Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Violent Valentine's Day YANG "Die for Freedom!"

It's the classic love story, Boy Meets Girl...

But, Girl's father is a crime lord who wants Boy dead!
Girl wants to obey Daddy, tries to obey Daddy, but True Love keeps getting in the way...

This story from Charlton's Yang #2 (1974) reinforces a cliche that pan-Asian villains' daughters tend to betray their fathers to save heroes they've fallen for!
Examples: Fu Manchu's daughter Fah Lo Suee / Karamaneh / Lin Tang (depending on the book/movie/tv show) and Nayland Smith.
Yellow Claw's daughter Suwan and Jimmy Woo.
Ra's al Ghul's daughter Talia and The Batman (with whom she had a son, Damian Wayne),

To Be Continued, Soon...

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

YANG "Death in the Desert"

We Have Already Seen...

...normally, I'd synopsize the previous chapter, but the first three pages of the story will conveniently do that for me!

To Be Continued
Next Wednesday!

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Monday, January 22, 2024

YANG "Slave" Conclusion

China!
1890!
Benevolent mandarin Chung Yuan is murdered by assassins sent by the evil warlord Chao Ku.
The mandarin tells his son, Chung Hui, to "...be Yang to all men...the source of rightousness" with his dying breath.
Chung Hiu defeats the assassins and tracks down Chao Ku.
He is about to kill the warlord when a girl distracts him and renders him unconscious with a drug-tipped ring.
The girl is Yin Li, daughter of Chao Ku.
But, unlike her father, she is not evil, and doesn't want Chung Hui dead.
The unconscious man is loaded on a slave ship destined for America where he'll be put to work on a railroad.
When the opportunity arises, the man known to the slavers as Yang breaks free and dives overboard...
This origin story from Charlton's Yang #1 (1973) was written by Joe Gill and illustrated by Warren Sattler, who handled the series' entire 13-issue run.
Yang was popular enough to produce a spin-off series called House of Yang about other Chung family members which was published the months the bi-monthly Yang didn't come out.
So, for a year, there was a Yang-related title every month!

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Sunday, January 14, 2024

YANG "Slave" Part 1

In 1972, the hottest Western on American TV was an "Eastern" called Kung Fu...
...which inspired this very well-done series from Charlton Comics.
But Yang is not your average man!
Be here next week for the conclusion of this startling story and some long-hidden background about the series!
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