4.5 starsWhoa! I loved this!Honestly, I've never really given much thought to Danny Rand, so I'd also never given much thought to digging any deeper into his story. I knew that he was Luke Cage's buddy, and I knew that he karate chopped bad guys with his flamey hand-thing. The End.I have to say, when Jeff first suggested this one as a buddy read, I was kinda wondering if he was punking me...again. Then I looked at the credits for this sucker. Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, and David Aja.Let me say

In this book, everybody was kung-fu fighting. Those cats were fast as lightning. In fact it was a little bit frightening. But they fought with expert timing. *ahem* Excuse me. I was humming that song the whole time I was reading this one.Ed Brubaker is rapidly becoming one of my favorite writer of comics, and he helped re-boot a B-level Marvel super hero here. Danny Rand became Iron Fist in a Shangri La- type city call K’un Lun where he learned marital arts and slayed a dragon to gain his powers...

So here I am, writing a 5 star review for an iron fist book. I know, I'm shocked too. Usually, I can't stand iron fist. He shows up to battering ram a situation and maybe act like a trust fund hippy and look completely out of place in his silly costume next to Luke cage. But here, in the extremely competent hands of Brubaker and Fraction iron fist has a place and a story. It's not a boring origin story but a tale of conflict and revolution on a large scale. And a bonus of great art from aja. Jus...

Nice! There's been a fair amount of buzz about this title, and I finally see why. Fraction's and Brubaker's intent was to reinvent Iron Fist to make him less obviously derivative of the 70's kung fu craze and bring him more fully into the modern era, to make him more of a standalone hero instead of being just Luke Cage's sidekick. As far as I can tell, they succeeded. So it turns out that Danny Rand is not the first person to wield the Iron Fist power, merely the latest in a long line, many of w...

If you told me a few months ago that one of the best graphic novel collections I’d read this year would be an Iron Fist collection, I’d probably skoff. Outside of Heroes for Hire and that time he got whalloped into orbit by a super-enraged Hulk, he’s always been a Meh kind of hero - someone who you acknowledge (“Hey, it’s Iron Fist. He knows Kung Fu. And when he hits people his fists and/or his feet glow. Where’s Psylocke?”), but never bother to look into. Then he subs in for Daredevil when that...

I don't remember when I read this the first time but I remember 2 guys in my comic book shop arguing which of Fraction's works were better: this one or Hawkeye. I couldn't choose then and I can't choose now. This collection is very, very different from Hawkeye. Hawkeye is very grounded and there's nothing really super about it. That works because that's who Clint Barton is and oddly enough, he's the perfect character for something like a Marvel Netflix series. Iron Fist is rooted in magic and my...

I'm not sure I've spent more than a moment or two thinking about Iron Fist before I started reading this. So I know know how much of what's in here is existing backstory and how much is reshaping. And I honestly don't really care. What's important here is that this is basically a good martial arts flick that ends on an interesting and potentially game changing cliffhanger. It's good work with a character who's been on the backburner for much of his history.

This was pretty dope!! This complete collection is massive. Damn near 500 pages of goodness. So much goes down in this book. We have Danny refusing a multi billion deal with this Xoa guy because Danny doesn’t like him. Then this guy decides to start buying up Rand stock trying to pull a hostile takeover. We have all the adventures of the previous Iron Fist, Orsen Randall, globetrotting with his band of misfits which includes Danny’s father, Wendal. Then we have the cool idea of the 6 other mysti...

Meh. I've never read any other Immortal Iron Fist. I think this collection was all I'll ever need/want from this character/story. It had it's moments, but overall I was not impressed. The whole time I was reading it I realized I wouldn't be all that sad or disappointed if the book was lost and I was never able to finish it. Worth checking out from the local library, though.

This book has the best authors and artists Marvel has to offer, and it still manages to be pretty racist. The parts of the storyline NOT relying on Asian mythology are good, but there's very little of that. Maybe it's time to retire this character.

2.5* I have been reading comics for many years now. Sadly, I was never a fan of Danny Rand. I thought Brubaker might have changed this fact. Nope. Great art and fine writing, just not my thing.

Every now and then I delve into graphic novels, which I have enjoyed so much since my childhood. Really loved going back into the Marvel world in this case. Iron Fist is such a great character.

This collection is more proof that there are potentially great stories in any character, not just the popular ones. Now-superstar writers Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction teamed up here to reboot Iron Fist, a Marvel character that had long since fallen to the wayside since his introduction during the kung fu exploitation phase of the 70's. Danny Rand, an orphan raised in the mystical city of K'un-L'un and taught kung fu, earns the power of the Iron Fist after plunging his hands into the heart of Sh...

4.5*This was nearly perfect. Such a cool story, great artwork and depth to the plot/characters. The team involved has to be one of the best ever formed. Theres alot of past info with previous Iron Fists, different clans, different weapons. Great action scenes. I can see where people had issues with the tv show. I feel like they didnt capture the real Danny Rand/Iron Fist. Whereas this novel gave us a realistic approach.

Bravo!

The Immortal Iron Fist is both a superhero and story that is difficult not to love. Between these covers the history and tradition of the Iron Fist is laid bare, and Danny Rand is forced to not only face the previous holder of the Iron Fist title, but also the champion's of the other Seven Cities of Heaven and what it means to hold the chi of Shou-Lao within him. This story was unique in many senses. In tracing back the history of the people who have been Iron Fist it warps history and pulls in

Yawn...I should be more excited about this collection, but I'm not. I thought I was excited when I first saw it on the "new" shelf in my library, a chance to get back to Danny Rand and Iron Fist after all these years. I go way back to Marvel Premiere 18, and somewhere down in the basement is Iron Fist 14 with the first appearance of Sabretooth (just about the only comic I have left worth any money after my dirtbag cousin pilfered them all in the '80s).But the return of the Steel Serpent and the

Jumbled and boring this story did nothing for me. Eager to learn more about iron fist before his show I grabbed this collection. By the creator of an amazing run on Hawkeye I was so ready. This shit was confusing and boring with some decent fight scenes thrown in. My advice is to get on sale or borrow.

There were plenty of things that bothered me throughout this book, so it actually gets like 3.5 stars.I felt like Matt Fraction (and, presumably, Ed Brubaker) was pulling off a miracle by making this book so much better than I expected it to be. Character histories are rewritten for the better. Tropes and cliches are turned on their head (as well as sometimes just played out in annoying and yet well-written ways).By the time I finished this collection (volume 1 of 2 Complete Collections which ha...

The first volume of a new era of the Immortal Iron Fist. I have always meant to check out Iron Fist, the cancellation of the Netflix series spurred me into reading this.This book acts as a good jumping on point for anyone interested in the world of Iron Fist. It introduces the character of Danny Rand aka Iron Fist, his origin and his relationships with other Marvel characters well. Especially his friendship with fellow hero Luke Cage.The story itself follows Danny reconnecting with the role of I...