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I loved Echo when she was first introduced, but I was slightly worried because I hadn't enjoyed one of Roanhorse's stories that I'd read. Writing prose doesn't necessarily translate to comic writing and one can excel in one but not the other, so I said maybe this would be okay. The speech felt stiff at points, and Echo seemed much more poorly written than when she'd been introduced, partially because that handled her deafness so well, with such care, and it seemed like the 'come out where I can
Intriguing. A deaf woman -- but that plays almost no role in the story, which is great because she's not defined by the disability. A Native woman, stolen from her people and trying to remember and understand -- the resonances are obvious. And plenty of awareness of the problematic politics of the world -- both the real world and this one, with added superpowers.