THE WRONG EARTH #4 (Ahoy, 2018) – “The Wrong Earth Chapter Four,” Tom Peyer, Jamal Igle. The irony is that on Facebook, Nnedi Okorafor said that this scene was based on personal experience. He singled out the scene where Future is going through security and a little white girl pulls on her dreadlocks, saying that this would never happen in real life. On YouTube, some Comicgate troll made a video criticizing this comic as racist.
In addition, this is perhaps the first comic book I’ve ever read that includes Nigerian English. I especially like the scene where some green flower-like aliens get out of a plane, and in the next panel, we discover that they’re the size of human feet. It also has really nice art Tana Ford has the rare talent of drawing aliens that really look alien. This comic makes effective use of SF tropes to investigate the topic of immigration. The protagonist, a pregnant woman named Future, is traveling from Lagos to New York, and is also smuggling in a (literal) illegal alien. The basic premise is that Nigeria, and specifically Lagos, has become a gateway to Earth for all kinds of alien species. The only caveat is that it takes place in the same universe as her novels Lagoon and Binti, and I would have had a harder time understanding this comic if I hadn’t read Lagoon. Willow Wilson, has succeeded in making the transition from prose SFF to comics.
This is Nnedi Okorafor’s best comic yet, and it shows that she, like Saladin Ahmed and G. LAGUARDIA #1 (Dark Horse, 2018) – “Homecoming,” Nnedi Okorafor, Tana Ford.
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