 Assisted by several supporting characters, including a side-kick named Trompeto, and utilizing her own athletic fighting ability, Maria has become an established and well respected crime-fighting celebrity in Mexico.Ross was approached by artist Lyndal Ferguson from "Rock 'n' Roll Comics" in the late '80s to create a story for an "all adult" comics anthology he was developing at the time.Ross created a story which featured more toilet humor than anything explicit and introduced a new "sexy" character for the anthology named Chesty Sanchez.