ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author is interested in teasing out how representative examples of recent Latin American and Latino science and speculative fiction graphic narrative engage with politics and gender. Latin American and the United States US Latino writers and artists have been responsible for an increasingly rich production of science and speculative fiction graphic narrative in the past decades. Works that employ post-apocalyptic, post-human, or post-historical story worlds tend to explore the relationship between politics and gender in a variety of ways, either problematizing traditional gender roles and expectations or reproducing limiting, sexist representations of both men and women. In the process of creating a "post-Latin America" through their futuristic graphic universes, these writers and artists have the opportunity to tackle gender in new and imaginative ways. In El Arsenal, the possibilities of gender imagination are largely dismissed, as the comic favors normative hyper-masculine male heroes and hyper-sexualized representations of women.
