To show support to his gay friends, Housey decides to march in the 2010 Village Halloween Parade. Housey dresses up as Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas and carries a can of Coca Cola with him. When he gets to Broome Street and 6th Avenue, he notices a fellow parade attendee who's dressed up as Anita Hill. Sensing a moment of serendipity, Housey loudly proclaims, "There is a pubic hair on this Coke" which leads to an unexpected encounter.
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Housey heads to Tokyo, Japan in the fifth Housey Comic where he immerses himself into the spectacle that is the Tokyo Game Show. Housey meets some cosplayers outside the venue and attempts to make himself a costume of his favorite video game character of all time - Mario. When he fails to obtain enough red cloth to create Mario's shirt, he decides to become "Barechested" Mario who's dressed in blue overalls. Housey's appearance leads to a a confrontation with someone who's cosplaying as Luigi.
July 18, 2010 - Ladies Man
The fourth Housey Comic finds our hero back in the present day where he learns about the subculture known as the "Pick Up Artist Community." Housey has had success with women of his own social standing but he's never had luck with the "10s" of the world. Housey resolves to learn the ways and means of the PUA legends and attempts to meet "Mystery," "Style," and even a fellow Chinese nicknamed "Papa."
May
18, 2010 -
Living the American Dream
The third volume of Housey Comics takes readers back to the days
of Housey's youth when he was growing up in the suburbs of New Jersey.
Housey and his mom, dad, and younger brother are the only Asian family in
the entire city of Hoboken. On the first day of school, Housey befriends
a boy named Tyrone Johnson who's black and a boy named Rick Polizzi who's
Italian. Housey is elected classroom president on the first week of school
(mainly because no one else wanted the responsibilities and the drudgery)
and he develops a crush on a girl named Josephine Walker who wants nothing
to do with him.
March
18, 2010 - Brother Quarterly
In the second issue of Housey Comics, Housey tries to create a
magazine for African-Americans titled "Brother Quarterly" which attempts to
clone the efforts of "Gentleman Quarterly" by teaching black males how to
dress, giving grooming tips, and shilling products for corporate America.
Things go horribly wrong when Housey misinterprets the "N" word as being
acceptable in print when it isn't. Salvation comes in the form of an old
friend named Tyrone Johnson who teaches Housey which words are acceptable in
black culture and which ones aren't as well as the context in which those
words may be used.
January 18,
2010 -
Ignition
In
the first episode, Housey falls asleep on the "7" Train and winds
up in Flushing, NY where he is immersed in a foreign culture. Although
Flushing is located in New York, it is primarily Asian and Housey is an ABC
(American Born Chinese) who doesn't speak the language, won't eat the food,
and refuses to learn Cantonese or Mandarin. Housey meets a bum who helps him
order some "normal looking" food so he won't starve and gets him on a bus back to his own
neighborhood.
Housey Comics is published six times a year on a bi-monthly
schedule.
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