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Asian superheroes – assemble!
Marvel Comics is giving ink to an unprecedented team-up of its mightiest Asian and Asian-American heroes, also known as the new Agents of Atlas.

Check out this AGENTS OF ATLAS #1 cover from @carlopagulayan! Recognize those folks along the top of the page? Old school and new school, together at last! pic.twitter.com/4ovvwtNuOX
— Greg Pak (@gregpak) May 23, 2019

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Established icons like martial arts master Shang-Chi and newbies like Wave, a Filipino superhero, will team up in a stand-alone, five-part comic book series starting this summer, the publishing giant told said on Thursday.
The roster of 10 super-powered pan-Asian champions made their debut as a team earlier this month in The War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas.
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That comic book is one piece of an ongoing saga involving several different groups across the Marvel universe, including the Avengers, doing battle with a fire goddess. But the exclusively Asian limited series is set to roll out in August.
The man leading the heroic charge is veteran comic book writer Greg Pak. Pak is credited with ushering in a new era of Asian characters in co-creating Amadeus Cho, a Korean-American genius teen. The character first appeared in 2005. A decade later, he absorbed the Hulk’s powers and started going by the name “Brawn”.
“It’s always been my dream to do a team book using a bunch of Asian and Asian-American heroes,” said Pak, who thinks there’s more appetite for representation with the success of the movie Crazy Rich Asians.

The heat is on this #NCBD! Amadeus Cho and a band of heroes need to put out fires throughout Asia before Muspelheim’s Queen torches all of Midgard! Preview "#WaroftheRealms: New Agents of Atlas" #2, on sale digitally and at your local comic shop today: https://t.co/eJ36P2HpzI pic.twitter.com/5pdtNcQTkz
— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel) May 22, 2019

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‘’There’s literally never been a better time in my memory with more opportunities for doing work that specifically includes Asian and Asian-American characters.”
The decades-old character of Agent Jimmy Woo (portrayed by Randall Park in last year’s Ant-Man and the Wasp movie) leads the pack as head of the revived secret protection society Atlas. Others getting in on the action include Brawn and Cindy Moon, who is the Korean-American Spider-Woman known as Silk.
Other recruits have only previously been seen in Marvel video games or web comics only available in Asian countries. Among them is Korea-born Luna Snow, also known as Seol Hee, a K-pop star who can manipulate frozen elements. There’s also Aero and Sword Master, who originated with creatives in China.
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“That kind of diversity within diversity is amazing,” said Pak, who is half Korean and half white. “No one character here has to represent all Asian-ness or Asian-American-ness. That’s a ridiculous demand for any character.”
The rest of the Atlas creative team includes writer Jeff Parker and artists Nico Leon and Carlo Pagulayan. In the series, the do-gooders find that someone has flipped a switch and created a “cross-Asian portal city” called Pan.
In Pan, Asian neighbourhoods get geographically scrambled and then stitched together into one city. So, the streets of Tokyo could be next to neighbourhoods from Honolulu, Manila and some of Marvel’s fictitious Asian countries.

Due to popular demand, we are going back to press for a 2ND printing of WAR OF THE REALMS: NEW AGENTS OF ATLAS #1 introducing WAVE, the Filipino Marvel super heroine sensation!
Log on to: https://t.co/cfqipt5hhF#MarvelWave #MarvelComics #WarOfTheRealms pic.twitter.com/mScVFNmg9n
— Comic Odyssey (@ComicOdyssey) May 23, 2019

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Filipino American Loren Javier, 50, discusses Marvel comics on his “Castles, Capes & Clones” blog and podcast. There were few Asian characters in the lexicon he could look up to as a child, and many were often stereotypical mystics or manservants.
“I love Marvel but I didn’t necessarily see myself in the comics,” said Javier, who recalls being teased by a classmate who called him “the enemy”.
“Now, finally, I think about kids who are reading this new generation of comics and heroes and getting to see themselves a little bit more,” Javier said. “It’s very powerful.”
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Charlie Kirihara, who is half Japanese and half white, was thrilled by New Agents of Atlas and tweeted at Pak and Marvel pleading for more content.
Kirihara, 26, said it was a welcome change to see characters that represented Asian and American cultures in The War of the Realms.
“I read through the book and realised that was the first time I’ve read a comic book that was all these Asian characters and that wasn’t manga written in Japan,” Kirihara said, referring to a genre of comics or graphic novels. “I want to see it have legs beyond this storyline.”

That’s Pak’s wish as well. But it depends on how Marvel finds the fan response.
“If people buy the heck out of it, I’m happy to keep writing them,” Pak said.

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Icons like martial arts master Shang-Chi and newbies like Filipino superhero Wave appear in stand-alone, five-part comic book series starting this summer
Story features the ‘cross-Asian portal city’ of Pan, where Asian neighbourhoods get geographically scrambled and then stitched together


Icons like martial arts master Shang-Chi and newbies like Filipino superhero Wave feature in stand-alone, five-part comic book series starting this summer.
