Funny thing about Colleen- it seemed like as time went by, little by little she lost her “ethnic” look, looking less and less chinese with every issue she appeared in!
In fact, by the time she appeared in X-Men #118, she looked positively caucasian, and this being the first issue I ever saw her in, I was in a world of confusion…Here was this white girl with a chinese last name, but talking Japanese, and claiming to be “Bushido”! In fact, she actually said “I Am Bushido”, which isn’t really the correct term, as bushido is a code of ethics more than an affiliation.
Anyway, moving on to collecting the Byrne/Claremont Marvel Team-Up issues, by this point Colleen more closely resembled The Wasp than Suwan, and It wasn’t until I managed to collect the early IRON FIST stories that I got to see her as a “chinese” girl proper.
In an interesting side note, my friend Gerg gave me a bunch of issues from the new Iron Fist series by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction, and I was pleasantly surprised to see Colleen looking oriental again, albeit retaining her auburn hair!
Colleen Wing
First Appearance: Marvel Premiere #19
by Doug Moench and Larry Hama
