Liberty: The American Girl

The Mutants and Mastermind’s message boards have a section called ‘Roll Call’. The section is for posting character write-ups. Sometimes these are personal characters but more often they are the stats for various characters from comics, TV, and movies (but mostly comics). Years ago, back when M&M was still in first edition I stumbled across a writeup for a character called ‘Liberty: The American Girl’ which was a poser based superhero web comic.

I was interested and bookmarked the site. There were two stories up for this cheesecake-y heroine and I was interested in seeing what developed. In addition, the site had a whole gaming side. There were modified hero clix, character sheets in at least a dozen different superhero systems, and skins for a couple of games. I even used her in my installation of the Sims. Unfortunately, the site was hacked shortly there after and the author (Alan Brzozowski) felt that the effort of putting the site back up was not worth the hassle.

In the time since then, the character of Liberty periodically drifted back into my consciousness. One of those times I went looking and discovered that the site had been stored (at least partially) on the internet archive at archive.org. I saved out what files I could but the two main stories were incomplete. Despite any checking that I did for torrents or rapid-share files hidden out there, it seemed clear that the files were gone.

This most recent time when I went looking, I decided to take a different tactic. Stalk the author. It took a little verifying (despite having such a unique name) to make sure that the person I was looking at was in fact the very same. Mr. Brzozowski had moved on to (some very beautiful) photography and showed no signs of ever resurrecting the character or the site. Figuring that I had little to loose other than getting my email deleted, I sent out an email asking to perhaps get the missing files for my collection. What I received instead was a CD in the mail with a backup of the original site and permission to host it as long as I maintained the original copyright.

Actually no, it wasn’t the original site. It was a cleaned up version of the site. Professionally done to take out the mess of a living site. My guess is that it was used as part of an artist’s portfolio. The information on the world is still there but all of the character sheets and other gaming info as well as the unrelated fan art have all been stripped out. For your convenience I’ve included links to those pages in the internet archive. At some time I hope to write up her M&M 2nd Edition incarnation.

Anyway, it is an honor to be able to host what would otherwise be yet another dead page on the internet. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.

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