SECRET IDENTITIES: The Asian American Superhero Anthology - OFFICIAL TRAILER | Tokyo
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The official trailer of SECRET IDENTITIES: The Asian American Superhero Anthology. Due out in April 2009 from The New Press, the book will feature 26 original stories centered around Asian American Superheroes; stories set in a shadow history of our country, from the opening of the West to the election of the first minority president, and exploring ordinary Asian American life from a decidedly extraordinary perspective. Story/art contributions in the book come from: COMIC BOOK INDUSTRY Greg Pak: (writer of Planet Hulk, World War Hulk, Skaar Son of Hulk) Bernard Chang: (artist on Iron Man and Wonder Woman) Francis Tsai: (artist on Marvel Comics Presents and Heroes for Hire) Greg LaRocque: (artist on Marvel Team Up and The Flash) Sonny Liew: (Vertigos My Faith for Frankie and Images Liquid City Anthology) Kazu Kibuishi: (editor of the Flight anthology) Christine Norrie: (artist on Black Canary Wedding Special and creator of Breaking Up) Tak Toyoshima: (creator of first Asian American strip for United Feature Syndicate: Secret Asian Man) Jerry Ma: (creator of Burn) Cliff Chiang: (artist on Green Arrow/Black Canary for DC Comics) Dustin Nguyen: (artist on Detective Comics for DC Comics) Larry Hama: (writer on G.I. Joe) LITERARY WORLD Jamie Ford: (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet [Ballantine]) Gene Yang: (American Born Chinese [First Second] - National Book Award finalist, Best Book of the Year: Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, School Library Journal, amazon.com, NPR Holiday pick, 2007 Michael L. Printz Award winner) Jeff Yang: (Eastern Standard Time [Houghton Mifflin]; I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action [Ballantine], and Once Upon a Time in China [Atria/Pocket Books]) FILM/TV WORLD Michael Kang: (director of "The Motel" and "West 32nd") Lynn Chen: (actress from "Saving Face" and "Lakeview Terrace") Keiko Agena: (actress from "Gilmore Girls" and "Major Movie Star") Yul Kwon: (winner of "Survivor: Cook Islands") Leonardo Nam: (actor from "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", "He's Just Not That Into You") Sung Kang: (actor from "Die Hard 4", "War", "Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift") Kelly Hu: (actress from "X2: X-Men United" and "The Mummy Returns") Parry Shen: (actor from "Better Luck Tomorrow", "Hatchet" and "The Gene Generation") Dustin Tri Nguyen: (actor from "21 Jump Street" and "Finishing the Game") ... just to new a few. 66 Contributors. 52 Original Heroes. 26 Stories. 1 Book. Check out weekly previews/videos starting Feb 15th at: secretidentities.org - under "News. Parties/organizations interested in hosting a SECRET IDENTITIES book event during the book tour may visit secretidentities.org - under "THE TOUR" Pre-order your copy today at amazon.com.
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@falconx1 Daken doesn't count as an Asian American comic book character because first of all, he is Canadian. Second of all, Daken is the product of Marvel's long standing support of Oriental fetish, which is why Wolverine fucked a Japanese woman to produce Daken while you never see the opposite thing happening in American mainstream comics. Third, Daken is biracial. We're talking about Asians here and Asians only. Lastly, Jubilee doesn't count. Ill explain more on that later since I've ran out
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@LifeFirst There's also Wolverine's son, daken, part Canadian part Japanese...also there was meanstreak for X Men 2099....Jubilee....Ryu Hayabusa (The Ninja Gaiden Chronicles, rumored to have been recently acquired by Marvel), Silver Samurai...that's it for Marvel. Not much Asian Super Heros in DC. But there's also the famous Asians Super Heros turned to white actors by Hollywood (Goku, from DBZ, and Ang, from Avatar)
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Guys, just finished reading this yesterday. I don't usually buy comics but this is WORTH EVERY DOLLAR.
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But still much less represented as white and black charcters. and gay charcters even less.
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Sunfire, ras al guhl , xorn, storm shadow, quick kick, shang chi, sons of tiger, silver samuri, lady deathstirke, yellow claw (very racist tho) female dr light,ballistic,katanna, mantis,golden girl, thunder and lighting, lady shiva, conner hawke green arrow, cassandra cain and many more
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Sunfire is Japanese Atom is Chinese Bruce Wayne is White but lived in Tibet for like 20 years Ras Al Ghul is Tibetan Xorn is Chinese Karate Kid is Japanese ...this is about it I think
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Awesome! I can't wait to buy my copy!!
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looks great guys.. :)