Yknow, I dig what Rich does with Glyphs — obviously, which is why I offered to host him here on PCS — but it being “The Language of the Black Comics Community” and all, it kinda leaves us Asians out. I always think I should try and fill in somehow, but I have to admit the monthly adventures of DC’s all-new, all-Asian Atom have failed to motivate me thus far. (Plus it was being drawn by John Byrne for a while there…)

Thankfully, this week there were a couple books that got me off lazy Filipino butt. First & foremost, we have the rockin Johnny Hiro — tagged as half-asian, all-hero by publisher Adhouse and superslapstickmonsterificaction (among other things) by Brendan of Brend & Adan’s Pick’s Pans & Scans.

Actually what Brendan said was: “So if you like Scott Pilgrim, and I know you do, check out Johnny Hiro (half asian, all hero). It is pretty great. With just the right mix of superslapstickmonsterificaction, Fred Chao’s dream-like tale reads like a Nickelodeon fairy tale, only in Brooklyn with giant lizards.” But you can read the whole review here.

Naturally our hero saves the day — though not without the help of A-OK Robot (”The A stands for Action!”) and um, Mayor Bloomberg — along with his girl.

How often do you see the asian guy never get the girl? Like Romeo Must Die — Jet Li kicks all kinds of ass, gets none; I think maybe Aliyaah gave him a peck on the cheek. Which is why I didn’t scan the first 5 pages for this month’s Heroes For Hire preview, because then you would’ve missed Shang-Chi’s scene with Tarantula.

I have to say, I don’t know anything about Tarantula, but I thought that was a great scene. And new artist Clay Mann really delivered there.

Anyway, that’s it for the debut installment of FU-KUNG. Assuming you enjoyed it I promise not to wait til the next time an Asian hero gets the girl to post something.