Not for my comic, but for my novel...
I'm not so much embarrassed of it, but it is kinda funny. In 1923, after the Bolsheviks won the revolution, they commissioned a children's author to write a series of children's books about the victory. They were, obviously, pretty uhhhhh full of ulterior motives, but they were also actually legitimately fun books. I really enjoyed them as a kid. It centered around a trio of characters - a brother and a sister, and then a friend they met, who was Chinese. They joined up with the Red Army and fought against the White Army, blah blah.
Now it was great that there was a Chinese character in a 1923 Soviet book but he was, uh... Well. Not the most interesting character, let's just put it that way.
So when I was working on my sci-fi Russian Revolution-inspired story, I kinda took the three character archetypes and rewrote them completely, with more focus on the Asian-descended character, who became the protagonist for the anti-imperial rebel side. The early days of the revolution were crazy intersectional and a whole bunch of different cultures and groups contributed to it (which makes how it all turned out in the end all the more heart-breaking), which is something I wanted reflected here, and it seemed right to revive the ghost of that poorly written character to do it.
