God Bless Diversity, God Bless Change, And God Bless America Chavez

“Time to remove doubts and think about it, there’s two sculptors named Gutzon and Lincoln who carved dead president heads who got paid dead president heads by the president to move a mountain”-Royce Da 5’9 When your favorite comic book character finally gets their own series, it’s a hard feeling to describe. Imagine it’s like watching wrasslin’ and your fave finally gets a shot at the WWF heavyweight championship. They’ve crawled, clawed, and fought for years and finally they get their moment. They get their time in the sun. We’re in an age where there are mad Deadpool or Spider-Man books plus Spider-Family related books (DC does the same with Bats and Supes) because you know that’s money. However, when an underrated fave get a shot at a championship? When they finally get their due? It’s a special moment where seeing your hope in this character hasn’t gone overlooked. Come March 2017 we’re gonna see fan favorite America Chavez run out into the royal rumble and scrap with the best of’em as her first solo series hits the shelves.

I don’t need to stress to y’all about how we as consumers been wanting to see more diversity in the comics we buying. For those of us that may have grown up Marvel kids *raises hand* they been trying to do right with adding more Brown characters. Which is good… but that’s phase one homie. Phase two is getting more POC / LGBTQA writers telling the stories behind those characters. Which is where the creative team of Gabby Rivera and artist Joe Quinon…