Stories will feature DC Universe characters like Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman, along with Miranda-Rodriguez’s own self-published creation, the Puerto Rican superheroine La Borinqueña. At La Borinqueña’s own website, the talent listed includes comic book writers like Gail Simone, Greg Pak, Reginald Hudlin, and Denys Cowan, artists such as Tony Daniel, Ken Lashley, Bill Sienkiewicz, Yanick Paquette, Gabby Rivera, Will Rosado, Jorge Jimenez, Mike Allred, and Chris Sotomayor, as well as Puerto Rican and Latinx celebrities like Rosario Dawson, Rubén Blades, Javier Muñoz, Sonia Manzano and many more. The Times mentioned a story contributed by novelist Esmeralda Santiago, illustrated by Jon Woodard, about her grandfather and how he lived through a hurricane that hit the island in 1928.
The 192-page book will cost $19.99, and proceeds will go to organizations like El Puente, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit group providing solar-powered lamps, clothing, food and other supplies to Puerto Rico. This is the second charity comic designed to help the people of Puerto Rico, following Lion Forge’s “Puerto Rico Strong,” which was published last week. It is also the second charity anthology in as many years n as many years that DC have contributed to, following the “Love is Love” comic created with IDW to raise money for the families of victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2015.
