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.