New Voices

As a homer for Valiant, I support things I like as Art while recognizing the good a company can do for the media of sequential art in who creates the stories. As a teacher in a rough neighborhood in South LA, I am keenly aware of social inequities that many of my students encounter daily.

One of my favorite characters in the Valiant stable is Amanda McKee, AKA Livewire, a techno-path, or, a powerful telepathic being who can remotely control any electronic device.

The series starts up after the events of a cross-company major event that saw Livewire use her powers to shut down the entire United States. Planes crashed and people died in other ways, and Livewire became Public Enemy No. 1. She loses her powers by the end of the first issue, and regains them after a few issues.

Anyway, I always offered Valiant the benefit of the doubt when it came to why an awesome black woman hadn't helmed her own title---that The Story didn't lead to a Livewire title yet and not because a black woman could carry a title.

Now that have a black woman leading a title written by, in a shocking twist of events, a black woman. Score one for equity in sequential art and Valiant.

Here are the first four issues with the pre-order covers that my LCS orders for me:

Go Vita Ayala!