Re: new name
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:52 pmnianfong wrote:HAHAHAA Strange got my irony with wuming!!! I didn't think anyone else would get it...bahaha.
we will actually likely have wuming in our banner soon actually.
the real story is this:
ma rong cheng (ma wing shing) was a no name artist, and made this comic called zhong hua ying xiong (called Blood Sword and Blood Sword Dynasty in english), where the main character's name was Hua Ying Xiong (a pun on "Chinese Hero")
he was hands down the best artist in all HK comics. he wanted his name on the comic. the publisher (jademan, huang yu lang) refused. so he quit. jademan being a mobster, sent people to beat up Ma. Ma went on to start his own comic, tian xia hua ji, aka feng yun, aka Stormriders, which has gone on to become the best selling comic in HK of all time. After like a few issues of the comic, when it started, Ma brought Hero back into his comic, and just called him Wuming (nameless). even brought his servants in under slightly different names. even his sword style was the "nameless" sword style. his sword, while it still looked just like Hua Ying Xiong's original "dragonspring sword" (long quan jian), was renamed "Hero sword" (ying xiong jian), after the original character's name.
Ok, I really don't want to side track this thread.. but I need to know. I believe this is the same company who put out this?:
http://www.animecornerstore.com/storoftaobno.html
Its called Story of the Tao in English, not sure about the Chinese title, but it was 10 volumes long and they only brought over 8. For YEARS I've been trying to track down the rest, even if it isn't translated. Does anyone have the name of this, or links?
I'm reaching here, but damn, I enjoyed that story/art and to not have it finished sucked raw
