Mainstream comic book publishers still have a ways to go when it comes to promoting diversity, but clearly things are headed in the right direction if we're seeing Marvel publish an ongoing superhero comic featuring a queer Latina heroine and helmed by Latinx creators. Nor is America #1 an attempt to tick off some boxes on a checklist and call it day. This issue proves that American Chavez deserves her own series, even with her starring role in The Ultimates 2.
America strives to be a very different comic than The Ultimates 2, even as America's ties to that team are explored in these pages. This series is more about following the Hawkeye mentality - "What America does when she's not saving the world" - though with a more serialized story structure. Here, writer Gabby Rivera and artist Joe Quinones bring America back to terra firma and have her confront a foe more terrifying than any alien or supervillain - college.
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America strives to be a very different comic than The Ultimates 2, even as America's ties to that team are explored in these pages. This series is more about following the Hawkeye mentality - "What America does when she's not saving the world" - though with a more serialized story structure. Here, writer Gabby Rivera and artist Joe Quinones bring America back to terra firma and have her confront a foe more terrifying than any alien or supervillain - college.
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