Gunn's Superman inadvertently maps the persistence of Hollywood's most enduring hierarchy: the sounds of heroism versus the sounds of Otherness or, frankly, evil.

In science fiction shows and films, there is an erasure of brown subjects that renders them as collateral  damage, too incompatible with advanced technology which leads to them doing ‘lesser work’, as well as perpetually "alien". As we look at season 2 and season 3 in Umbrella Academy, we see the concepts of Chicanafuturism and Afrofuturism play out through the stories of Diego and Allison Hargreeves.

Namor’s vision could be described as aqua-pessimism—a fluid, insurgent worldview that interrogates whether the surface world, as it currently exists, is even worthy of inclusion in the inevitable, irrepressible unfolding of Black and Brown futures.

Dan Johnson reviews the comics book issues that make up the Thirteen Origins and the stories of Latinx teens coming into their superpowers!