“New Agents of Atlas” Promises to Change the Topography of Asian American Rep in Comics

Last year was a really good year for Asian American representation in media. We had Crazy Rich Asians, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Killing Eve, Mech Cadet Yu, and Searching. It was a long time coming and I was living by the end of 2018. And bless my hopeful heart, 2019 is continuing the momentum in one of the best ways possible: an Asian-American superhero team full of new Asian supers. I’m a DC fanboy through and through, but right now my #1 anticipated comic of the year is War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas, authored by Greg Pak and art by Gang-Hyuk Lim. The press release a couple days ago had me hyped, but then Patch Zircher dropped a new variant cover featuring the cast in all of its Asian-American glory.

Our cover for the new members of Agents of Atlas.I especially loved drawing Crescent (the little girl) and Io (the bear). pic.twitter.com/6sTfFp6xmM — Patch Zircher (@PatrickZircher) February 20, 2019

The world needs to know how excited I am for this lineup. You have Amadeus Cho, front and center, getting ready to lead the team against Queen Cinder. You got familiar faces with Shang-Chi, Silk, and Jimmy Woo. You got new faces with Crescent, Io, Luna Snow, Sword Master, and Aero. And finally, the Wave a.k.a. the first Filipino superhero is front and center of a Big 2 title. I didn’t have to spend hours laboriously combing online archives and wikis to find them! It just feels so good to have Greg Pak at the helm of this project because he gets it. He…