 He also explored less graphic means of depicting violence and altered his drawing technique.Responding to the success of writer Ma Wing Shing's manhua, "Chinese Hero", Wong Yuk-long modified Oriental Heroes again in the mid-1980s.The drawing style began to use a style described by Tim Pilcher and Brad Brooks in their 2005 book "The Essential Guide to World Comics" as "more realistic," and the stories became more serious and less comical.