To offer something a little different,
I’d thought I’d focus today’s review on a Graphic Novel. You see, while other
people’s favorite comic book characters are Spider Man, Iron Man, Super Man or
any other type of man, I am a huge manhua comics fan and my heroes as a kid
were Hero Hua, Ghost Server, Lohan, all of the Oriental Heroes, the Iron
Marshall and the list goes on and on. Name after name of obscure Chinese comic
heroes that to this day remain some of my most prized stories.
I loved the rich narratives,
mature subject matter and beautiful artwork and although it may be a bit
questionable some of what I was reading (think of an assassin that demanded to
eat freshly killed newborn babies), it helped me be the writer I am today, so
it can’t all be bad.
The latest compilation I’ve read
was Volume 3 of the Chinese Hero saga, a translation and adaptation that has some
issues I might take note of simply because it’s different from what I read as a
kid in the original translation of the Blood Sword… and because, quite frankly the name changes from one version to the other
irked me and the translation flows a bit clunkier.
Regardless of those quips,
Chinese Hero Volume 3 still possesses enough Kung Fu extravaganza to make me
further wonder how the movie adaptation could have been so sloppy. I won’t go into
any detail of the plot and will simply invite you to look up Chinese Hero or
the Blood Sword comic books as an option if you want to broaden your reading
horizons and read something that is as beautiful as it is brutal.
Peace, love and maki rolls.
JD
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