“Guardians of Infinity” Highlights Black Latino Pride and Pure Puerto Rican Godliness

February was Black History Month, and if we celebrating Blackness in its entirety then we can’t forget our AfroLatinx peoples. So what we talkin’ ’bout? We talkin’ ’bout all of Black history courtesy of the South Bronx writer and artist Edgardo Miranda-Rodríguez. Miranda-Rodríguez knows how to hold it down for his people. My man gets his first chance to write a comic book for Marvel and he stunts full Boricua (the indigenous name for Puerto Ricans) on errybody, like riding through New York City during the Puerto Rican Day Parade blasting salsa, straight stuntin’. The ancestors put the call in and this man delivered graciously with Guardians of Infinity #3, but who are we kidding, he’s done it before. For this comic we see power team ups taken to a whole ‘nother level under the pen of both Miranda-Rodríguez and Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels, the one and only hip-hop legend and founder of the independent comics publisher Darryl Makes Comics where Miranda-Rodríguez is the Editor-in-Chief. Together, they use The Thing and Groot to tell a story jam packed with shout-outs to their respective heritages, all under the scaffolding of a New York landscape seldom seen in mainstream comics. The story wastes no time in reppin’ the East Coast as the duo end up crash landing right under the Williamsburg Bridge in Manhattan. And if that wasn’t enough, the second page has The Thing making a wardrobe change faster than you can say “It’s Tricky,” rocking the black jacket, fedora, and the classic Ad…