I had a pretty good pitch to Platinum Studios in 2004 about a young girl who couldn't stand her humdrum family and wished they were dashing like her idols, the superheroes Golden Glove and Maxi-Might.. Lo, on her 13th birthday, she discovers she has superpowers, but her family gets kidnapped by a nefarious supervillain. Frightened and missing them, she realizes she really does love her family for what they are. Unbeknownst to her, their kidnapping has nothing to do with her new powers. It's a strike against Golden Glove and Maxi-Might, who are, in fact, her parents, ergo their ultra-mundane secret identities. She goes to free them, and the family bonds together as superheroes, even though Dinah now accepts them as regular folks.
Not a bad premise, said Lee Nordling, but see, Pixar's working on this film called The Incredibles...
Fun fact: I ended up cribbing the name Maxi-Mighty from myself that same year for Invisible, Inc. as Ulti-Might. According to my notes, I also originally devised The Paradigm and Chickadia as stupid superhero names then threw them into Invisible, Inc. and Paradigm ended up becoming a key figure. Ulti-Might, ehhh, more of a plot device. What's the difference, you ask, especially since Ulti-Might has actually appeared in the first two issues? The difference is I like Paradigm and I know things about Ulti-Might that don't make me sorry to see him go.
Anyway, these were my goofy sketches for Dinah Might.