Storm Riders, Volume 5

Storm Riders #5

by Wing Shing Ma

In book 5 of this classic tale of adventure, the lines of friendship, honor, and love are tested. Wind goes to Lin-Yin Cave to visit the scene of his fathers death. To his surprise Cloud is inside the cave. Cloud reveals that the killer of Wind's father is Flame Kylin.Later...Cloud's desire to have Kong-Chi (Frost's wife) is so strong that he is unable to bear it. He finds her and they spend the entire night together. When Wind finds out about their relationship he gives them an ultimatum.... either never see each other again, or leave forever. Unable to choose between the two options Cloud decides there his only one other alternative: kill Wind.

Wind and Cloud launch into battle and Kong-Chi is caught in-between. When she sees that Wind is in peril of death she intervenes, only to be subject to Cloud's deadly strike...Cloud's world falls apart in that single moment...

123 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Wing-shing Ma (b. 16 January 1961) is a Hong Kong wuxia (Chinese swordplay) manhua (Chinese comic book) artist, writer and publisher. He is best known for writing and illustrating the Fung Wan (Storm Riders) and Chinese Hero series. He also contributed illustrations to the "graphic novel" adaptations of Jin Yong's wuxia novel Heaven Sword & Dragon Sabre and Zhang Yimou's wuxia film Hero (2002)

Reviews

[Rob · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some really great pages of art, the story was hard to follow, translation issues? Not easy to follow having missed the earlier 4 issues, still this was a good read.