Laurel Lakeland/Cobweb
First appeared in Tomorrow Stories #1 in 1999 and was created by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie.
Laurel Lakeland and her sister/lover Clarice were born into a long line of masked adventuresses descended from a 16th-century Incan high-priestess named Lula Lacalan and her handmaiden Cla-Cla-Cla, who managed to produce two daughters through parthenogenesis when all the men of their village were killed by a volcano. Her ancestors were all lesbians, and up until the early 20th century, they engaged in criminal pursuits. This ended when Laurel's great-grandmother, La Toile, got caught up in self-destructive excess. La Toile's partner Clothilde...read more