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Cass "Don't Call Me Cashmere" Calloway just wanted to be a successful geneticist. But in her senior year of high school, she was unwittingly mutated into a goat-girl by her self-proclaimed arch-nemesis Morty Montovarius. Now she has to find a way to become human again while dealing with the egomaniac who transformed her, her bouncy half-squirrel brother, her prospective boyfriend slowly changing into a salamander, and a twenty-foot were-poodle. PREMISE In the small midwest town of Genesee Springs, the Jennifer Attic Unassuming-Yet-Ridiculously-Well-Funded Private School for Burgeoning Scientific Minds enrolls the brightest teenage scientists in the country. In lieu of public school, pupils pay a hefty tuition for a lifetime's worth of study and training. This year, the school is proudly hosting its first annual Senior Genetics Competition, where the 12th-grade students majoring in Genetics create a project and compete for the grand prize: A fully-paid scholarship to the university of their choice. (And some serious face time on national news, sure to be a hit on any resume.) Cass is one student competing for the prize. She is dead-set on proving to herself more than anyone that she is capable of unprecedented scientific feats. Unforunately, a slew of bizarre circumstances stands between her and victory, least of which is the fact that one of her competitors has turned her halfway into a goat! As mutation stacks upon mutation and lives are turned upside down, Cass and her fellow students struggle to stay one step ahead of the urgent transformation crises befalling their humble school. GENESIS UTC (Urgent Transformation Crisis) is a product of several ideas all coming together in a rather haphazard fashion. To start with, the series itself has gone through four or five different revamps before becoming what you read on this site. The first idea dealt with a team of shapeshifting humanoids fighting were-related criminal activity. This shifted after a year's time to the premise of a single character fighting other shapeshifters while keeping knowledge of such creatures hidden from the public. After a few test scripts dealing with this idea, I created an "issue 0" which was published in comic format in December 2006. The idea, however, still wasn't working to my satisfaction and, after struggling to write yet another completely different pilot script, I had a brainstorm. I decided to take the series out of a dark, dramatic style and make it a comedy, centering the story around a brother/sister couple with a core cast of very strange characters. Eventually plot elements fell into place and the series became the webcomic that exists today. |
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