Assuming you’re a young Asian American who isn’t into Tommy Hilfiger or Family Guy, I give you my tips on how to “keep it real”. (more…)
Tag: american
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Agent Blue: Power Suit
The design for the main villain continues… (more…)
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Agent S: The Football Suit
Every superhero needs that power suit. (more…)
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Pen Tonic Comics: British Villain/American Hero Manners
“Pardon me, Batman…” (more…)
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83rd Academy Awards Nominees + My Picks for Winners
Before the advent of CMS like WordPress, one had to manually organize and update single webpages if he didn’t have PHP or other dynamic methods available. Well, now I can post things much easier and so here is my first post of Oscar picks. It seems Roger Ebert wants you believing he doesn’t already know who the winners are and you can win big money if you can guess the winners in a contest hosted by Mubi.com. Anyway, here are some of the nominees and my picks: (more…)
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Agent S vs. Agent Blue: The Battle of the Future
Originally posted on May 16, 2010
The story I’ve been working on, but will never see the light of day… Because no one wants to see a mighty Asian-American superhero. Especially one that wears red and is the good guy. The bad guy wears blue. That would be a first in American story telling (as far as I know).
So some would ask: why not just make your hero wear blue? Well, it would lose a lot of the meaning behind the design of the character and story, wouldn’t it? Of course, the deeper meaning is only one aspect. There’s also action, drama, romance, time-travel, betrayal, explosions, all the makings of a blockbuster. All the while erasing Asian-American stereotypes with stylized stereotypes.



