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In New Super-Man #8, we meet a very old foe: Ching Lung Has Yang lost his mind?

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What is the problem here?

post the entire issue please

Yang is amazing. Hope this book survives a good while

Holy shit, that's a surprise. Man, i can't wait for these trades to drop.

>When originally offered the chance to write a new, Chinese Superman for DC Comics, writer and MacArthur “genius grant” recipient Gene Luen Yang turned down the opportunity because he felt the series could be a “cultural and political land mine.”

>After changing his mind and becoming the writer on “New Super-Man,” Yang is now set to reintroduce one of DC Comics’ oldest bad guys, who some might say is the embodiment of political incorrectness.

Ching Lung, whose appearance on the cover of the very first issue of Detective Comics back in 1937 predates the first appearance of Superman in 1938, will appear on the final pages of “New Super-Man” No. 8 (available Feb. 8 both in print and digitally).

Ching Lung will go up against Chinese Superman Kong Kenan and the Justice League of China, a group of young teen superheroes that includes the Batman and Wonder Woman of China.

>Ching Lung is considered now to be a “yellow peril villain,” as he was originally designed to fuel the fears some Americans had of the Chinese in the 1930s. So he may be a surprising choice to bring into a series that has embraced diversity and fit into a market trend of taking famous superhero mantles and placing them on new characters of color — even if he’s coming in as an antagonist.

>But Yang, who is Chinese American, said he felt the character fits into DC’s “rebirth” era, which has re-energized DC’s fan base by going back to the characters’ basics, after the polarizing New 52 era of constant reinvention. Yang said the reset approach shouldn’t only apply to the publisher’s good aspects.

>“If Rebirth is about embracing the history of the DC universe, then we do have to go back to the very beginning, right?” Yang told The Post’s Comic Riffs. “If we really want to embrace who we are as Americans, we have to look at both the good and the bad and the pretty and the ugly of our history. If rebirth is about reclaiming a lot of DC’s past, we also have to examine some of the ugly stuff, too. So that’s what we’re hoping to do.”

>What’s also surprising is that the design of Ching Lung in “New Super-Man” almost mirrors his original 1930s design, which may seem offensive to modern eyes (and is very different from the typical style of “New Super-Man” artist Billy Tan). That is intentional. After trying out new, more modern designs, Yang thought it best to go back to the original one.

>“I thought if we redesign Ching Lung, we will actually be introducing a new form of yellow peril. And that is definitely something that I was not interested in doing,” Yang said. “The purpose is not necessarily to kick up old stereotypes as it is to comment on them. My hope is at the end of all of the story line, the entire long arc that deals with Ching Lung, that a reader will be able to see it as both a comment on the past and evidence of how far we’ve come.” (Lung appears on the last page of No. 8, and his story line won’t be revealed until later issues.)

>“We were very thoughtful about [the return of Ching Lung],” Yang said. “I think that the two dominant emotions that I had going into the publication of issue No. 8, is a little bit of fear, I’m worried about how the readers are going to take to it, and the second is, I feel proud. I feel proud of playing a small part in the history of DC Comics and the history of American comics in general.”

>Yang also pointed out that the character shows how far DC Comics has come.


>“DC began with this yellow-peril image,” Yang said. “It’s basically a two-dimensional stereotype that was used to dehumanize an entire people. And now DC has taken its most important symbol, the Superman S, and stuck it on a Chinese character. Now we’re creating this three-dimensional Chinese hero.”

We don't deserve Yang.

You could say he's righting a terrible wong.

More like a terrible WONG! Ahahahahahahhaha

Thanks for taking the time to post the article.

So what is this guy's powers? Being a Jiang-Shi, or is he just a genius crime boss?

>More like a terrible WONG!

HE JUST SAID THAT.

>You could say he's righting a terrible wong.
>a terrible wong.

Based. I like his idea of taking stereotypical old villains and giving them the Rebirth treatment.

Oh boy, this will be fun.
>SJWs will rage over raciest Chinese depiction
>will call Yang raciest
>they find out Yang is Chinese and don't know what to do

I doubt there will really be a SJW call to arms over this, but I can dream.

You imply they care about DC. DC flies under the radar, appealing to its main audience instead of actively struggling with fickle other ones.

>getting pre-outraged over outrage

You could also just not look up SJW bullshit

>they find out Yang is Chinese and don't know what to do

...Pretty sure you can figure it out by looking at his name

Would it matter at this point? I didn't even know until yesterday, that last year someone at Comics Alliance was upset over the implications from bringing back Pre-FP Wally.

That's actually very cool. Then again, I'm a sucker for Golden Age cover homages

I write a JSA fan fiction and I'm trying to make Fang Gow ( dc.wikia.com/wiki/Fang_Gow ) this kind of Fu Manchu criminal mastermind without it seeming racist. I'm very interested to see how Yang pulls it off.

Thats great Yang wants using his original design to be some commentary against values then and "Yellow Peril" But I apologetically love mystical Asian villains. Check out Yellow Claw sometime, hes great. I hope the SJW is subtle enough I can ignore it and enjoy Chiang in a way Yango probably doesnt want me to. Im thrilled to see hm return. Haven't read New Superman, but I will for this.

>DC flies under the radar

How new are you? There's a fucking countdown timer for "Days since DC has done something stupid" that would get turned back for the most minor of shit.

Similar in idea to Orlando bringing back Extrano, but keeping the design is definitely an interesting choice. You know some people won't like that even though it's commentary in itself.

I wonder if he's going to still be from the thirties and is somehow very long lived or if he's going to be more modern.