The Asian Market is Huge...better if JL if they had an Asian Character?

[Michael Watkins]

I love how you targeted the black character for replacement.

[Bukdiah]

Um, please don't use the word oriental to describe Asian people. They find it offensive

Yeah, I almost forgot what year it was when I heard that lol

[Bukdiah]

I'm of Chinese-American heritage myself, and growing up, the "Asian" DC and Marvel characters generally didn't reflect anything I recognized from my parents' native culture. While this did not offend me, it did nothing to interest or engage me either.

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ABC?! Are you a Mandarin or Cantonese speaker? I wanna learn, but it seems brutal

[Zero Hunter]

You want an asian character how about Striker Z (Daniel Tsang) from the Power Company. He has a good power set and look and is actually from China.

[gwangung]

Moreover, unless the writer himself/herself is of Asian heritage or raised with an Asian heritage, throwing in an Asian character based on non-Asian ideas of what Asians are supposedly like (from an outsider's perspective) results in stereotyping at worst and (for Asians) an inaccurate representation at best. That probably wouldn't help matters.

I'm of Chinese-American heritage myself, and growing up, the "Asian" DC and Marvel characters generally didn't reflect anything I recognized from my parents' native culture. While this did not offend me, it did nothing to interest or engage me either.

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Generally, I consider stereotypes and racist writings to be a failure of craft. You were too lazy to do your homework or do any research to do things right.

That's kinda inexcusable these days. There's the internet. And there are Asian and Asian American creative people you can work with to develop characters.

[stephens2177]

This is your JLC


From new super-man.add dr.light and striker z and it would be awesome

[gwangung]

This is your JLC


From new super-man.add dr.light and striker z and it would be awesome

Now I can just imagine what Dr. Light would say to Kenan....

...though I think she and his mom would get along pretty well....

[stephens2177]

Now I can just imagine what Dr. Light would say to Kenan....

...though I think she and his mom would get along pretty well....

And that's how you make a great comic lol

[SiegePerilous02]

I've been wanting to read New Super-Man, but I'm afraid of getting invested and then it winding up being canceled or something.

[Buried Alien]

Generally, I consider stereotypes and racist writings to be a failure of craft. You were too lazy to do your homework or do any research to do things right.

That's kinda inexcusable these days. There's the internet. And there are Asian and Asian American creative people you can work with to develop characters.

Well, doing research and working with an Asian or Asian-American collaborator would probably mitigate some of the worst problems, but it wouldn't go very far in resolving the fundamental problem, which remains that the writer would be writing a character from a culture about which the writer has only limited, superficial, secondhand knowledge. Really, a writer who wants to credibly write about a character from another culture would need to immerse himself/herself completely within that culture...as many aspect of it as possible, for at least several years. There's a limit to how much a person can understand another culture by reading about it; the person really has to live in it for an extended time to really understand it.

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[Buried Alien]

ABC?! Are you a Mandarin or Cantonese speaker? I wanna learn, but it seems brutal

American-born Chinese. My folks are both ethnic Chinese born and raised in Hong Kong back during the British colonial era.

I'm a Cantonese speaker. It wasn't difficult for me because it was my first language as a child, but I understand it to be quite a struggle for anybody coming into it later in life.

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[Lee Stone]

Taking a moment to appreciate Gene Roddenberry, Peter David and Chris Claremont for their works that involved characters of diverse races and cultures without resorting to stereotype.

[Sutekh]

You want an asian character how about Striker Z (Daniel Tsang) from the Power Company. He has a good power set and look and is actually from China.

Ha, I was a fan of him (and Witchfire and Manhunter, from the Power Company), and had forgotten he was Chinese. Cool character. He was around before it hit big, but seems very much like the sort of hero who'd have an active social media presence.

I'm generally most fond of 'ethnic' characters who don't have powers tied to their culture. Batman, Wolverine, etc. don't have 'white powers,' so I'd prefer for Native American characters (to pick one egregious example) having powers related to totem animals or names like Black Crow or Red Wolf or [Color] [Animal], or for Japanese characters not to have 'rising sun' or 'kamikaze' powers or carry katanas or be ninja or samurai.

Later Legion of Super-Hero additions, mostly from China, included Dragonwing, able to spit fire or acid, Harmonia Li, with control of the four classical western elements (including air, which isn't a classical Chinese element!) and Chemical Kid, with control of chemical reactions, none of them particularly 'Asian' in theme. Marvel similarly has had a few Asian characters who didn't have samurai or ninja or 'rising sun' powers, like Karma, of the New Mutants, Silk, with Spider-Man powers, Amadeus Cho, currently a Hulk, Surge, with speed and electrical powers, or newer character, Nature Girl, with animal and plant communication/control abilities. I like that sort of thing more than Sunfire or Silver Samurai, which feel a little bit on the nose...

[Lightning Rider]

American-born Chinese. My folks are both ethnic Chinese born and raised in Hong Kong back during the British colonial era.

I'm a Cantonese speaker. It wasn't difficult for me because it was my first language as a child, but I understand it to be quite a struggle for anybody coming into it later in life.

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Glad to know this about you Buried.

[Bukdiah]

American-born Chinese. My folks are both ethnic Chinese born and raised in Hong Kong back during the British colonial era.

I'm a Cantonese speaker. It wasn't difficult for me because it was my first language as a child, but I understand it to be quite a struggle for anybody coming into it later in life.

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Word. I'm Laotian but had a lot of Cantonese speaking roomies in college. Made me want to learn. I could only say Happy New Year and "Pretty Girl" and probably random veggies lol.