![]() I picked this up at a book fair for $.50 because the art was pretty good. ![]() I'm looking forward to reading more from Wing Shing Ma. Put simply: Storm Riders is the gateway series for any western readers wanting a dosage of wuxia in a comic book format. In some ways it reminded me of Namco's Tekken videogame series that began in 1994 (and of course its sister game-series: Soul Calibur, 1996): from the array of varied martial artists, to the games' concept of the King of the Iron Fist Tournament (on that note, the gaming industry needs a new fighting game: if any game devs are reading this: please, I beseech you: make a Storm Riders videogame ) ) the wuxia martial arts world), and how it exists behind the façade of the imperial court, almost as if its been deliberately excluded from historical record. I loved the idea of the World Fighting Association standing in for the jianghu (i.e. This is very much the prelude to the series and Cloud and Wind's stories. There's plenty of qinggong acrobatics and flying, swords with fantastic names and powers, mystical entities and prophecies, rivals and adversaries of the jianghu fighting world, and a gruelling duel (taking up the majority of the narrative) between the fathers of Cloud and Wind (central characters in both the manhua & movie). ![]() Chinese manga) tradition Storm Riders being created by Wing Shing Ma in 1989.īeautifully illustrated, the first 4 issues collected in Storm Riders Vol.1 checks off many of the wuxia tropes. ![]() This was a film adapted from the Chinese manhua (i.e. Storm Riders' notoriety in the west stems largely from the 1998 movie directed by Andrew Lau. ![]()
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