Supergirl in the Multiverse: Earth-11

This week we fly into Earth-11, one of the most easily identifiable universes in the DC Multiverse. Earth-11 is the gender swap universe. In short, the boys are girls and the girls are boys, and Supergirl is Superlad. While Earth-11 didn’t come about until the pages of Superman/Batman #23 in 2005, a similar theme of gender swapped DC characters was explored all the way back in 1980 in a Mxyptlk story from Superman #349. Earth-11 has since made quite a few appearances and even had a mini series set in this universe called Multiversity: Teen Justice.

The “Supergirl” of this universe, Superlad, first appeared in Superman/Batman #24 and has not shown up again since. However, in the aforementioned Superman #349 Superman encounters a “male counterpart to Supergirl, my Kryptonian cousin”. While this version is Superboy not Superlad, he bears many similarities to the later iteration. Because this character has such a small amount of story there isn’t much to go on in the way of backstory. Both characters are referred to as the cousin of their respective Superwoman so it can be assumed Superlad shares a similar origin to his Earth-0 counterpart.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork and it depicts Superlad in the foreground flying towards the viewer with his left arm extended. In the background you can see green fields and blue skies and the city of Midvale. The bottom right shows a sign depicting Superboy as he appeared in Superman #349 and text saying “Welcome to Midvale”. A motif in the top right shows Superlad’s S symbol and an 11 on top of it.