With everything that has gone on this week with the release of Avengers: Endgame I would like to talk about my two most favorite comic books from the Marvel Universe and subsequently, my two favorite Avengers. My two favorite comics in the Marvel Universe are definitely Black Panther: An Nation Under Our Feet and SpiderMan Miles Morales. These are my favorite because they are the most popular of comics with the main character being a person of color. I really enjoyed SpiderMan’s Miles Morales a bit more than I did with Black Panther just because I can relate to it a bit better. Miles Morales comes from an African American background as well as a Puerto Rican background. I am not Puerto Rican but I do come from a hispanic background, My parents are both Mexican so I also speak Spanish. I really enjoyed the comic, a troubled teen looking for acceptance of who he has become. Culturally it is very significant, in many hispanic/latino households it is odd to break away from your cultural norm and if you do, you either have the support of your family or you don’t. I had watched the film SpiderMan Into The Universe before reading the comic so I was expecting a lot more but the film did not directly follow the comic. I still really enjoyed the movie and believe it contained some of the most important aspects of Miles. Moving onto Black Panther, I really liked both the comic and the movie but like I said before movies tend to not directly follow the plot of the comic book. I also really like Black Panther because the main character is a person of color and so am I, I’m seeing a pattern of only liking the comics that I can relate to but hey that’s perfectly fine. Although, I am not as familiar with Black Panthers culture I think the movie expressed it a better way then the comic, maybe because it gave more detail about Wakanda and because it is a movie not a comic where it can actually provide a better illustration. I also really like these comics because they express diversity. It is so important to show diversity because you have a larger audience and more people are able to relate to these characters. My whole life I have always been exposed to characters who I could not identify with because they were all lighter than I was and either had blonde or blue eyes when I have brown hair and brown eyes. In this day and age change is long overdue and we are finally witnessing it. We now have Female superheroes and people of color being represented, we are not all white and people need to understand that. We are not being over sensitive we’re just tired of being underrepresented. Popular Culture is now leaning toward representing people of all races and that’s a huge success, we still have a lot to overcome but are surely striving to achieve diversity.