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I only hope we'll find out soon! Probably was some bad tea.

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Originally Posted by Tev (Post 998934)

My only fear: This isn't going to turn into Highlander the animated series where Fei takes the young Wong on some pilgrimage to see the other masters and fight them to gain their knowledge in hopes that after condensing the Five Dragons into one boy he may be able to defeat Xu Li, the shadowy immortal kung-fu master is it?

Yes and no. You'll see!

This is totally and obviously a superhero comic in kung fu skin.

Holy shit awesome!

So Wong defeated a guy master Fei and four others like him disbanded over.

Is elder Wong stalling for time, or trying to find a way around slaughtering Chan Sen and his army so his precious teapot doesn't get damaged in the crossfire?

You'll find out...eventually!

This isn't DBZ, threats come from more than just one guy being able to punch harder and yell louder than another.

Xu Li's danger to the group can come from less physical means, like finances, connections, assassin's, etc. Or matters of principle. Could be they disbanded cos they didn't agree on how to deal with him, or maybe he planted some seeds of distrust and they broke up.

Or by the time Wong fights him he's an old man and not as much of a physical threat.

You never know! I don't know yet, actually :) (or DO I? dun dun duun)

In any case, this comic has more angles than just "punchin' hardest = winner" (at least I hope it does :p I'd get pretty bored if it didn't ^_^)

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this comic has more angles than just "punchin' hardest = winner"

Of course it does. Kicks are also a concern.

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Originally Posted by Kurosen (Post 998955)

Of course it does. Kicks are also a concern.

What about headbutts?

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Originally Posted by MSperoni (Post 998914)

The first guy is Fei and the second guy is Liu Feng. But the women don't necessarily "belong" to anyone in the chain so you're wrong about that part.

Actually Fei is wood.

The Wu Xing connection with them is very loose, essentially just as a kind of organizational thing w/ some light symbolism.. The first girl (my favorite) is "fire" but that doesn't mean she'll be shooting fireballs or anything like that.
It seemed to me a neat/suitable idea to subtly include references to those 5 elements since Brian had made "5 Dragons" and "5 Mantis Fist" . I also figured a group of masters living in ancient China would have to reference some kinda traditional philosophy in their group, it seems to me that the elements are referenced in a lot of stuff in some way (from feng shui to some martial arts like xingyiquan).

But it goes like:

Fei Xian = Wood
Girl 1 = Fire
Liu Feng = Earth
Girl 2 = Metal
Shaolin Monk Guy = Water

Even though I think Metal and Water are Yin elements I didn't wanna assign both women there because I really liked the idea of having a "fire" girl :D

So this means they were all literally born in the Year of the Dragon? This is so authentic! So they're all spaced apart by 12 years, since they are the 5 elements...Bruce Lee was born in the year of the Metal Dragon, I believe...

No, like Matt said, it's a loose connection. "Five" just cropped up a lot in the writing and the elemental themes of the Wu Xing roughly aligned with some characters/plots.