Written by Kalinda Vazquez
Art by Carlos Gomez
Published by Marvel Comics
What makes someone “family”? Do the stories we tell ourselves define us more than reality? How far do you go to protect the ones you love?
America Chavez is about to find out, whether she wants to or not.
When America wakes up in an unfamiliar place, she’s greeted by the face of her abductor from Issue #2. She may have no idea who they are, but they certainly know her.
They immediately begin pressing her about her memories of the past, claiming to be a part of it.
Naturally, America fights back against the absurd request.
If this person recognizes her as America Chavez, then they know her story.
Everyone does: how she grew up in the Utopian Parallel with her mothers, how they bravely sacrificed themselves to save their dimension, and finally how she fell to earth.
There is no room for her abductor to be who they claim to be. There’s no room for this abductor at all. They simply don’t exist in America’s past.
But this stranger has done their homework looking for their own truth–pawing through discarded documents, talking to long-forgotten witnesses, and piecing things together a little at a time. They know America’s past in more detail than she knows herself and how closely the two of them are connected.
This digging turns up more than just America’s childhood, though. These scraps of information shed light on her mothers’ work in a way that America never dreamed of. Can any of it be true?
Nothing makes sense. This stranger has to be playing her for some larger gain. The details are there, but the cognitive dissonance is simply too much. America knows herself, knows where she comes from and who she is.
If her history isn’t what she believes it to be, where does that leave her? What does that leave her, now and in her future?
And presented with that new information and opportunity, will America continue her mothers’ work?
