The Immortal Iron Fist
# 4 - The Last Iron Fist Story: part 4 is a comic book published by Marvel Publishing & released on 4 / / 2007Plot Summary
Overview:
You are Danny Rand -- scion of a martial arts dynasty that stretches back to the dawn of time, CEO of a multibillion-dollar business conglomerate, and a recently reactivated superhero in the Marvel Universe. A plot to destroy you, your legacy, your company and your good name hatched centuries ago and now has you in its clutches -- and your only ally is a might-be-crazy former Iron Fist that somehow survived the First World War. It's your fourth issue. You are probably doomed.
Contains Spoilers:
Orson Randall tells Danny how his father and mother had crashed into K'un-Lun on the one day every ten years that it is on their plane of existance. His mother was prengant with him and he was born there. He was born there and accepted as a native son. He was trained by Lei Kung, the same master that Danny had (since he's immortal and all). Danny gives Orson a hard time since he believes in using guns. Danny calls it "gun-fu," but Orson explains how the Shou-Lao Chi can be extended into projectiles fired. They make their way to Orson's father's pneumatic subway station deep under New York City.
At the Wai-Go American headquarters, Davos appears to be training. He easily takes out two Hydra legions. He is now ready to claim the power of the Iron Fist for himself.
At the subway station, the two Iron Fist prepare to fight as it is invaded by Hydra.
Creators
Characters
Teams
Locations
Concepts
Objects
Story Arc
|
Is this book suppose to be THIS good? |
|
You have a character that has been a C-Lister at best... joined by someone that has used that same identity in the past... fighting an organization that has been kicked around the Marvel Universe for decades... does this sound like it would make a good story arc? Of course not. So why is this one of the best books Marvel is putting out right now? You can probably put the blame on Matt Fraction, Ed Brubaker and David Aja.
This is exactly how a C-List character should be brought back into the spotlight. Brubaker and Fraction manage to tell a compelling story, while not pretending Iron Fist is something that he's not. Too often writers try to bring back C-Listers, and put them in monumental storylines where the entire universe is at stake... and most often readers are like "WTF? Where are the Avengers and Fantastic Four during all this?". The story ends up being contrived, and an obvious attempt to putting importance on a character that doesn't deserve it.
Here Matt and Ed examined what situations Iron Fist would actually find himself in, without asking the readers to take a leap of faith... and they made a kick ass story out of it. They're also exploring the whole Iron Fist mythology in a way that hasn't really been done before, and making it damn interesting. It's only at issue #4, and I can tell you right now if they'd announce a mini-series written by either Brubaker or Fraction about the past exploits of Orson Randall (that other Iron Fist) I would pick it up without any hesitation.
If the great writing wasn't enough, you also have the amazing pencils of David Aja. If you want to write a comic book with a lot of martial art fight scenes in it, do yourself a favor and beg David Aja to draw it. A lot of artists have a hard time to make fight scenes seem interesting, Aja isn't one of them. The only downfall of having him on this book, is that the other artists that draw the different time periods in the flashbacks pale in comparison to him.
| Url: | |
| HTML: | |
| BBCode: | |
| Added by: | G-Man |
| Date Added: | June 6, 2008 |
-
G-Man
57 points
- Obi Wan Kenobi! 6 points
- asxz 2 points
- fesak 2 points
- SuperGamera 1 point
