Cheryl Lynn isn't quite sure who she is, but she's pretty sure of what she wants to be. A warrior woman. A bad-ass mamajama. Perhaps an earth goddess extraordinaire. She spends her days abusing keyboards and screaming at computer screens while she waits for her cult following to finally show up.

She changes her mind more often than extras in rap videos change thongs.

Remember: save to your own server, sweets!

Reading SELF Magazine.

Writing To-Do lists.

Hearing Thunder.

Watching General Hospital.

Building Nothing.

Eating Vitamins.

Drinking Iced Tea.

Buying Comic books.

Thinking "It is HOT!"

Playing Episodes from Liberty City.

Adoring Cold water.

Saying Very little.

Abhorring Bigotry.

Feeling Calm.

Hoping To get in gear.

Mythbusters.

The Web #1
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Written by Angela Robinson
Art by Roger Robinson & Hilary Barta
Cover by Stanley Lau



Teen Titans #75
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Written by Felicia D. Henderson
Art by Joe Bennett & Jack Jadson
Cover by Joe Bennett & Jack Jadson

I know that many people wonder why this is a big deal. Why should the hiring of two Black women as writers by DC be of any importance? After all, a writer is a writer is a writer, right? And we've yet to see if either of these women will produce compelling comics.

Well, I'll tell you. This is an enormous step forward, because the hiring of writers Angela Robinson and Felicia D. Henderson by DC and the hiring of writer Marjorie Liu by Marvel show, finally and publicly, in 2009, that women of color have equal access to be considered for writing jobs at the two largest companies in the comic book industry. Women of color in America are finally being allowed to shape humanity's modern myths—the stories and characters that have been handed to us and that we will hand down to future generations.

And that? Is a pretty damn big deal.

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