Submerged #1 Review

Writer: Vita Ayala/ Artist: Lisa Sterle / Vault Comics Secure the bag because I love it when a plan comes together. I also love it when a creative team for a comic brings me something fresh to fangirl about. Submerged, a new comic from one of our favorite comics publishers put together by some of my favorite folks in comics including writer Vita Ayala who pens The Wilds, artist Lisa Sterle (who illustrates Long Lost) and Stelladia, a colorist who has done work on the latest issue of The Wilds. Add Rachel Derring who is a notable letterer in the comics industry. “A Queer & Brown contemporary retelling of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth set in the NYC subway.”-Vita Ayala Elysia Puente is just trying to get home on a night where the weather is getting ready to show its own entire ass. A big storm is on its way there, perhaps the biggest in such a long time and she just wants to get home to possibly Netflix and chill solo dolo. She’s a popular person because her phone keeps blowing up and she learns of a voicemail from her always-in-trouble little brother Angel that she’d rather not even get into tonight. But he’s got bad news. He’s in big trouble. BIG TROUBLE. Somebodies are out looking for him and he’s sure he’s messed up REAL BAD. So off El goes into the night, into the crappy weather and into the subways looking for the lost soul that is her kid brother as she finds she is hot on his tracks. Elysia has no idea wants she’s getting into, truly. She’s desperate, that makes he know…