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It's almost the middle of May and there's snow falling from the sky here in Calgary. And I'm reading a Korean wrestling comic. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm definitely living in interesting times. Oh, and there's that pandemic thing that's going on too.
Jason Royt has a very similar back story to Frank Castle, a.k.a. The Punisher. But instead of becoming a gun-toting vigilante, Jason becomes (I presume) a masked professional wrestler in order to track down the fight-fixing mob that killed his family. Actually, his origin is sort of a reverse Spider-Man, in that the death of his family drives him into wrestling, rather than away from it as was Peter Parker's case.
This is a cool comic. It's a collaboration between a Korean artist and an American writer/translator, and definitely benefits from the two different voices. I see according to the GCD that there were only 3 issues published, and I like to think that the story got a chance to play out. Eastern Comics does not look like it lasted for very long, and I wonder if the late 80s was just slightly too early to catch the wave of interest in comics from East Asia that exploded a few years later.
Not gonna lie, I'm probably going to pick up the rest of this series if I can find it for relatively cheap. The art is very cool and the story is pretty intriguing. The lead detective on the case keeps quoting Shakespeare (having been an actor, according to the back matter), which I love, though I'm not sure The Bard is the right thing to be going back to while trying to comfort/question a man whose family has just been killed.
E is for Eastern
Manhwa in the ring
But three issues later
The bell has its ding.
More to follow.
Further Reading and Related Posts
One of the first essays I wrote in university was on a North Korean comic called Great General Mighty Wing - "Batman vs. Mighty Wing" is the result.
And if you're interested, I've read quite a few non-North American comics for the project.
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