They Call Us Bruce 140: They Call Us The Good Asian

Jeff Yang and Phil Yu present an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America.



What's up, podcast listeners? We've got another episode of our podcast They Call Us Bruce. (Almost) each week, my good friend, writer/columnist Jeff Yang and I host an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America, with a strong focus on media, entertainment and popular culture.

In this episode, we welcome writer Pornsak Pichetshote, creator of the noir crime comic book The Good Asian. We discuss the inspiration behind his Chinese American detective Edison Hark, the real-life history at heart of this hard-boiled mystery, and why The Good Asian, set in 1930s Chinatown, feels like a tale for modern times.

Chinatown Detective Hunts a Serial Killer in 'The Good Asian'

New comic book series from Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi.



Exclusive Preview of The Good Asian
Acclaimed comic book creators Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi are teaming up to launch their latest comic book series, The Good Asian, due out this May from Image Comics. The series follows a hardboiled Chinese American detective named Edison Hark as he hunts for a serial killer in 1936 Chinatown. With systemic racism running rampant, Hark and the characters face the harsh realities living under the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first immigration ban in American history. Check out the preview here.