Linda Park Appreciation 2024

[Agent Z]

Creators: William Messner-Loebs and Greg LaRocque

First appearance: The Flash Vol 2 #28 (July, 1989)



The Flash Vol 2 #28

[Dred]

I do wish Linda got more love. Whenever I see those DC couples focused variants and artwork, it's almost never Wally and Linda despite being one of the strongest romantic pairings in their entire history. And that ends up reflecting even moreso on the fanart.

Fun fact about her, LaRocque modeled her off of his own wife when creating her, who is Fillipino instead of Korean. Linda wasn't supposed to be this long term, major love interest at first so you can take more liberties with minor characters, but I think that shows very heavily in LaRocque's art during WML and Waid's tenure.

[Agent Z]

Fun fact about her, LaRocque modeled her off of his own wife when creating her, who is Fillipino instead of Korean.

Interesting. Do you happen to have a link to that?

Linda wasn't supposed to be this long term, major love interest at first so you can take more liberties with minor characters, but I think that shows very heavily in LaRocque's art during WML and Waid's tenure.

One more thing she has in common with MJ Watson.

[Dred]

Interesting. Do you happen to have a link to that?


One more thing she has in common with MJ Watson.

https://secretidentitiesbook.blogspo...view-greg.html

Honestly I need to take a picture of or archive this, this is gonna be one of those little tidbits lost to history one day once this link rots. LaRocque was very happy with Waid's characterization of her, too, because apparently it matches a Filipina wife lol.

[Agent Z]

https://secretidentitiesbook.blogspo...view-greg.html

Honestly I need to take a picture of or archive this, this is gonna be one of those little tidbits lost to history one day once this link rots. LaRocque was very happy with Waid's characterization of her, too, because apparently it matches a Filipina wife lol.

Thank you.

[Agent Z]

Wally and Linda say "I love you" to each other for the first time.

→The Flash(1987) #83

[Agent Z]

Who would you cast to play Linda in a live action project? For an animated project or game?

[Digifiend]

Probably an unknown. Maybe find a K-Drama star that's fluent in English? Because Linda should be able to speak both English and Korean.

[j9ac9k]

Oh yeah - it's been so long, I forgot she started out as "Asian lady reporter" - which was a thing at the time that popped up in a lot of media. Definitely a subset of "reporters as superhero girlfriends."

[Agent Z]

Oh yeah - it's been so long, I forgot she started out as "Asian lady reporter" - which was a thing at the time that popped up in a lot of media.

Really? Do you mind listing some examples The only other examples of female Asian journalists I can think of are Tricia Takanawa from Family Guy and a nameless reporter from Baby's Day Out. Granted, neither of them debuted in the same decade as Linda and I might have missed them since I wasn't born in 1989.

[j9ac9k]

Really? Do you mind listing some examples The only other examples of female Asian journalists I can think of are Tricia Takanawa from Family Guy and a nameless reporter from Baby's Day Out. Granted, neither of them debuted in the same decade as Linda and I might have missed them since I wasn't born in 1989.

I'm not going to bother listing them as I don't care to educate you, but why do you think Family Guy (a show where 94% of its humor is referencing pop culture) created that character? Because it was a thing.

[Lightning Rider]

Always liked Linda.

[Digifiend]

Really? Do you mind listing some examples The only other examples of female Asian journalists I can think of are Tricia Takanawa from Family Guy and a nameless reporter from Baby's Day Out. Granted, neither of them debuted in the same decade as Linda and I might have missed them since I wasn't born in 1989.

Try reading some early Kon-El comics. Superboy's girlfriend was a reporter called Tana Moon. And yes, she was Asian. She was very similar to Linda, actually (this would be in the mid 90s).