Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's "Ulysses". His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the "Odyssey". The character's name and some of his personality was inspired by James Joyce's friend Leopold Popper. Popper was a Jew of Bohemian descent who had hired Joyce as an English tutor for his daughter Amalia. Popper managed the company of Popper and Blum and it is believed that Leopold Bloom was invented by taking Popper's first name and Anglicizing
Strong Female Protagonist Strong Female Protagonist Strong Female Protagonist (SFP) is an ongoing superhero webcomic written by Brennan Lee Mulligan and drawn by Molly Ostertag, published online since 2012. "Strong Female Protagonist" describes itself as covering "the adventures of a young middle-class American with super-strength, invincibility and a crippling sense of social injustice". It follows Alison Green, the titular protagonist, as she has retired from her superhero role of "Mega Girl" at the age of 19 in order to focus on her college education, but finds out that this is easier said than done. "Io9", which selected "Strong Female Protagonist" as one of