La Borinqueña #2 Review: Call Your Ancestors

Writer: Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez /Artist: Will Rosado and Manuel Preitano/ /Somos Arte Bring out the güiros and get the congos! La Borinqueña is back for the sequel familia, and she is not playing games! Especially after teaming up with some of the most badass superheroes in the DC universe! We talking the HEAVY HITTERS, including one famous Amazon, but that’s another review. Since the release of La Borinqueña #1, Miranda-Rodriguez has become an abuela’s favorite nieto in the comic book world, traveling around the country and engaging with the community so much I bet dude wishes he could teleport. It should then come as no surprise that while Issue #1 was 40 pages, Issue #2 comes in at a beautiful 63 and fills us with that delicious Puerto Rican goodness. I won’t lie to you. I struggled with La Borinqueña’s previous outings, because I felt Miranda-Rodriguez was packing this narrative a little too tight, sacrificing character depth for fast-paced storytelling that moved a little too “coincidentally” and unnaturally. While that problem still persists, the move to a longer page length definitely gave this issue a lot more room to breath especially considering that FUEGO ending! Marisol “Mari” Rios De La Luz is caught in the age-old superhero question: Now that I have my superpowers, what are they and how should I use them? Miranda-Rodriguez covers the usual narrative steps but as always flavors them with the Puerto Rican nuance that hits right at the heart of our conflicted i…