Related: Nightwing And Starfire Are Officially A Couple Again In DC Comics However, one thing he cannot deny is that he has the same inevitable family ties as Starfire, whether he realizes it or not. She swaps out bright colors and shiny hair for a more grunge aesthetic and from what she can tell she doesn’t possess her mother’s powers and upbeat charm. In this coming-of-age story, Mandy is the complete opposite of her mother. And unlike Nightstar, Mandy seems to stray as far away from her mother’s legacy as possible. But this is the first time fans have seen the famous alien-turned-father and his offspring in the young adult fiction format.
This isn’t the first child Starfire has spawned in the DC multiverse the most famous of which is probably his daughter Mar’i Grayson, aka Nightstar, whom he had with fellow Teen Titan Nightwing, in a possible future timeline. the only super-powerful family member you have to worry about. Mandy Koriand’r looks nothing like her mother and, aside from the normal teenage dilemmas, feels great pressure to be her daughter, but in a trailer for DC’s upcoming graphic novel, it appears her mother is not.
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.Life can’t be easy for the seemingly powerless teenage daughter of a superhero, and in the case of Starfire’s daughter Mandy in the next I’m not starfire, that seems to be painfully true. Claire seems to like Mandy for being Mandy, not the daughter of Starfire.īut when someone from Starfire's past comes to disrupt Mandy's future, Mandy must finally make a choice: give up before the battle has even begun, or step into the unknown and risk everything. 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. 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. And while Mandy usually avoids spending too much time with her alien mother, she's been particularly quiet as she's keeping one major secret from her: Mandy walked out of her S.A.T. 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. 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. Seventeen-year-old Mandy Koriand'r is not her mother. August 10th 2021… and a better idea of who this person who is not Starfire might be…Mandy, Starfire's daughter, who appears to be a bit of a goth rebel.įrom 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.
Written by Mariko Tamaki and drawn by Yoshi Yoshitani, we now have a date, a description and a cover. I Am Not Starfire was one of the DC YA graphic novels announced back in 2019. Comments Meet Starfire's Gay Goth Daughter Mandy, in I Am Not Starfire YA OGN