TagWeek 9
https://asamnews.com/2019/05/25/marvel-to-launch-team-of-asian-superheroes/
This is the first I’m hearing about this, so this is really exciting for me! I’m very vaguely familiar with Amadeus Cho and even less familiar with Cindy Moon, but these other characters are completely unknown to me. I’ll be interested to see what they do with them, character and plot-wise, or if they’ll be tired old stereotypes. Hopefully not the latter, but sometimes it’s hard to tell if Marvel is genuinely doing stuff like this because they want to and think it’s a good idea, or if they’re trying to get “points” for diversity to stave off backlash (like when they made Captain America secretly Hydra/a Nazi a few years ago and then almost immediately backpedaled because everyone was furious).
Going just by the costumes, none of them look particularly stereotypical, which I suppose is probably a good sign? I have a feeling that this team isn’t going to be very popular just because they’re Asian, so hopefully if that does happen Marvel executives don’t use that as an excuse to not include as much diversity in the future and go back to drawing a bunch of white dudes beating the crap out of each other at the slightest provocation.
Unaccustomed Earth
- Page 4, Ruma’s father seems to have a very distant relationship with her. Is that because he’s only talking through postcards across large distances, or is it because of his grief?
- Page 7, Ruma seems to be struggling with her own grief on top of her responsibilities to her family. She feels like she’s obligated to take care of her father, even if he doesn’t necessarily need it, and it seems like it’s causing a bit of tension.
- Page 14, they apparently wear shoes in the house, which is interesting to me. Ruma says she’d gotten out of the habit of taking her shoes off when she comes in, but that’s not strictly an Asian custom since some people are more comfortable without shoes on inside.
- Page 20, it seems like the Pinocchio marionette’s strings being tangled might wind up being foreshadowing for something? Ruma’s father says that it had “a knot in the center that needed to be undone first.”
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