White Tiger returns in Marvel’s Voices Comunidades special this October

Daniel José Older, Bruno Abdias, Cynthia Pelayo, Moises Hidalgo and more will present two stories starring two versions of the character.

With Hispanic and Latin American Heritage Month coming up this fall, Marvel has announced their annual Voices Comunidades special in October will focus on White Tiger.

White Tiger Reborn will feature stories about both people who have worn the White Tiger costume — Hector Ayala, who died in the pages of Daredevil, and his sister Ava Ayala, the current White Tiger. The two stories in the special starring the Puerto Rican heroes are by writer Daniel José Older and artist Bruno Abdias, and writer Cynthia Pelayo and artist Moises Hidalgo.

“As a Puerto Rican author, it is an honor to make my Marvel Comics debut with White Tiger,” Pelayo said. “I’m grateful to be a part of the experience of new audiences, and old, learning about the legacy of the first Latin American, and Puerto Rican, superhero in the history of American comic books.”

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Top Cow to publish J. Gonzo’s ‘La Mano del Destino’

The collection of Gonzo’s original six-issue miniseries arrives in May.

Here’s one I missed when Image’s solicitations came out for May, but Top Cow reminded me of it with a press release: After self-publishing six issues and crowdfunding a bilingual flipbook, J. Gonzo‘s epic luche libre comic La Mano del Destino will be collected and published by Top Cow in May.

“Top Cow is a place where creative ideas win,” Gonzo said in a press release. “If you look at their current projects, or even their back catalog, there is a rich variety of story types and approaches that is unlike most other publishers or studios. They are less interested in a homogeneity of some house style and truly promote the best, creative ideas. It really is an ‘artist’s company.’”

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