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A review by hobbitfreddie
Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology by Keith Chow, Parry Shen, Jeff Yang
2.0
My actual rating would be 2.5. I like the idea of this anthology, basically Asian American cartoonists telling stories they wanna tell. Also some of stories are loosely connected which is cool! It’s a clever idea for an anthology.
However even though this anthology has a lot of stories none of them really made me go “wow!”. Most of the stories just feel like a miss. Most of them just feel too short. Either they go nowhere or just feel like an intro to the character. Not many of them left an impact.
I think the parts that tackled politics and race were probably the strongest and most interesting. I found the more generic superhero stories weaker and more of the cartoonist showing their cool character.
I don’t usually read comics from the 2000’s. Idk why I just read what I can find usually. This one’s from 2009 iirc, feels very much like something from that era idk how to describe it. Also Obama appears.
I think my favorite stories were probablh Trinity (liked the art style), A Day at CostumeCo (fun story also very much a 2000’s comic), and The Blue Scorpion and Chung (good short story and uses the short length well)
Anyways interesting concept but most of the stories weren’t anything to write home about.
However even though this anthology has a lot of stories none of them really made me go “wow!”. Most of the stories just feel like a miss. Most of them just feel too short. Either they go nowhere or just feel like an intro to the character. Not many of them left an impact.
I think the parts that tackled politics and race were probably the strongest and most interesting. I found the more generic superhero stories weaker and more of the cartoonist showing their cool character.
I don’t usually read comics from the 2000’s. Idk why I just read what I can find usually. This one’s from 2009 iirc, feels very much like something from that era idk how to describe it. Also Obama appears.
I think my favorite stories were probablh Trinity (liked the art style), A Day at CostumeCo (fun story also very much a 2000’s comic), and The Blue Scorpion and Chung (good short story and uses the short length well)
Anyways interesting concept but most of the stories weren’t anything to write home about.