I love when superheroes/powers meet morality, in this case a Black superhero trying to save the world but still having to deal with racism. Like, yeah, she just saved you, but you’re trying to call the cops on her? I could definitely see even with superhero-villain realities, that racism would still be thriving. *nasally racist’s voice* “I don’t want her, one of the bLaCkS, to save me. I want Superman.” Lemme stop lol.

While I love how adorable Nubia looked, her awkwardness, and her struggles of being a hero in the U.S, I couldn’t always mesh with the storyline. The narrative is not subtle. at. all, but I understand it’s to reach a wider audience. Some scenes just don’t feel like they flow naturally. While there are certainly entitled individuals like Wayland, he felt a bit cartoonish at times. I would certainly believe him typing his garbage on social media, but he would probably do more gaslighting in person.

In the background of the story, a young black boy had recently been murdered, so Nubia’s friend, Quisha organizes a protest.

The peaceful protest gets sabotaged as you would expect by Wayland and his white, entitled diet-frat boy hooligans who think they own the world, and the cops escalate things as you would expect. In addition, another black teen gets shot by the cops

Y’know, this can get very draining (or potentially triggering, I guess) to read, so I’m glad the book acknowledges this in its content warnings. This can be a tender reading experience for some. 

Still, I liked reading this. These new DC comics are really exploring how to make things relevant for today. I hope Nubia gets another book now that we have her origin out of the way.