#immortal iron fist

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Shall we return to Iron Fist? Maaaybe

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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.

[vertigoartgore]

2009's Immortal Weapons Vol.1 #1-5 covers by cover artist David Aja. Source

[bookoftheironfist]

"I am the Immortal Iron Fist. I have traveled this country of violence to aid my brothers, even as they labor to lay the rails that will spread evil from ocean to ocean. I have fed the hungry. Given aid to the wounded. Protected those who cannot protect themselves. Now, it takes all of my power...to protect myself."

Kwai Jun-Fan versus the Ch'i-Lin, from Immortal Iron Fist #17 by Duane Swierczynski, Travel Foreman, Russ Heath, Matt Milla, Dave Lanphear, and Natalie Lanphear

[scarletkako]

Iron Fist (Danny Rand) practice sketch

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

[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)…

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Immortal Iron Fist (2006) #11

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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]

"Even in his youth, Bei Bang-Wen was usually considered the smartest person in the room. And he was. Most times, anyway. It came as no surprise that, upon becoming the Immortal Iron Fist, Bei Bang-Wen found methods of using the golden chi of Shou-Lao the Undying in more...cerebral...ways than any of his predecessors." Immortal Iron Fist #15 by Matt Fraction, Khari Evans, Jelena Kevic Djurdjevic, Paul Mounts, Victor Olazaba, and Dave Lanphear

Bei Bang-Wen, one of the Iron Fists who specialized in and expanded the mental applications of the chi of Shou-Lao, and his Perfect Strategy Mind technique.

Interestingly, Fat Cobra has something similar:

Immortal Iron Fist #9 by Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, David Aja, Matt Hollingsworth, June Chung, Roy Allan Martinez, et al.

(Or maybe that's just what Fat Cobra calls his brain, you can never really tell with him.)

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[sugaredapple1525]

Oh, so not much has changed.

So, Loki's always been a jealous little thing, especially when comes Thor, has been happening since they were children and has frequently caused problems.

And I was wondering, now that Loki is God of Stories, now that he's emotionally grown is there any difference?

Um, no-

Not really, not when having to share Thor with "new" people.

He's even giving him the unjust punishment Odin gave him (minus the kid's organs) and the title he spent eons of torment and death trying to get rid of.

We can even see his face go from sympathy because he knows what it's like to be Odin's forgotten son, he knows what like to just want it to end-

To rage because Thor gave him mercy as a brother.

It's even referenced in Al Ewing's current work.

In conclusion, when comes to sharing Thor's love with anyone he doesn't have to, Loki turns into Golum, or a hissing cat, whichever you prefer.