We also learn how Fu Manchu lied, deceived and controlled young Shang-Chi’s life and its effect and affect on others around him.
Paul Gulacy provided the stunning cover and Mike Zeck the equally impressive interior art.
In issue #64 Shang-Chi, after successfully venturing out on his own, literally bumps into a childhood friend while on a walk on the streets of the city.
The only problem is the childhood friend he knew he believed was dead.
The friend flees with Shang-Chi fast in pursuit.
As the drama unfolds Shang-Chi thinks back to his childhood and the friend he thought he had lost.
It was a troubling time, as Shang-Chi’s father, Fu Manchu, demanded much of his son-even his choice of friends.
One day Shang-Chi is kidnapped and held by men who supposedly opposed Fu Manchu.
Eventually Shang-Chi is rescued by his father unaware that it was a setup by his father so that he would trust only him. He never knew his friend was complicit in the whole faked abduction.
This issue delves deeply into the childhood of Shang-Chi and how he was manipulated, molded and cast into the form his father deemed fit.
Fu Manchu did not count on the indomitable will of Shang-Chi nor his inborn desire for justice and truth.
I consider this a pivotal issue in the Shang-Chi legacy and an important issue to have as it pertains to the character.
Proverbs 18:21 (KJV) “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
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