“I’ve always been a pop culture junkie when it comes to comics,” Narcisse said. “I learned to read off of comics. Most people my age, they have this arc where they read comics as a kid, then they grow up and have other interests, and they fall away from it. That part never happened for me. I was always a fan of the medium.”

“It wasn’t until someone like my writing heroes Christopher Priest and Dwayne McDuffie, it wasn’t until I found out that they were Black that I realized, oh, there might be a little space for me,” Narcisse said.