A Puerto Rican Superhero Shows Resilience on a Post-Maria Island

Her name is Marisol. But you can call her by her superhero name: La Borinqueña.

Named after the Puerto Rican national anthem, the Afro-Latina superhero comes from the creative mind of Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, a writer who lives in Brooklyn. He first introduced her to the world about a year and a half ago, before Hurricane Maria hit. Now in his latest comic anthology, called Ricanstruction: Reminiscing and Rebuilding Puerto Rico (Somos Arte, LLC, 2018), Miranda-Rodriguez shows La Borinqueña helping the island of Puerto Rico in a post-Maria landscape.