Iron Fist Epic Collection: The Fury of Iron Fist (Marvel,
2015)
This is grindhouse comics at their best!
Straight out of the 70s it’s Danny Rand, master of the “Iron
Fist”, in NYC, looking for revenge and later trying to be a hero. Crazy action
with nepharious billionaires, gimmicky fighters, ninjas, & more!
Several things jumped out at me: first, you have to
acknowledge the problematic nature of the white explorer finding the mystical
Asian city trope. And of course, this
white kid is the best at what they do.
That’s a problem. (I’m interested
in seeing what the new TV series does with this.) But hey, there’s a very
diverse assortment of characters. We
meet Colleen Wing & her dad, Professor Wing. Colleen is Japanese, so she’s got ninja
skills, not to mention that she mind melds with Danny fairly early on in the
series. So she’s more or less his best
friend. We also get to spend time with Misty Knight, former cop turned private
detective with a robot arm. Yeah, it’s
that kind of a series.
Keep in mind that this is a mainstream comic from the 70s,
so the storytelling is much more episodic that you might expect. But it’s a hell of a lot of fun.
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