Before I dive into this story, here's my pitch:

     At the risk of sounding "afrocentric", I want to explain the purpose of this story.
If you ask the average fiction reader, fantasy reader or even comic book reader to name a Greek god, he/she would give you Zeus, Apollo etc. Name a Roman god, Jupiter, Neptune. I don't know anyone that actually speaks NORSE(lol that was a joke), but anyone can give you Thor, Loki etc. Some will even go further to describe their powers and nature of origins. Ask these same people to name one single African deity, you may get one of two responses. Either a blank look of bewilderment (ie. twilight zone) followed by a moment of awkward silence or "DATS DAT VOODOO, I don't mess with that".
Why are the deities I mentioned, so glorified with amazement and fascination while the african deities are somewhat scorned and veiled in taboo?
Now I dont want to show any disrespect or take away from the more popular immortals. I just want to see ours get equal billing. I think my story has the potential to do just that. If you care to check, I AM SUPERCEDE is not the first story line to make this attempt. DC comics made some valiant attempts aside from the the Milestone series that showcased all Black Superheroes some years ago. They have a long running character called The Panther that seems to get a little closer to the "mysteries", but they seem afraid to cross the threshold. DC did go all in with a group called the Santerians which were introduced in the Daredevil series, but didn't seem to catch on.
I'd like to see my story line take The Dark Knight approach and bring the Orishas to the same level as all the other mystical deities.