America #3 Review

Writer: Gabby Rivera / Artist: Joe Quinones, Stacy Lee/ Marvel Comics There’s a lot happening for our favorite dimension Crip walker America Chavez (she has no affiliation with the Crips gang but I like to imagine that every so often America Chavez Crip-walks between dimensions just to stunt). We’re seeing America rush off to save her ex from kidnappers, except instead of landing on Planet Maltixa, America finds herself with the 80’s X-Men facing off against the Juggernaut. The majority of this issue is centered around Storm being present to help Chavez hone her abilities. We’re not really getting a sense of why Chavez’s powers have gone to disarray when it comes to jumping to a specific dimension or how these certain people (Peggy Carter in Issue #2, now Storm) in time were aware she would appear and be in need of their help. Plus we got a person watching Chavez from the shadows the entire time. We get a reveal and my bet is it’s an older America Chavez. There’s a lot of Quantum Leap level shit that’s unraveling here story-wise but I think the biggest takeaway from this issue is more about America Chavez’s back story. We learn that she hopped from dimension to dimension fitting in with brown families that accepted her without question, which is a great add-on for this character’s lore as we know her to have become an orphan after losing both of her mothers. Gabby Rivera nails America looking back onto her past in reminiscing or looking at moments in hindsight then further bu…