Agents of Atlas #2

[cyberghostface]

Comments

[arilou_skiff]

"This is me, Silk, just hangin' here, watching. Don't mind me."

Also, who is the girl with the black/white hairdo?

[cyberghostface]

Luna Snow. She's a new character who first appeared in the Marvel Future Fight game.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/02/08/marvels-newest-hero-is-k-pop-star-luna-snow

[silverzeo]

With out Silk there, I could have sworn it was Beast Boy and Raven...

[amaniwolf]

LOL! Thank you, that's what i thought too.

[lieut_kettch]

So am I to guess Amadeus and Delphyne are no longer together?

This book is such trash

[bencomicgraphics]

It's pandering and condescending how they write an Asian line-up, almost bordering on parody.

Disclaimer: I'm Korean.

Re: This book is such trash

[icon_uk]

I'm genuinely curious, in what sense?

The writer, Greg Pak is Korean American, so one would hope he'd have got the basics a little right.

Re: This book is such trash

[bencomicgraphics]

Even a Korean American can pander. The original mini had a scene with everyone eating fried spam and rice.

If Christopher priest wrote a book with all black heroes eating fried chicken and watermelon, does that make it ok?

Re: This book is such trash

[cyberghostface]

There are no racist stereotypes behind Asian people eating spam and rice as there are with black people eating fried chicken and watermelon.

Re: This book is such trash

[bencomicgraphics]

Yes there is. What I'm saying is the book is bland. The characters are all flat and uninteresting and built to pander.

Re: This book is such trash

[cyberghostface]

What’s the racism behind spam and rice?

Re: This book is such trash

[bencomicgraphics]

In the book in question, you have Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese debating if an Asian pear is a Korean pear, a Chinese pear or a Japanese pear. Unless grown in a specific city, even Asians call them asian pears.

Pak was trying to touch on nationalism in Asia being a strong dividing force, which it can be, but the pear example is a gross oversimplification that doesn't even really work in the context that even Asians call them asian pears.

The characters are then in a base raiding the pantry for food and they find only spam and rice and everyone visibly perks up and goes "something we can all agree on".

Asians loving spam is a stereotype, and again, it's just needless pandering and cringy.