The Strange Case of Shang-Chi (Giant-Size Master of Kung-Fu)

[knight_moves]

It's Shang-Chi's birthday! Do you think he'll treat himself and get a cookie cake, or maybe just take the day off and watch a couple movies he's been meaning to get to?











So this is pretty much Shang's plot this story. He gets attacked by assassins, there's a lynched Shang-Chi dummy they show him--it's pretty insensitive of Fu Manchu, to be honest. Good on Shang for cutting them down, but I can't help but think there's gonna be a New Yorker cover over people finding all these lynched Shang-Chis around town.



Meanwhile, Fu Manchu has a yin-only conference table... with a THRONE... and I know people take issue with him being a card-carrying villain instead of a sympathetic antihero who wants his dead wife back? But c'mon. That's great. Ken Adams would be proud.



Meanwhile, Shang fights a... gay American Gladiator. Big swing, I can dig it.

Finally, fed up with the whole thing, Shang goes to confront the Devil Daddy.

Comments

[deh_tommy]

Silent council? For fudges’ sake, Krakoa’s government named themselves after FU-MANCHU? How evil can you get?

[scorntx]

It's okay! It's not evil when a Mutant does it!
(well, maybe the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, but they're just being ironic!)

[thanekos]

There are 40+ years between this story and HoX/PoX, " (Adjective) Council " is not so unique a form of name that one would be necessarily be referencing a previous instance in using it, and you didn't get the Krakoa one's name right (Quiet, not Silent.)

(If Fu Manchu's group here has a proper name, it would clearly be " Council of Seven " - " my silent council " more immediately seems lowercase.)

[deh_tommy]

In this case I was just joking. I know it’s just coincidence, but if I had a nickel and all that.