Articles by Donna-Lyn Washington

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 […]

Father is a loaded word. For Rai and his older brother Raijin their parent makes for a complex relationship. After the ‘Rai’ miniseries Rai defeated […]

You can’t imagine the sort of grief a goddess has until you see her attempting to plant life in a vast, ever-shifting, otherworldly landscape. The […]

You can’t treat being a hero like a part-time job if you plan to live without the need of artificial life support. Ruby Kaye in […]

An old woman staring straight at you, with a bloodied staff in one hand and a sword in the other, among a mass of dead […]

Octavia Butler was a brilliant writer of science-fiction. Some would argue that her work was the harbinger of Afrofuturism, which is in part a movement […]

There’s this television from the early ’80s called ‘The Greatest American Hero’ where William Katt played a high school teacher, who finds gets an alien […]

The cover of volume one of ‘Tales From the Streets of Guangzhou’ may remind you of a 20th century western. Half-naked women dancing on a […]