John Tsang says in Facebook Live chat he identifies with tortured superhero Silver Surfer
But he would not be drawn into any cheeky comparisons pegging the character and its all-powerful master, to himself and former boss Leung Chun-ying
John Tsang Chun-wah’s ability to connect with younger Hongkongers in particular was on full display during his Facebook Live interview with the Post yesterday as he chatted about his love of comics and superheroes.
“He is a contradictory type of character,” Tsang said of the alien humanoid who traverses the cosmos on a personal spacecraft the size and shape of a surfboard. “I mean you cannot say that he is like Superman, a totally good guy. There are a lot of conflicts within him – I like that sort of person.”
The Silver Surfer story is one of a powerful but tortured hero, forced to hunt for new worlds to be consumed by his master, the planet-devouring being known as Galactus.
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