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It has been more than four decades since Edward Said discussed about Orientalism in his book. Orientalism, as a discourse opened up the academic platform to discuss the necessity to let the people speak for themselves. It highlighted the importance of not letting the East be represented by the West which in most cases was a comparative representation. And it also highlighted the importance of a non-biased representation in a post-imperial world. Since then, the idea of the Oriental East has undergone numerous modifications along with the changed across the globe. And stories played a major part in it. Stories that were written by the East and of the East became a major source for reading the East through their own words. But the West still continues to represent the East in the manner exactly similar that existed four decades ago. While representations of the “authentic” East is promoted, there is still a huge popularity when it comes to the Western representations of the East. The following paper discusses two such stories that are prevalent today and are consumed worldwide. The paper discusses the Western graphic novels gaining in on the story telling market, construction of the modern myths by mass acceptance and representation of the Oriental East in the classic Saidian way. The paper also discusses the implications of the continuation of such feudal representations in a neo-colonial world and provides a possible alternative.