An excellent introduction to the work of these creatives and fun stories in general even if you don't know much about a lot of these characters. Read Full Review

Overall, Marvel's Voices Identity #1 is an entertaining set of stories which not only highlight these heroes but also the excellent creators. The stories by the different creators are wondrous. The art by the different artists are beautiful. Altogether, Marvel's Voices Identity #1 is a comics which introduces readers to these heroes and these talented creators. Read Full Review

Marvel's Voices: Identity #1 gives us a glimpse at the Asian experience in the Marvel Universe and gives us a new perspective. Read Full Review

It's a fantastic anthology overall, full of impressive work and stories. All of the Marvel's Voices comics should aspire to be this. Read Full Review

This is a good anthology that highlights some incredible characters many casual fans may not know about, but you should. More impressive is how this collection gives lesser-known creators a chance to shine and show off their abilities as storytellers. Not every story is a home run but paired with the supplemental materials and some great stories touching on difficult topics, Marvel's Voices: Identity is a very strong addition to the series. Read Full Review

What is vs What if - 8
That one thing - 8
Jimmy Woo 1959 - 5.5
Seeing red - 6.5
Personal heroes - 6.5
Singular/plural - 5.5
Traditional pink sushi - 8
New York state of mind - 7.5

This was fine. Anthologies can be rough, but doing things like this is nothing but a net benefit for uplifting marginalized communities. Because this is about race, we've got some racist reviews here.

Briton seems to think that publishing comics that celebrate an immutable characteristic is divisive. This is not the case. It's only divisive if you have a problem with people celebrating who they are. Nothing in any of these comics is at the expense of people outside of whichever group is being celebrated. The reason it's good to celebrate these groups is because society's treatment of them is not up to par with what it should be, and these people are looked down upon for it. We need to uplift marginalized groups instead of ignoring them.

Merlyn thinks it is cringe to point out how Asian people are treated. The term cringe is so overused, and it's become a blanket term to hide behind when you want to point at something and call it degeneracy or claim it is invalid, and yet any which way you do that would make you look like a piece of shit. In this case, it would make you look like a racist piece of shit.

Vern isn't being racist, as far as I can tell, but they are perpetuating this super fucked up conflict between Asians and African Americans in the US. This goes back a very long time, it isn't a new thing that BLM created, nor is it a by-product of having a BLM movement, nor is the BLM movement inherently racist towards Asians. This sort of conflict is actually a product of Asians being seen as the "good minority" by white people. This is because Asians are considered hard working and smart. The actuality is that Asians fall prey to the many problems all minorities face in this country, and the scales for their socioeconomic and educational statuses are skewed due to specific immigrants that come to America who are wealthy and highly educated. Anyway, all this is to say that Asians are propped up as being "better" than African Americans, Hispanics, etc, and this creates a tension between these groups, beyond the tensions that already exist in the lower classes. Don't perpetuate this sort of thing, it's bad for everyone. more

It's the usual Voices drill, a grab bag of short strips produced by creators from a particular demographic box. This time it's Asians, Asian-Americans, and Pacific Islanders. There are a few regrettable strips, a few solid ones, and a few standouts. I felt the Shang-Chi and Ms. Marvel strips were well above average. As a whole, the collection is satisfying if (as usual for Voices) inessential.

I wanted to like this and at the beginning I really thought I would but after Yang and Strain's stories (Jubilee's was especially good) it just kept getting worse and worse all culminating in that cringey story at the end.

Marvel’s Voices: Identity #1, edited by Darren Shan (Marvel)

I sought this book out after it received a 2022 Eisner nomination for “Best Single Issue/One-Shot” (I was surprised it wasn’t in the “Best Anthology” category). Needless to say, my expectations were high. I enjoyed the first story by multiple Eisner-winner Gene Luen Yang entitled “What is vs. What if”. I felt that we all could have benefited from more elaboration of Shang-Chi’s story. The rest of the content was marginal at best (and that’s being generous). Any reviewer should be able to acknowledge the value of a project that empowers traditionally marginalized groups, but it is irresponsible to mistake an excellent idea with excellence execution. Considering the thousands of eligible books released in 2021, this book does not come close to meeting the distinction for one of the five coveted nominations in the category of “Best Single Issue”. more

It is worry that comics can be published 'celebrating' a particular sexuality, race or gender. Stop this divisive poison.

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SurvivorLiv - Feb 21, 2022

no you are just a bigot

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