rbreade 's review for:

America, Vol. 1: The Life and Times of America Chavez by Gabby Rivera, Joe Quiñones

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I was eager to read Gabby Rivera's take on Marvel's first queer Latinx superhero, America Chavez. Rivera is a novelist, and in places the prose seems to strain for the lyrical swing found in some books. Also, the story is crammed with incident, so much that the story hasn't the room to breathe and let us get to know Chavez and the other characters. In part, this is a baked-in hazard when your title character has the ability to travel to other dimensions--in this collection, the reader is whipped hither and yon--but the writer's job is to make sure this ability doesn't overwhelm the story. Still, I'm sufficiently interested to give this another couple of collections.