Rivera has openly expressed in her tweets that people of color should be ashamed of themselves for dating white people and are doing it "to brag about whiteness" (it's one example of some of her tweets). In her first issue of America, she made America act OuC and break up with Lisa because she wasn't ready to move on to an alternate dimension, where the college was. A stupid reason, because thanks to her powers America could easily have a distant relationship (probably the real reason is because Lisa is a white woman).
why are people bashing the previous series? (non-snark only...)
Its interesting seeing Ramone's aesthetic evolution from her inception in Kelly Thompson's Hawkeye into today's cameo.
It was poorly written, poorly drawn, poorly paced, and poorly edited. Rivera clearly did not know what she was doing and it showed. The dialogue was clunky, and all over the place at times. Writing YA does not translate into writing comics, which is fine but an editor really should have helped her. The first issue was given away for free, I read it and it was atrocious. It was way too focused on style instead of substance, except it wasn't very stylish either.
America's a character with a lot of potential, and that book dropped the ball hard.
Prodigy was also in the Riviera book and he was nowhere near as well written he was in Young Avengers 2 or currently in X-Factor.
Also there was random Twitter speak like "What the holy mensuration".
"Cable was right!"
I pressed the wrong button.
"Cable was right!"
I really enjoyed this first issue!! It's really great that we will get to learn more about America's adoptive family and how the Puerto Rican culture she was raised into influences her (especially considering in her last solo run it just seemed as if she had influences from several latine communities). I also cannot wait to see how her relationship with Ramone progresses!
Finally I was able to read the first issue and I liked it. Seems that the writer has thrown away everything done by Rivera, which is a good thing.
Can't wait to see more and I wonder what is happening to her powers.