Marvel Comics Turns To Santeria, Captain America Turns Over In His Grave
10 October 2007, 12:30 PM. By Daniel Mauser
Nerd/brujo alert! The editor-in-chief of Marvel Entertainment Inc, Joe Quesada, isn’t content with Anglo superheroes anymore. So he recently launched a new Latino team of superheros intended to integrate some of that “magical realism” we’re so famous for in literary circles. But this time, he didn’t fuck around with any symbolism. He went straight to the voodoo source:
Quesada says Eleggua and the team he leads, the Santerians, are the first all-Latino comic book team whose powers are derived from the Afro-Caribbean religion of santeria.
So parents, beware of your kids asking for pet chickens.
Marvel’s editor-in-chief takes risk with Latino superhero team [Manilla Bulletin]
The Santerians Website [Santerian]
(1) 
Post Your Comment
Did you know you can now share a link, image or video?
Click to submit your own notas.
Not to be too trite, but will their hideout be a botanica?
Prepare for syncretic blasts of lighting and Hurricane force winds from the “Oya”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oy%C3%A1 blaster
At any rate, it seems that archrival “DC published a comic drawing upon Santeria’s Yoruba forbears in the early 90s.”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orishas_%28DC_Comics%29