DC Comics Introduces Cree Teen Hero Named Equinox!

Last fall, we learned that DC Comics would be canceling JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA and recreating the team and the book itself as JUSTICE LEAGUE CANADA. What was left of the team was going to move its headquarters to Northern Ontario and they were going to be joined by a new Canadian incarnation of Adam Strange, as well as a brand-new Canadian teen hero.

Since then, the new comic book has been renamed JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED. We have learned that the team will consist of Animal Man, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Martian Manhunter, Stargirl, Supergirl, as well as the previously mentioned Adam Strange. They were being pretty cagey about the identity of the new Canadian teen hero, but that finally got released late last week.

Her name is Equinoxand she is a Cree super teen:

Code-named Equinox, Miiyahbin is a 16-year-old from Moose Factory, Ontario, whose power comes from the Earth and changes with the seasons. As revealed in October, the character is inspired in part by Shannen Koostachin, a teenage activist who lobbied the federal government for a new school in Attawapiskat First Nation, on the James Bay Coast. Koostachin died in a car accident in 2010 at the age of 15.

Series creator Jeff Lemire has so far no clarified how exactly her Earth-based powers will manifest or change. Sunny in summer and snowy in the winter? Maybe.