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A review by icfasntw
The Immortal Iron Fist, Volume 1: The Last Iron Fist Story by Matt Hollingsworth, Patrick Zircher, Guisseppe Cammuncoli, Ed Brubaker, David Aja, Travel Foreman, Russ Heath, Kano, Tonci Zonjic, Duane Swierczynski, Matt Fraction, Tom Palmer, Sal Buscema, John Severin
4.0
QUICK PITCH: Daniel Rand, also known as the Immortal Iron Fist, is in trouble. HIs corporation is being bought up by evil dudes, he just got beat up by Hydra, and some other guy with Iron Fist powers just showed up in New York.
VERDICT: It's Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker, I'm contractually obligated to adore it.
As with many comics, of course, there some weirdness. The worst of it in this particular collection? The Immortal Iron Fist's power comes from K'un Lun, a mystical city with clear ties (geographically, culturally, etc) to China. And, of course, the Immortal Iron Fist is.... a rich, straight, white American guy. I don't know why the Iron Fist can't be a guy who at least can claim some Chinese ancestry. The bad guys are sure Chinese, though! /sigh
I think Fraction and Brubaker added the flashbacks to past Immortal Iron Fists specifically to address some of this. Those flashbacks are great--in particular the pirate. Kickass.
VERDICT: It's Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker, I'm contractually obligated to adore it.
As with many comics, of course, there some weirdness. The worst of it in this particular collection? The Immortal Iron Fist's power comes from K'un Lun, a mystical city with clear ties (geographically, culturally, etc) to China. And, of course, the Immortal Iron Fist is.... a rich, straight, white American guy. I don't know why the Iron Fist can't be a guy who at least can claim some Chinese ancestry. The bad guys are sure Chinese, though! /sigh
I think Fraction and Brubaker added the flashbacks to past Immortal Iron Fists specifically to address some of this. Those flashbacks are great--in particular the pirate. Kickass.