#immortal iron fist

[finnflynn]

doodles !

[captain-trainor]

I don't ever see anyone talking about just how Danny's trauma affected him. When I read the Power Man and Iron Fist comics I was shocked by how glanced over his problems were sometimes.

The way Danny freaked out when he was hanging in the air by a rope? Getting flashbacks to when his family was betrayed and his father was killed?

When Discus had Iron Fist on the roof and it was related to when Harold Meachum was pushing his father, Wendell Rand, off the mountain. When they literally said, "...as the father died, so, too, will die the son."

The way that after K'un L'un disowned Danny, he wasn't eating properly. Admitting that he doesn't feel like much of anything because of this. K'un L'un was all he had left in life after his parents died, and they took him in, after all.

He mourned his sister that he never even really knew. Tried to end his life when he found out that K'un L'un was destroyed because he had left to go to Earth, only to be marked as impure when he came out of his mind state. The way he would often go silent, bottle his emotions, give the cold shoulder to everyone when he was upset.

It just drives me insane that I never see any talk about any of this, it's just glanced over as if it wasn't important.

[ungoliantschilde]

some Travel Foreman artwork.

[bookoftheironfist]

"One day, this mantle bestowed upon me... the Iron Fist... one day it will kill me. I know this. And I hope it's a glorious, heroic death. I hope I die in a way that honors my gifts. I hope I embrace my death when it comes. I imagine fire. I imagine blood."

Immortal Iron Fist #3 by Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, David Aja, Matt Hollingsworth, and Dave Lanphear

[scarletkako]

Iron Fist (Danny Rand) practice sketch

Always had a soft spot for this character ever since I was a kid!!

[vertigoartgore]

2007's Immortal Iron Fist Vol.1 #4 (LGY #30) cover by David Aja.

[extraordinary-heroes]

Immortal Iron Fists Vol 1 #5 (Cover art by Kaare Kyle Andrews)

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Danny Rand (Iron Fist)…

[holy-shit-comics]

[popfishjr]

MERRY CHRISTMAS, BITCHES!

I almost died while drawing this, so don't judge

Wtf happned to little Danny's face T_T

Divider credits to @silkholland

[archivist-crow]

The Immortal Iron Fist - issues #1-6 - “The Last Iron Fist Story” (2006-2007)

Writers: Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction

Art and covers: David Aja with Travel Foreman, Kano, Tonci Zonjic, et al.

Between 2000 and 2010, Marvel had kind of a mini golden age. It seemed like everything on the shelves was outstanding and even now, nearly 15 years on, the roster of classic runs during the decade is still thoroughly impressive. It was such an impressive time that Fraction, Brubaker, and Aja’s The Immortal Iron Fist run sometimes gets a bit lost, but it’s among the best.

The problem with Danny Rand, Iron Fist, is that he was never particularly interesting. Marvel already had Shang Chi, then there’s that whole white savior thing, and he has kind of an odd, murky origin story that comes off something like a kung fu Bruce Wayne. Pairing him with Luke Cage, a character also suffering from low sales in the 70s, helped, but the character was just never really able to stand on his own. That all changed with this run.

Fraction and Brubaker explode the mythology of the Iron Fist out in every direction and establish the Iron Fist as part of a mystical lineage, like that of the Sorcerer Supreme or the Black Panther. They immediately introduce Bei Ming-Tian, Iron Fist during the 13th century, then we meet Orson Randall, the previous Iron Fist, who has been living in hiding since the 1930s. In issue #2, we meet Wu Ao-Shi, “The Pirate Queen of Pinghai Bay”, Iron Fist of the 16th century, who could channel her chi into her arrows.

Most of the run is told in a nonlinear format, jogging between Danny’s story in the present and the stories of past Iron Fists. Aja handles the art in the present with various artists handling the pencils for the past. Aja’s covers are beautifully composed, using broad vertical and horizontal bands surrounded by eye-catching white negative space. His interior art is even more gorgeous with a dark, gritty, noir-ish style, dominated by shadows and muted colors. But the first arc is just a warmup. Things really get going in the second arc.

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[tea-with-cinnamontoast]

HELP IM READING MS MARVEL AND STUMBLED ACROSS AN AD FOR IMMORTAL IRON FIST AND ???? LMAO WH

"why are you so afraid of male nipples, huh?" i cant 💀

[bookoftheironfist]

"Hail Hydra?" "Wrong answer." Immortal Iron Fist #6 by Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, David Aja, and Matt Hollingsworth

Danny has just, moments before, epically powered up by absorbing Orson Randall's chi. I'm obsessed with the detail that he is now so super-charged that he lights up Colleen's katana just by touching it, seemingly without even trying.

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