Hoping this isn't "The Last Iron Fist Story"!
In the sixth adventure about Daniel Rand from Marvel's winning team of David Aja and Ed Brubaker, also working on the current Daredevil, we see the six part story arc that started off this series come to a close with always great artwork and coloring, along with a continued unraveling of the Iron Fist legend that makes you want more as more is given to you.
The beginning of the ish has a Raider's of the Lost Arc opening that shows how Orson is connected to the Rand family and suggests that Daniel's late father Wendell might not biologically be a Rand. An epic struggle between HYDRA and the Iron Fist Crew (Danny, Orson, Power Man, Coleen Wing, and Misty Knight) comes to a high action conclusion in the upper floors of the Rand Corporation building. Refershing humor is mixed in with the well drawn action; with some of it coming from Danny as we've seen in this series.
If I had only one complaint about this series it's how Danny has changed in his personality and now has a Spidey type wit and sometimes a sense of carelessness about him. In regards to his company he was always this way as there are no economics courses in the K'un L'un academy for Iron Fists, but in some senses you'll notice a general irresponsiblity about Danny in the series; like when he recklessly smashes two expensive Wing Chun Wooden Dummy posts with iron fist powered attacks in issue 2. This type of behavior ticked me off slightly since in the 70's(our time, not Marvel time), if anything, he was too humorless; soldier like in his tactiturn countenance and martial discipline. In the old comics he was naieve to the modern world (the comedy then came at his expense) and thought with more of an East Asian philosophy instead of looking at a room full of HYDRA squad members and saying "We're dooooomed" in, once again, a Peter Parker-ish/Deadpool way. It could be argued that Danny's personality has changed since what would be the mid-80's (on Marvel's sliding timescale) since he has adjusted to being a wealthy American, but all of these complaints are irrelevant anyway because towards the end, a dying Orson offers his portion of the power of Shou-Lao (which gives Iron Fists their power) which sobers Danny up and brings back the old attitude (the scene I described was my favorite BTW, very emotional and conceptually awesome).
The only other thing that's a bit frustrating but not necessarilly bad with this ish is how the confrontation between Danny and Davos (Grudge Match, son!) is stunted. After receiving the power of Orson, Danny squares off with a somewhat shocked Davos. After a neat panel showing the two doing flying sidekicks en route with one another and an energy blast that subsequently destroys the top floor of RandCorp, Davos cryptically says that Danny "cheated" (perhaps reffering to the boost from Orson?) and that he will rematch him in a tournament that relates to K'un L'un, the Crane Mother, and several other mystical elements well inserted into this series. Anyways, I was hoping for more of a Steel Serpent on Iron Fist showdown, but it looks like we'll have to wait until the tourney, which, at this point, this reader is more than prepared to do!
The Immortal Iron Fist #6: The Last Iron Fist Story-Part 6 of 6 gets
4 sonic shurikens out of 5.