{"id":194,"date":"2010-06-06T16:13:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T22:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/2010\/06\/06\/agent-s-vs-agent-blue-the-battle-of-the-future\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T16:13:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T22:13:03","slug":"agent-s-vs-agent-blue-the-battle-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/agent-s-vs-agent-blue-the-battle-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent S vs. Agent Blue: The Battle of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Originally posted on May 16, 2010<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastfist.com\/img\/agentsGladiatorsFight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eastfist.com\/img\/agentsFight_teaser.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Eastfist.com - Agent S vs. Agent Blue Gladiators Fight in 5050\" class=\"border\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n  <label>In the year 5050, two gladiators fight.<\/label><\/div>\n<p>The story I&#8217;ve been working on, but will never see the light of day&#8230; 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).<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t it? Of course, the deeper meaning is only one aspect.  There&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I originally introduced the character of Agent S in the UW-Green Bay student newspaper <i>The Fourth Estate<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Originally posted on May 16, 2010<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The story I&#8217;ve been working on, but will never see the light of day&#8230; 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).<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t it? Of course, the deeper meaning is only one aspect.  There&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[113,139,189,537,539,544,1612,1701,1888,2037,2073,2244,2464],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artistic","category-entertainment","tag-agent-s","tag-american","tag-asian","tag-comics","tag-commentary","tag-communism","tag-mccarthism","tag-movie","tag-pen-tonic","tag-propaganda","tag-racism","tag-satire","tag-stereotype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}