Dogfight over Shanghai

[arbre_rieur]

Four pages from The Great Ten #4. This issue's focus character is Immortal Man-In-Darkness, the champion and defender of Shanghai.



Immortal Man-in-Darkness battles Feng Po, the Chinese God of Wind.



The Immortal Man-in-Darkness is Chen Nuo, fighter pilot for the People's Liberation Army Air Force. One year ago, he was summoned to Anshan Airbase to meet a national hero...





He's offered an invitation to join their ranks, which he accepts.

As is explained to him, an alien craft crash-landed in Qinghai province fifteen years ago. The Dragonwing is one of the various products yielded from that craft's reverse-engineering.





Back in the present...




title: great ten, publisher: dc comics, creator: tony bedard, creator: scott mcdaniel, group: great ten

Comments

[proteus_lives]

The perfect communist man. Loyal, obedient and he never questions the state.

[foxhack]

I think that's every country's perfect man.

[toby_wan_kenobi]

Depends on whether you're talking about the government of the country or the ideals of the country- you could argue that the principle behind representative democracies is people who *constantly* question the state. Of course, the actual governments prefer to never be questioned, but that's human nature for you...

[aaron_bourque]

Yeah, Captain America is always obedient and never questions the state--oh wait.

[foxhack]

CAPTAIN AMERICA IS A FILTHY COMMIE

[geoffsebesta]

PRACTICALLY AN OBAMMUNIST

[proteus_lives]

He's too old-school for that!

Cap's a New Deal Democrat!

[jlroberson]

Well, that makes him a fascist, a socialist, a communist and I think a surrealist and a big band, unless I've been misunderstanding what TV tells me. Stop this Nazi jivin' fish!

[zordboy]

And when was the last time he watched a Nascar race or logged onto YouTube anyway? Traitorous bastard.

[halialkers]

Eh....Traditional Chinese culture esteems many of these same virtues, what with Confucius's Four Relationships.....

[ravenous_raven]

there's respect for authority and then there's complete, blind obedience to a thing without questioning it. I've seen the "Asian values" argument before, but times are a-changing and people are leaving flowers at Google's door. *shrugs* it's not "Chinese," or "Asian," it's just "stupid."

[proteus_lives]

This.

[cleome45]

[thumbs up]

[halialkers]

Eh.....I would also note that the Chinese invented the idea of overthrowing government when it fucks up rather badly. That's what the Mandate of Heaven idea was all about. My point was solely that these ideas were not Mao's invention. And unfortunately many people confuse the two.

[halialkers]

I would note that I find Asiatic Despotism to be a tiresome old racist saw, and one of the worst legacies of the Marxists to the West.

[ravenous_raven]

ah, I see, you were just trying to show that those qualities weren't purely "Communist."

[halialkers]

Yes, that was my intention. And they aren't strictly Asian by any means, either. The Asians had the Mandate of Heaven which would have been unthinkable to any version of the West up until the Enlightenment.

[nothingbutcake]

Yes!