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Evany Starr & Midnight Penn™ STARRFALL THE starr blog

New Verance City™ is bleeding through time. The past is breaking in. And three people who never asked to be heroes are the only ones who can stop it.

Who??

Midnight Penn – A private conservator and secret heir to an ancient bloodline. Her memories of that legacy have been erased, but when a series of targeted thefts hits her shop, she realizes the city is assembling something catastrophic. She doesn’t chase power; she chases containment.

Evany Rae – A self‑taught engineer and former Coda street vendor. She dreamed of inventing a new sport, but after the Guild rejected her, she kept her prototype bat for protection. By jury‑rigging a broken Vein Core relic into the bat, she created STARR — a reality‑bending weapon that forces ancient magic to obey human engineering.

Emma Rae – Evany’s twin sister. Emma can rebuild her own memories into physical holograms that overlap with the real world. The cost is devastating: the deeper she searches for clues about their missing parents, the more her present‑day memories are violently erased. A faceless stranger haunts her most precious memories, evicting her whenever she gets too close to the truth.

First Sketches of Evany 03'-12' Starrblog #2

4/20/2026

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Earliest Sketches – 2003 / 2004

Before New Verance City, before the Lattice, before the Acolytes — there was a notebook a name and characters that came right out of multiple dreams.

These are the earliest drawings of Evany Rae, in her Red Owls baseball uniform, along with other experimental sketches of her and the bat that would one day become STARR. I was still working with DC on a big Aquaman gig when I drew these in 2003 and 2004, right after I first saw pieces of this story in a dream. The title name Evany Starr and Midnight Penn or a version of it also came to me in that first dream. It was just there, and i remembered to use it. I believe i added Emma as the twin between 2007 and 10'. Evany and Midnight haven’t changed much since the beginning. The world around them has grown.

I only ever shared these sketches once, on MySpace in 2007. After that, the physical art stayed in a drawer and the scans were on my computer.

Now, twenty years later, I’m pulling them out again. Not because they’re perfect — they’re raw, early, unfinished. But because they’re the first footprints of a story that refused to let go.

Welcome to the beginning.

— YGA

Here are the earliest sketches of Evany Rae from 2003-2012

Evany Rae (the Enginner). A pragmatic, self‑taught systems engineer and former low‑level street vendor for the Coda Network. Evany dreamed of inventing a new armored sport, but after the Inventors Guild rejected her designs, she kept her prototype bionic bat for protection. By jury‑rigging a broken Vein Core into the bat, she created STARR — a highly unstable, reality‑bending weapon that forces ancient magic to obey human engineering. Her role: the anchor in the chaos. Where her sister reaches into the past, Evany survives the present. Her vibe: protective, quietly brilliant, and carrying a chip on her shoulder. Evany built a loophole in a system designed only for “chosen ones,” and she’ll use it to keep her family alive.

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I’ve been a comic artist since 1992. This is my first story — born from a dream, lost to corrupted hard drives, but kept alive in sketchbooks from 2003. After a recent rewrite, it’s finally here.
Welcome to New Verance City
- YGA

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