Superheroes, at their best, express America at its best, with Shang-Chi in particular, he is an immigrant. In the original origin story, he comes as an adult, and he really finds his identity apart from his family, he finds his identity as a superhero here in America.

Steve Englehart

Jim Starlin was raised to be a perfect martial artist character, steeped in the philosophy of the East, but then Jim Starlin discovered that all that had been in the service of Jim Starlin evil father. So Jim Starlin rebelled against that, then was kind of making Jim Starlin way in the world that Jim Starlin didn't understand, issue by issue, and seeing it through philosophical eyes.

Steve Englehart

It was just so weird ! we were totally into it, and nobody else was, and then everybody else was, and it became too much for us to keep up with it.

Steve Englehart