Chupacabra

He stepped into the worlds of Marvel and DC, and now he is entering the forests, neighborhoods, protest lines, and ancestral nightmares of Borinquen.

His new third-course comic series, Beast of Morikin, co-creating with his artist Daniel Irizarry, takes one of Latin America's most famous legends, El Chupacabra, and says, why do we stop treating this creature like a late-night tabloid joke? What if it represented something older? What if it remembered every invasion, every broken promise, every blackout, every displacement, and every piece of land sold out from underneath the people? And most importantly, What if the monster was not attacking Puerto Rico, but what if it was actually defending it? See, this book has borrowed as history, as family trauma, political heat, community power, and a protagonist named Loli Flores who comes to the fight carrying a megaphone, righteous anger, and absolutely zero patience for colonial nonsense like most Puerto Ricans.

Tonight, we are digging into Julio's journey, the responsibility of writing across Latino cultures, the creation of Loli, the transformation of Chupacabra, and the scars left by disaster and abandonment.

You watch sometimes folklore, passing roll calls before anybody listens.

So, comic fan, please lock your doors, protect your goats, hide your luxury resort blueprints, and whatever you do, do not hold a groundbreaking ceremony near anything with glowing eyes.

Yeah.

But yeah, so I think he was really excited to draw a book and to co-create a book that takes place on the island and that also is, like you said, not just a cultural backdrop, but that's about real issues.

And that's about something that Puerto Ricans have heard their whole lives, you know, El Chupacabras.

He struggled to make out the details of the room.

On one wall sat a row of mounted cryptid heads, Bigfoot, Nessie, a Chupacabra, On another, hologram portraits of Old West brothel girls changed to skeletons as he shuffled past.

One of the waiters put an appetizer plate into his hand.

He was carried along the buffet line, gripping the plate and trying to hold the dog back from scarfing down the scraps that had made their way onto the floor.

I like that they used the new Wendigo that Bobby likes and not the one that you wanted.

They also have an expansion of Chupacabra.

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