![]() ![]() "Hawke & Kong" by Greg Pak and Sumit Kumar: 5/5 "Dress Code" by Minh Le and Trung Le Nguyen: 5/5 (this one made me cry tw racism) "Sounds" by Mariko Tamaki and Marcus To: 4.5/5 I was even more excited because some of my favorite creatives were featured like Gene Luen Yang, Mariko Tamaki, and Greg Pak. There are so few Asian superheroes that I'm aware of, let alone from DC. It's a long time coming, but better late than never. So when DC announced that they would be releasing an Own Voices Asian issue of their superheroes, I was elated. I had to imagine myself and my cultures in characters that could pass as us, but I knew in my heart they would never say or act explicitly like someone like me. ![]() The opening letter by Jeff Yang pretty much describes my relationship with comic book superheroes-if I looked closely enough, Bruce Wayne was Bruce Nguyen, Dick Grayson was Dick Wei Shen, and Selina Kyle was Selina Kai-Le. ![]()
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