Articles by Donna-Lyn Washington

Families are a complicated thing. Poquita the young woman who’s been abused by the parents who stole her as a baby from a detention center, […]

There’s nothing like a comic book cover to pull you in. Issue four of Rai has him full-frontal ready to tackle on whatever anyone has […]

Everyone has that certain someone in their office that seems to relish in causing chaos. For the IT team in ‘Adventures of a System Admin’ […]

The first thing you notice about the graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ by John Jennings and Damian Duffy is […]

People rarely live in the present. Either they are reliving the past in a variety of ways or figuring out what’s the next thing or […]

In an interview author Octavia Butler discussed how she placed her 1979 novel ‘Kindred’ in Baltimore, Maryland instead of the deep-south to emphasize that freedom […]

Reading the third installment of Rai you get the sense that writer Dan Abnett is going to emotionally punch you in the face in every […]

Since the film’s ‘Doctor Strange’ release in 2016 his character and supernatural world in which he inhabits is as entertaining and thought provoking as the […]

One of the promising possibilities about the new year is what’s happening in indie-comics. Greg Anderson Elysee is an award-winning comic-book creator and writer. He […]

Comic books have been one of the few places in 2019 that has openly and unapologetically discussed racism, oppression, the danger of artificial intelligence, demagogues […]

There’s a considerable amount to unpack when it comes to Rai’s behavior in issue two of this hero-titled comic book. The cover suggests a man […]