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The Good Asian #1 Review: Save A Table In Awards Season
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Save a table in awards season, because here s a new frontrunner for all your statues.
The Good Asian #1 is a dazzling work of historical fiction may play as cop-aganda, but in every panel, in every detail is a masterwork of craft and shows you a number of details about American history that many might not know. This doesn t rely as deeply on the yellow peril stereotypes as Charlie Chan stories did, and can be a touch didactic in making certain points, but still remains solid storytelling.
Good Asian #1. Credit: Image Comics
While some comics are pure escapism, others can serve as conversation starters. That s certainly the case for
The Good Asian, in which hard-boiled Chinese American detective Edison Hark hunts down a killer in 1936 Chinatown. While he comes from a place of privilege, raised by a white family, Hark s being used as a tool by a racially charged police force to rough up Chinese immigrants. Will he get past his own self-loathing to bring help to his community, or will he be no different from those who cut his checks?
This fictional story is set within a factual period of American history, during the fallout of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and Page Act (1875), which respectively prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers and banned Chinese women from immigrating to the United States. They are the only laws to have ever been signed and implemented that banned all members of a single ethnic group from immigrating to the United States.
April 30, 2021 10:30am
by
Sharareh Drury, Trilby Beresford, Lexy Perez
Paramount Pictures
From A Quiet Place II to Mass Effect Legendary Edition, find out the latest entertainment picks from Heat Vision.
Welcome to Heat Vision Download, a monthly column from The Hollywood Reporter
looking at upcoming movies, TV shows, books and games in the genre space.
From an overload of Star Wars and Marvel offerings (Disney+ s
Bad Batch and Hulu s
M.O.D.O.K. to name a few) to
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition arriving for fans of the sci-fi gaming franchise, May is not holding back. For the comics crew, a new noir by Pornsak Pichetshote titled