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Immortal Weapons by Mico Suayan, Jason Aaron, Cullen Bunn, Travel Foreman, Duane Swierczynski
lunchlander's review
3.0
This one's a mixed bag, but the Dog Brother and Tiger's Beautiful Daughter stories are both great.
jayspa65's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
informative
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
If you read THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST from start to finish, then I would highly recommend that you pick this one up. It's not essential reading so far as continuity is concerned, but it is a fantastic chance to spend some extra time with these characters and learning more about them in the process. The artwork will either thrill or disappoint depending on the issue in question, but almost all of the stories were entertaining in their own right and the sheer variety of every aspect of this volume is definitely something that sets it apart from other graphic works.
ladydewinter's review
4.0
It's fair to say that I've made several big discoveries when it comes to comics this year. "The Immortal Iron Fist" is my big small discovery, as strange as it sounds, because I still don't quite know why I love it as much as I do. Αs if the fact that it's very well written isn't enough.
This volume collects five stories about the five Immortal Weapons. I picked it up mostly for completion's sake, but I was glad to discover these were genuinely great stories. I'm hard-pressed to pick a favorite, although overall I liked the last three stories a bit more than the first two.
It's also difficult to say who I'd recommend this to, because in all honesty if someone had recommended this to me I'd have said, "Well, thanks, I don't think *that's* my cup of tea since I've never been that much into kung-fu and whatever." And I'd have missed a great, great comic with a main character who I love to a degree that's bordering on ridiculous without quite knowing why (kind of like the series itself, I suppose) and a fascinating cast of "minor" characters, very well-crafted mythology and the best fight-scenes I may have ever read. The idea to "subtitle" the moves with captions was a stroke of genius that actually makes them look and sound more like poetry than anything else, which is very fitting.
This volume collects five stories about the five Immortal Weapons. I picked it up mostly for completion's sake, but I was glad to discover these were genuinely great stories. I'm hard-pressed to pick a favorite, although overall I liked the last three stories a bit more than the first two.
It's also difficult to say who I'd recommend this to, because in all honesty if someone had recommended this to me I'd have said, "Well, thanks, I don't think *that's* my cup of tea since I've never been that much into kung-fu and whatever." And I'd have missed a great, great comic with a main character who I love to a degree that's bordering on ridiculous without quite knowing why (kind of like the series itself, I suppose) and a fascinating cast of "minor" characters, very well-crafted mythology and the best fight-scenes I may have ever read. The idea to "subtitle" the moves with captions was a stroke of genius that actually makes them look and sound more like poetry than anything else, which is very fitting.
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