Graphic Policy’s spotlight on webcomics, where we take a look at one of the many comics available online every Sunday: Webcomics Weekly (but don’t be fooled by the “weekly” part of the title; the feature may happen more or less frequently than that). We’re defining webcomics as any comics published online for free consumption by the general public that doesn’t require a  subscription service.

This week we’re taking a look at [comic’s name], link. The strip is created by Name, who was kind enough to answer a few questions for us about the webcomic below.

Graphic Policy: In a nutshell, can you tell us what the strip’s about?

Amanda Green, SIA is about an insurance agent in a superhero-filled city.  Well, that’s the initial tagline for the comic.  It began in 2012 and has evolved into a comic about regular people living in a world of superheroes.  It follows the title character, Amanda Green, and her friends as they deal with regular supervillain attacks, alien invasions, and literally anything that happens in superhero comics.

GP: How often do you update?

Currently, we update twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

GP: How long have you been producing the strip?

I’ve been producing Amanda Green, SIA since about 2011, debuting in 2012.  I’m the writer, and I pitched the comic to my friend, Marili Ramirez.  She’s a great artist who I’ve known for years prior to then.  We were going to work on a couple other projects before Amanda Green, SIA, but things just never panned out.  But by 2011, we were ready to work together.  Since then, Marili left the comic in 2016, and I worked with MJ Barros next.  Currently, I’m working with Amy King and have a couple amazing artists lined up for future stories.

GP: Where did the idea for the strip come from?

Amanda Green, SIA came out of seeing so much destruction in so many superhero movies and animated series.  Property destruction is a staple in comics, of course, but for some reason, it never really clicked with me on the page.  But with movies and television, all that destruction feels more real, more palpable (and being an adult with property of my own sure adds to that).  If Superman throws a car at a supervillain, well, that’s SOMEBODY’s car.  Now they don’t have a car.  What is that person supposed to do now?  That interested me.  How do regular people go on with their lives after their car or house is smashed by a superhero or supervillain?  What do they do after they’ve been magically turned into dinosaurs (a thing that actually happens in my comic)?  We see so much media about the lives of superheroes, but we rarely see the lives of regular people in that world.

Below you’ll find two examples of the webcomic.

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