It illustrates the life of Hero, whose parents are murdered by foreigners in search of his family heirloom, the Blood Sword. Drawn with a level of detail and realism previously unseen in Hong Kong comics, Chinese Hero quickly won over the hearts of Hongkongers when it was first released in 1980. Likewise pursuing the popular wuxia trend is Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword. Photo: Mpc116ven (via Wikimedia Commons) 4 Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword (中華英雄) He might be out fooling around with his friends, courting his love interest Miss Chan, or mocking hipsters, but Old Master Q never misses an opportunity to subvert expectations and inject some comedy into the routines of daily life.
Whether he is feeding fuel to a robot dog or performing dentistry on a vampire, Old Master Q is constantly dropped into fantastical circumstances that accentuate the extraordinary moments within mundanity. As a trio, the protagonists hold a mirror up to the values and problems of working-class Hong Kong people. Always cheeky and humorous, this comic series, created by Alfonso Wong, features the whimsical adventures of the nosy yet righteous Old Master Q, an elderly man who only ever dons the same traditional Chinese clothing.Īccompanying Old Master Q are his two friends, the happy-go-lucky Big Potato and the good-natured everyman Mr Chin. Gracing newspapers and magazines since the 1960s, Old Master Q is the ultimate symbol of Hong Kong comics.
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