'If Marvel wasn't gonna showcase PI characters and creators, I’ll do it myself.'
To learn more about the motivation behind his art, BuzzFeed spoke to Michel."Every May, I see my social media flooded with AAPI heritage month celebratory posts, and every year without fail, I see ZERO representation of the PI part of AAPI," he said. Since APAHM is an American thing, he finds it weird that Asians and Pacific Islanders are forced to share a heritage month and gets"quite heated" at"the continuous erasure of the PI part.
With my redesign of Kiwi Black, I wanted to create a more authentic-looking mataora moko and also added the pūhoro — the tatau on the thighs and buttocks area. I also stripped his costume back to a more warrior-like garb inspired by. I used an obsidian, carved, flame-looking hook as a symbol on his waist to go with Kiwi Black’s half-demon 'black flame' theme.". In all his iterations in the comics, he’s never looked Sāmoan.
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