Here’s the latest from DrMaster: Three more volumes of The Four Constables, a Hong Kong comic that sounds like an interesting ensemble detective story. I haven’t read the first set, but it sounds like it might be worth picking up.
UNCOVER THE SECRET…
THE FOUR CONSTABLES ARE BACK!
San Jose, CA – January, 2008 – Your number one source of Hong Kong comics in the U.S.A is at again! DrMaster Publications and DGN Productions have just announced that they will publish the 3-volume continuation of The Four Constables, The Four Constables: Secret of the Delirium Dagger!
Four of China’s supremely skilled detectives loyally serve their Master Zhuge Zhen-Wo, the head bodyguard and advisor for China’s all-powerful Emperor. Emotionless is a master of weapons and devices. Iron Hand possesses incredible chi and can stop the sharpest blades with his bare hands. Life Snatcher is highly skilled in light-foot granting him undaunted legwork and kicks. Lastly Cold Blooded was raised by wolves and has since learned to convert his pain into strength – enabling him to defeat opponents much stronger than himself. Each of them is entrusted by the Emperor with the power to arrest and execute any corrupt officials or lawless criminals within the Chinese Empire. These Imperial Constables act as protectors. With their venerable skill as kung fu practitioners and meticulous sleuths, they root out potential usurpers and discern the cause of many strange occurrences during the Sung Dynasty!
In this sequel to the first series, Emotionless lives! He was saved by the master of the West Town, Yuan-Shan Lan, BUT in return for his debt, Yuan-Shan Lan wants Emotionless to murder him! They engage in an intense fight like none other! At the same time, Iron Hands and Cold Blooded are on a dangerous mission to find the criminals wreaking havoc on local towns. When they accidentally pull in two unconscious bodies from the river who they discover were victims of the criminals’ crimes. Thus the two victims lead the brave constables on a trail after the evil mastermind behind the vicious crimes, and get entangled with his evil pursuit of the powerful Delirium Dagger. Who is he and what machinations does he have planned? The constables fight for their lives as they unravel more secrets and get closer to finding the villainous mastermind…. Don’t miss out on all the action, drama and intrigue!
About the Author:
When it comes to creative team-ups, you can’t get more impressive than comic giant Tony Wong (Weapons of the Gods, Oriental Heroes) locking pencils with rising star Andy Seto (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Shaolin Soccer). They have come together to produce the comic adaptation of The Four Imperial Constables, the critically-acclaimed novel by Wen Rui-An. Wen’s literary works jump-started today’s kung fu hysteria nearly forty years ago.
Although of Chinese descent Wen Rui-An was born in Malaysia. He published his first literary piece when he was only nine years old and organized his own literary group when he was barely twenty. He had completed more than 200 fiction and nonfiction literary pieces before he was thirty. His forty-nine martial arts series have been published under Wang-Sheng Pub. The novels mainly deal with the final years of the Northern Sung Dynasty (ca. 1100 A.D.) under Emperor Huei.
Availability
Volume 1 of The Four Constables: Secret of the Delirium Dagger will be available in June 2008. The full color 128 page graphic novels will be priced at $13.95. Visit www.drmasterbooks.com more detailed series information.