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Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword #2
Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword, Volume 2
The timeless action classic continues! It's been years since Hero lost his son and servant - Sheng Nu to the abyss near the No Shadow School. But unbeknownst to Hero, they have survived, but not without much trepidation and repeated peril. The seemingly villainous Hell's Gate will stop at nothing to grant the dying wish of their deceased leader... to make Hero's young son the new clan leader of the infamous Hell's Gate!
260 pages, Paperback
First published July 11, 2007
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Wing Shing Ma
55 books21 followersWing-shing Ma (b. 16 January 1961) is a Hong Kong wuxia (Chinese swordplay) manhua (Chinese comic book) artist, writer and publisher. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Fung Wan (Storm Riders) and Chinese Hero series. He also contributed illustrations to the "graphic novel" adaptations of Jin Yong's wuxia novel Heaven Sword & Dragon Sabre and Zhang Yimou's wuxia film Hero (2002)
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July 28, 2022
Judging from the synopsis, this is not the same story as the one I’m reading. Same author though.
The comic I am reading is The Blood Sword, a Tony Wong comic released in the 90s.
In this run of issues 6-10 Hero finally escapes the island and they end up in Chicago, where about 5,000 new characters are introduced and quickly killed off in confusing battles where you can’t always tell one character from another.
The main characters don’t have as much of the spotlight, and the comic changes quite a bit. This is a muddy transition and it all feels like it is moving too fast. Our heroes adapt way too quickly to a completely alien culture and are immersed seamlessly into a war between two criminal organizations where guns mysteriously don’t exist.
I think I may be done with the comic for the time being. I enjoyed re-living my experience with issue 7 from childhood and learning more about the characters that captivated me in that single issue. It was a nice trip down memory lane.
The comic I am reading is The Blood Sword, a Tony Wong comic released in the 90s.
In this run of issues 6-10 Hero finally escapes the island and they end up in Chicago, where about 5,000 new characters are introduced and quickly killed off in confusing battles where you can’t always tell one character from another.
The main characters don’t have as much of the spotlight, and the comic changes quite a bit. This is a muddy transition and it all feels like it is moving too fast. Our heroes adapt way too quickly to a completely alien culture and are immersed seamlessly into a war between two criminal organizations where guns mysteriously don’t exist.
I think I may be done with the comic for the time being. I enjoyed re-living my experience with issue 7 from childhood and learning more about the characters that captivated me in that single issue. It was a nice trip down memory lane.
July 31, 2016
This Chinese graphic novel is very enjoyable. It is also a chance to see how other cultures handle comics. The primary differences with this particular graphic novel are that it is light on conversation, and heavy of written explanations on what is going on. Also,sound effects are written out. Another interesting feature is that when the characters perform a martial arts move, the name of that move is written out in the panel. Wing Shing Ma offers a very interesting story with characters to back it up. I'll be looking for more Chinese Hero collections!
May 28, 2022
This was terrible. The other volume after this was slightly better but I literaly was glad when i finished this. Wanted to stop reading so bad.
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