Liz Ohanesian covers counterculture, cosplay, and cool music for the Los Angeles Weekly. She hit Comic-Con with photographer Shannon Cottrell, and came back with some great photo-essays. “I thought you might be interested in seeing our favorite cosplay of the con,” she writes, “they’re The Gender Bent Justice League.” Above, Kit Quinn as Superma’am and Tallest Silver as Batma’am.
Gender Bent Justice League is a group of cosplayers who have taken characters associated with DC’s Justice League and transformed them into something that is more Rule 63 than it is crossplay.
“A couple of us like to do female versions of preexisting male characters. One of our friends, Psykitten Pow, she had a female Flash,” says Tallest Silver, who organized the group and who dresses as Batma’am. “One night, we were all hanging out and I said how funny it would be if we had a whole Justice League with swapped sexes.”