FIRST ISSUE: Red Phoenix #1

FIRST PAGE RECAP
Decades ago, there was an legendary fighter, by the name of Huang, who had never been defeated. He believed in the Chinese Zodiac, and set about having a son born under each sign. He trained each son brutally, nurtured their hateful aspects, and then asked them to kill him, so he would never be defeated. The sons became the evil martial arts killers known as the Twelve Brothers In Silk… but there was a thirteenth brother. This secret son of Huang, raised with strict morals and trained in the martial arts by the O-Sensei and Richard Dragon, was named Tien Shi. Settling in Calvin City, he fights for righteousness as the heroic martial artist Red Phoenix, the antithesis of all the Twelve represent. But his larger quest is to show his brothers the lie at the heart of their existence and offer them redemption or— failing that— to destroy them.

Tien Shi arrives in Calvin City, following the quickly fading trail of Pig, youngest of the Twelve Brothers in Silk. Pig does not seem to be playing to type, the brothers never spend so much time in one place. Something has changed. Tien Shi will wait patiently as Pig plots his next move.

Leveraging his knowledge of history, Tien Shi quickly finds a job in the city's museum, and a place to live in the city's Chinatown. He blends in and waits. The issue ends when he sees members of one of Chinatown's gangs, the Lotus Blossom Triad, shaking down a shop owner. They strike out with what is unmistakeably, though clumsy, one of Pig's signature strikes. Tien Shi intercedes from the shadows making short work of the gang. He questions one, but all the youth can tell him is that he's a student of something called "the Shadow Pagoda."

Continued in Red Phoenix #2