ABSTRACT
Building on Negron-Muntaner's analysis of Puerto Rican literary heroes, this chapter examines twenty-first century Latinx pop culture texts specifically comic books, which, like Seva, are born in the Puerto Rican diaspora and exemplify hero narratives, in both actual and fictional figurations. However, unlike Seva and its island-centered contemporaries, these two works deploy what author call a "diasporic intersectionality" that not only acknowledges but actually privileges the Puerto Rican migrant experience. The chapter focuses on Wilfred Santiago's 2011 graphic novel about Roberto Clemente's life, the story of Roberto Clemente, and Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez's first 2016 comic in a series focuses on a female superhero named after the Puerto Rican national anthem, La Borinquena. Furthermore, Miranda-Rodriguez represents an Afro-Latina who is a scientist, an environmentalist, someone who, both as a regular person and as a superhero, is working to improve the planet.
