Teen Justice: To Stop the Star-Conqueress!

**To Stop the Star-Conqueress!** is the first story to feature Jess Chambers and Donald Troy.

## Characters

### Teen Justice

Kid QuickDonald TroyAquagirlRobinKlarienne The Witch GirlSupergirl
### The Justice Guild

* Aquawoman
* Batwoman
* The Flash
* Star Sapphire
* Superwoman
* Zatara

### Other

* DJ Mallory Duncan
* Karter B
* Starro

## Locations

* Earth-11
	+ Gotham City

## Production

Once the story's premise was solidified, author Ivan Cohen and editor Michael McCallister began discussing character ideas. Knowing that they wanted to use magic in the story, Zatarra became an easy pick. However, when figuring out that characters never-before-seen protege, it was decided that the Teen Justice roster needed greater variation, and as a result Klarienne - a gender swapped version of Klarion, the witch boy - was decided on rather than defaulting to a teenage Zatanna.

Other characters, such as Robin, were a bit more complicated to figure out names for. Female "equivalents" for Damian such as Jezebel or Lilith were momentarily considered before deciding they both had sexism baked in when considering other characters with those names. Delilah Kane was also briefly in discussion before deciding that sounded like a character name from *All My Children.* Jokingly, Ivan advocated for calling her "Lucyfer", but ultimately naming her Talia after her Earth-Prime counterparts mother made the most sense.

Wanting to make sure that his Flash analogue was "really different from the rest" of the speedsters that had been introduced over the years, rather than making "just Wally West with curves", it occurred to Ivan that when considering the gender bent nature of Earth-11, some superhero names aren't as gendered as others. “In the DC superhero universe we’ve got a superfast character, Kid Flash. And I thought about how ‘Kid’ can really be any gender.”

According to Cohen, Eleonora Carlini "had free rein" when designing characters. “We gave her a few notes, but she really found a way to make all the characters look cool and different from their mainstream counterparts.” Inspired by David Bowie, Carlini conceptualized the design as an “homage to the quintessential icon who broke down gender boundaries". The jagged lightning bolt that separates the yellow and red of their costume also served as a nod to thgeir non-binary identity, stating “a costume that had a vertical or horizontal division would have defined too much a boundary between two opposites,”

## Gallery

### Line Art

Pg 1 line art by Eleonora CarliniPg 2 line art by Eleonora CarliniPg 4 line art by Eleonora CarliniPg 5 line art by Eleonora Carlini
## External Links

DC's Very Merry Multiverse #1 on DC Universe Infinite

1. ↑ Grunenwald, J. (2020b, November 5). INTERVIEW & PREVIEW: Ivan Cohen talks Teen Justice and the new non-binary Flash of FUTURE STATE. *The Beat*. https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-ivan-cohen-teen-justice-future-state-flash/
2. ↑ McGuire, L. (2020). New Teen Justice Team Debuts In DC’s Very Merry Multiverse. *ScreenRant*. https://screenrant.com/teen-justice-future-state-earth-11-dc/
3. ↑ Avery, D. (2020, November 19). *A nonbinary version of the Flash is joining the Justice League*. NBC News. Retrieved July 27, 2023, from https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/nonbinary-version-flash-joining-justice-league-n1248274
4. ↑ Kim, M. H. (2020, November 25). Kid Quick is the new nonbinary superhero of color coming to DC comics. *Them*. https://www.them.us/story/kid-quick-nonbinary-superhero-of-color-dc-comics