Marvel Nights: Luke Cage

LUKE CAGE Going from neighborhood to neighborhood in Manhattan can be a pretty wild experience. Me, I live up in the triple digit streets of Harlem, well out of the shadow of the high tech skyscrapers downtown like the Baxter Building or Stark Tower. You head across Lower Manhattan, to Chinatown and Little Fuzhou, you might as well be in the middle of Hong Kong. Herbal stores, noodle shops, discount electronics, laundromats, all decorated with kanji and dragons and pagoda towers or paifang arches. Chinatown got started as a conclave of Asian immigrants all forced together by circumstance, and the set tripping down here has been getting out of control lately. Cantonese vs non-Cantonese, Vietnamese vs Korean. Some Yakuza offshoot calling itself "the Hand" even built a goddamn feudal Japanese castle in the middle of a demolished city block that they called the Shadowland. The speakers in my sky blue hooptie are blaring "Express Yourself" as I speed the whole way down ...