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My point with Dr. Strange was about the fluidity of race in illustrated men. by Bronze Age Tiger 03/19/2017, 3:02pm PDT
I had exactly one issue of Master of Kung-Fu, and it was fucking impenetrable. I don't think it even had a fight scene, just twenty pages of pothead fortune cookie warrior wisdom courtesy of Doug Moench. My understanding is that Shang-Chi wasn't 100% a superhero so much as a licensed orientalist pastiche, a bright newspaper yellow Conan the Barbarian or ROM the Space Knight, am I way off base here? Besides, I don't follow the logic of how one martial artist character being Chinese Born Chinese (wasn't he literally Charlie Chan's Numbah One Son or something awesomely offensive like that?) off in his own little easily ignored ghetto of the Marvel Universe ("Honan Province," sounds made-up) precludes Iron Fist from being American Born Whatever The Fuck Mark Dacascos Is. It's not like there's anything explicitly Caucasian in Iron Fist's backstory, he's just part of a pulp tradition of white guys beating miscellaneous guys at their own game dating back to before miscellaneous guys could read, and Rush Hour proved you can put a black guy and a yellow guy on screen together without one of them eating the other, so I say go for it. #MarvelNeedsTimConway
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Iron Fist by Worm 03/18/2017, 12:44pm PDT NEW
    It's so goddamn dumb, the twitter fuck-cunts by Sad Kid 03/18/2017, 9:13pm PDT NEW
        Iron Fist being a white guy was always stupid. by Bronze Age Tiger 03/19/2017, 3:38am PDT NEW
            You guys joke but aren't you fucking sick of the white-guy-goes-to-Asia-comes NT by back-a-kung-fu-master trope? 03/19/2017, 7:54am PDT NEW
                Only when he goes to Asia to learn from another white person. NT by Mischief Maker 03/19/2017, 8:01am PDT NEW
                Not when it's Iron Fist as he and Power Man are cool together. by Sad Kid 03/19/2017, 8:02am PDT NEW
                    My point with Dr. Strange was about the fluidity of race in illustrated men. by Bronze Age Tiger 03/19/2017, 3:02pm PDT NEW
                It's comic book shit so who fucking cares NT by Mysterio 03/19/2017, 8:16am PDT NEW
                    You do, turbonerd! by Harlan Ellison 03/19/2017, 9:24am PDT NEW
                    Hey, that's my line. NT by Forum Nihilist 03/19/2017, 9:44am PDT NEW
                        As I get older I talk more like Ellison NT by PINHEADS! 03/19/2017, 12:39pm PDT NEW
                no it's awesome you fucking pants shitting crybaby NT by Eurotrash 03/19/2017, 9:29am PDT NEW
                    This guy's got the right idea. NT by Donald Kaufman reading Save The Cat 03/19/2017, 9:45am PDT NEW
                How is the trope suddenly better if it's an asian american guy? by Worm 03/19/2017, 2:40pm PDT NEW
                    I bet you thought David Carradine was good in Kung-Fu instead of Bruce Lee NT by Jesus. 03/19/2017, 3:42pm PDT NEW
                        How in does "didn't ruin it" mean I'm jizzing my pants over him? by Worm 03/19/2017, 4:23pm PDT NEW
 
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