![]() ![]() It has become like unto a thing of iron! Thanks to this blog’s readers who made this reunion possible. Aja’s notes on his sketches make it clear he hated the booties.Īnyway, I totally geeked out on Iron Fist for a few weeks in January, and no matter how many people tell me they didn’t like the TV series, my fondness for Fraction’s Immortal Iron Fist and most of the vintage Claremont/Byrne stories remains undiminished. It has some great design-process pages of David Aja explaining how he developed an Iron Fist costume that didn’t suck, no matter how awesome John Byrne made booties and spiky spandex collars look in the 1970s. As far as I can tell, all the material in the Director’s Cut appeared in the TPB. Having read these runs of Immortal Iron Fist both in TPBs and single issues-and having sold them both-I opted for the single issues and snagged a few variant covers such as the Marvel Zombies variant (which had nothing to do with the storyline) and the “Director’s Cut” of #1. This continuation of The Immortal Iron Fist is an enjoyable read that capitalizes on the expanded mythos opened by the previous run-and it looks amazing. Travel Foreman, who did many of the flashback scenes to Iron Fists of yesteryear during Fraction’s run, becomes the primary artist. Duane Swierczynski picks up the scripting and imprisons Iron Fist in a horrifying hell from which escape seems impossible. I would love to see an Orson Randall series by Ellis and Cassaday with the pulp flair they brought to so many issues of Planetary.Īll good things come to an end, but I like the next two story arcs after this creative team leaves. Orson’s potential remains largely untapped. He appeared in a couple of one-shots which are fun but not indispensable. Orson opened up so much storytelling potential that it couldn’t even be contained in the main series. His role as a “pulp” version of Iron Fist pays homage to vintage heroes such as Doc Savage and the Shadow, with David Aja specifically mentioning in his design notes that the costume should invoke those characters. Orson Randall also comes off as especially awesome. For some of the characters, that doom comes true. Everything about this arc screams impending doom. ![]() The storyline starts off with “The Last Iron Fist Story”, and it ends with the revelation that every Iron Fist except Orson died on their thirty-third birthday-a birthday that arrives for Daniel Rand on the final page of the story arc. Along the way, Orson reveals there are more uses for the Fist power than Danny ever dreamed, and an untold history that forever changes Danny’s life. Daniel Rand, who up until that point had been the only Iron Fist we knew about, met Orson Randall, a man who knew Danny’s father and was also the Iron Fist in WWI-and rejected the role due to the horrors he witnessed. It took a 1970s attempt to exploit the popularity of kung-fu movies, then expanded the mythos into a rich history of amazing people who had earned the power of the Fist over centuries. ![]() I first read Fraction’s run as two TPBs from the public library, and it blew my mind. ![]()
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