Awesome Moms of Color in Sci-Fi & Comics

Because let’s face it, your mom is a superhero. Here’s some of the company she keeps!

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Rocket
Rocket from Icon by Dwayne McDuffie

Raquel Ervin had only been a superhero for a short time when she found out that she was pregnant. Still a teenager, she stepped up and decide to have the child and be an awesome mother. She put her heroics on hold for a time in order to raise her son well, but soon returned and kept a beautiful superhero-mom balance. Hardcore. Besides, she named her son Amistad Augustus Ervin.  Awesome.

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Black Superheroines Thunder & Lightning Star in DC Nation Short

DC Nation
DC Nation

DC Superheroines Thunder and Lightning are the focus of a new series of short animated episodes airing on DC Nation’s Saturday animated shorts.

The short mini-episodes center around classic DC superhero Black Lightning and his two daughters Thunder and Lightning. Highlighting the daily details of family living, like sick days and sibling rivalry, the series is more like a family sitcom than a typical superhero action series.  So far, only two shorts have aired, but we’re hoping for more!  And maybe, with enough of a following, it could even get turned into a full-on series… It’s about time we got a Black family superhero sitcom on TV!

The shorts air on Cartoon Network, during DC Nation’s block at 10/9c.

Peep the latest short below, and try not to love it: