num_pages: 166
description: From New York Times bestselling author Mariko Tamaki (Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass) and artist Yoshi Yoshitani (Zatanna and the House of Secrets) comes a story about Mandy the daughter of super-famous superhero Starfire and her desperate attempts to get out from under her shadow.Seventeen-year-old Mandy Koriandr is not her mother. Daughter of Starfire and high school outcast Mandy is constantly trying to get out from under the shadow of her bright bubbly scantily clad and famous mother. Dyeing her bright orange hair black and sticking close to her best friend Lincoln Mandy spends her days at school avoiding Teen Titans superfans and trying to hide her feelings for the gorgeous popular and perfect Claire. And while Mandy usually avoids spending too much time with her alien mother shes been particularly quiet as shes keeping one major secret from her: Mandy walked out of her S.A.T.While Mandy continues to tell Lincoln her plans of moving to France to escape the family spotlight and not go to college she secretly hides a fear of not knowing her identity outside of just being the daughter of a superhero and who she will become. But when she is partnered with Claire to work on a school project their friendship develops into something more and a self-confidence unknown to Mandy begins to bloom. Claire seems to like Mandy for being Mandy not the daughter of Starfire.But when someone from Starfires past comes to disrupt Mandys future Mandy must finally make a choice: give up before the battle has even begun or step into the unknown and risk everything. I Am Not Starfire is a story about mother-daughter relationships embracing where you come from while finding your own identity and learning to be unafraid of failing if it was even failing in the first place.
language: English
title: I Am Not Starfire
publisher: DC Comics