The Shifter, aka Jenny Everywhere, is an open source superhero created after an open call on Grant Morrison fan site and general comics community Barbelith.

She isn’t the first, however. A Russian band of hippies going by the name of the Progressive Political Pornography Party created Octobriana at the end of the sixties, and set her free for anyone to use. Her highest profile appearance was in Bryan Talbot’s The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, but there was an eponymous comic a few years ago (which I tried out for artist on) and this year there was a film ‘Octobriana and the Finger of Lenin’.

via BoingBoing