Lately I've been really eager to capture the Simpsons style so this is my second real attempt at it, so what do you guys think?
'WHO IS THIS!?' I bet your asking, well this is Laura Powers the one off character whom was Bart's neighbour, I found this character AWSOME when I was a kid and I think I realised I liked tomboys after watching her episode over and over : B oh what humble orgins!
Last time she made a cameo in the Simpsons was as a background character in the movie shame.
New Kid on the Block was one of my favorite Simpsons episodes. I liked Laura Powers a lot, and I even did a character I modeled after her, but with different hair and with slightly different clothes. As for Laura Powers, I thought she was somewhat cute, for a Simpsons character. I wonder what she'd look like in real life. Needless to say, I liked her outfit. Good work here!
You're right it is a shame. If they couldn't use her an actual lead again in an episode they could have at least placed her as background character much like they did with her mother after her first appearence. Btw Ruth Powers was voiced by Pamela Reed a very well known actress. You might remember her from Kindergarten Cop, or at least I do. As for Sara Gilbert who provided the voice of Laura, at the time she had done the voice she was doing Roseanne, however she left the show after the fifth season to go to College and so that is why she never came back. Since then I know she has had done two sitcoms that had ultimately failed, the Big Bang Theory though she left that show too and is now doing "The Talk".
I know that Pamela Reed was on was on a show called Jericho. I think she was the main character's mother or something, I don't know I didn't watch the show.