Supergirl in the Multiverse: Earth-48

This universe I feel is best described by Pariah in the pages of Crisis on Infinite Earths when he says “Such a strange world this one is — unlike most other earths. A cosmic anomaly…No duplicates here.” This of course refers to the fact that this universe doesn’t have a Batman or Superman or Wonder Woman like many of the other universes in the multiverse. This universe (originally called Earth-6 before being re-designated 48 after Convergence) hardly has any heroes actually, only 3 have ever been explored, Lady Quark, Lord Volt, and Princess Fern and up til just a few years ago Lady Quark was the only of the trio to really get any depth to her character. This is of course due to the universe being obliterated in the first Crisis with only Lady Quark surviving.

As mentioned above, this universe doesn’t have any of the heroes from earth-0 which means it doesn’t have a Supergirl. That of course hasn’t stopped me before. Princess Fern, Liana, is the daughter of Lady Quark and Lord Volt and as you may guess she has powers over plants. As we’ve done with other universes (Earths 39, 40, and 41 come to mind) taking the prominent hero of the universe (Lady Quark here) and giving them the “Superman” role would allow for their female descendants to take up the role of “Supergirl”. I mentioned that this universe was rather unexplored until recently, and by that I mean that it was featured rather prominently a few years ago in Harley Quinn (Vol. 4) in the 28-37 range. Here we see Harley looking after the 13 year old Liana as a favor to Lady Quark and Liana is shown as rather headstrong and quick to act but she still isn’t developed very far. The universe is shown to have OMACs (from earth-51?) and also large mountable dalmatians (from earth-17?) which seems odd but probably just the creative team having fun with the multiverse.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Princess Fern is controlling vines and riding on top of them as she travels over the futuristic city on Earth-48. The top right features a yellow square representing Princess Fern with a 48 on top of it.