Iron Fist Storytime Part 5

>>83496393
Take a drink every time a cover from the '70s has a villain saying "nothing can/will stop me now."

This was the era of standardized covers, everything had to have a villain attacking the hero, and dialogue.

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Knock it off Danny, you're not Batman.

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>>83496592
Well they couldn't have the hero be a dick to their supporting cast, people caught onto that after DC popularized Superdickery.

>>83496393
Who's worse, this guy or The Scythe?

>>83496618
Danny was going through his moody phase.

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Remember, Danny is supposed to be only 19. Did 19 year old men look like this in the 70's? His face looks to old, at least to me.

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>>83496710
Scythe. No question. Scythe is just some guy on the street. Scimitar looks like he's some exotic assassin or something.

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>>83496755
Wasn't that what happened in "The Living Weapon?"

I'm sorry, I'll stop picking on that series. Eventually. Maybe.

>>83496771
Most artists can't draw children, even more have trouble drawing teenagers, and almost all have trouble drawing young adults as distinct from adults.

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So, any bets on if this guy will make it into the Netflix series? A sympathetic former terrorist may be a bit much in a post-9/11 world. Imagine if they tried to be topical and made him Arab.

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Danny doesn't quite put the same amount of care as Peter Parker or Bruce Wayne do in protecting his secret identity.

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>The Master of Bladed Weapons

So, is there anybody else in Marvel that could lay claim to this title besides some forgettable early villain from a C-Lister?

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So their fight is fairly even, until suddenly
>train

>>83496901
You're not wrong.

That run was all about retreading past concepts. Andrews created a Meachum bastard child just so he could do his own take on the Joy Meachum arc.

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>>83497442
Her entire arc could've been avoided if she bothered to ask her half-sister about it.

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And back to Colleen.

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Well, this isn't good.

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>tfw thinking about your woman and then get taken from behind by some jackass in a mask

>>83497149
Wait.

I'm not a big fan and I'm enjoying these threads a lot, but I confess I wasn't paying attention to details. So correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Danny had green eyes?

>>83496984
You know how in a previous thread people pointed out how Vietnam vets that turned to terrorism being pitiful would not fly these days? I think it's similar here.

>>83497205
Swordman (Hawkeye's teacher)? Unless he came later.

>>83497635
Wait, is a woman getting brainwashed? I thought this was a Claremont comic.

>>83497149
I mean, most of his loved ones have black belts.

>>83497205
...Swordsman?

>>83497850
This was back when an exceedingly competent colorist remembered to not color black people as white. Blue eyes were considered 'default', so pretty much everyone had them from time to time, even non-Caucasians who statistically shouldn't have them.

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>>83497893
That's a shame. Later on, Danny being friends with a former terrorist ends up being a source of drama.

>>83497762
>The Living Weapon Versus the Woman He Loves!
I know Colleen was basically the main love interest by default up til now, but isn't this overselling it a bit?

>>83497918
Claremont's all about women getting brainwashed and evil.

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I'm sure you can see how it would be a problem with Misty, at least.

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>>83498185

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For those of you who saw the Jessica Jones Netflix show, the lesbian lawyer is based on this guy. Unlike her, he's only a dick at worst, and not... you know, kind of evil.

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>>83498166
It's a comic book cover, of course it's overselling it. But remember, Danny and Misty doesn't officially become a thing until later in the run.

>>83498303
Which is too bad, Jeryn being kind of sleazy but not evil is pretty good for comedy.

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>>83497911
>>83497959
Wow, I can't believe I forgot about that guy.

>>83498409
Honestly, I mainly remember him for being an avatar for a space tree that wanted to fuck Mantis in Celestial Madonna. At least, I think that's what happened.

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As has been mentioned a few times, Claremont's run continued the trend of making K'un Lun less of the paradise it seemed, now by Yu-Ti more corrupt.

>>83496393
Oh boy! Time for more Kung-Fu Treachery!

>>83498513
So far, Lei Kung and those two people that got eaten by plant monsters are basically the only people from K'un-L'un that seem decent.

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And we're actually getting a bit of backstory on Yu-Ti.

>>83498409
Understable. Everyone remembers Trickshot, it's more linkable with him being an archer and all that. But because of that, it's hard to link him to Swordsman.

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>>83498585
The Thunderer is consistently one of the most moral men in K'un Lun, even across different writers.

>>83498603
Definitely, Yu Ti is a dick since year one.

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In addition to being a Swordswoman, Colleen is also skilled with shuriken and a Naginata.

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And nunchucks. Or nunchaku? Which is it?

Maybe it's the liquor and the fact I was watching Fatal Fury the Motion Picture, but the idea of Cage, IF and the Daughters of the Dragon involved against Gesse Howard sounds utterly awesome.

>>83498791
>>83498859
A Mistress of all slant-eye weaponry, regardless of nation of origin.,

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And as was mentioned a few threads ago, here is how Iron Fist manages to save Colleen from her brainwashing.

>>83498859
Nunchaku is more proper, but nunchucks is more fun to say. Also, sai >>83498791 which means she just needs to use a bo staff to be more skilled than all of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles combined.

>>83498936
The Dragon's Chi is like Speedforce, Danny ain't gotta explain shit.

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Damn it Claremont, you don't need to make this so rapey. It's the 70's, Star Trek exists. We already know about the Vulcan Mind Meld.

>>83498911
>none of Marvel's kung fu characters are big enough to make it into a fighting game
Sad.

>>83499009
3/4 of fighting game combatants are relative unknowns except to hardcore fans of the game.

It'd be easy to put together 16 martial arts types.

>>83499005
>Damn it Claremont, you don't need to make this so rapey.
Doesn't he though?

>>83499005
>Claremont,
>don't need to make this so rapey.

Pick one, and only one.

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>>83498995
One the things Claremont explicitly wanted to do when he started to write Iron Fist was come up with new and unique ways to use the Iron Fist power outside of "strong punches".
For those of you who likes Immortal Iron Fist's making new Chi abilities, Claremont set the stage for those ability in this run.

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>>83499009
Anon. Iron Fist was in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

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I have a 12 hour shift in the morning, so let's finish up with this issue, and hope that's the end of the arc.

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So, let's play a game Anons. What exactly was Master Khan's plan?

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Holy shit, Scimitar's back in the last panel!

Wait, no. That's just some other guy with a scimitar.

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And now we basically have the Colleen we all know and love, the badass with a sword.

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I don't know much about swordsmanship, but I get the feeling that a scabbard isn't exactly good for blocking. At the very least, it would get damaged over time.

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So, is she supposed to have slit his damned throat? That's friggen hard core.

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We're almost halfway through the issue for the cover villain to appear.

>>83496393
Hey hey.
I just watched the first episode of Jessica Jones, because I'd been seriously putting it off, because fuck Bendis.

Man, Luke Cage, Bar Owner, seems like a weird move.

>>83496618
It's comic books.
Everyone is Batman, even if they aren't.

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>Crimson Bands of Cyttorak

So we finally have some measure of Master Khan's abilities, and he's a Sorcerer like Doctor Strange, although likely not anywhere near his level.

>>83499531
>Osama-san
Heh.

>>83496671
Wow, jeeze. It HAS been a long time since Colleen got taken, narration box.

>>83499600
>forcibly retired after six years service
So even assuming Misty became a cop right after high school and her accident was less than a year ago, she has to be at least 24.

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Speaking of Master Khan's abilities, he can even casually open up portals to K'un Lun.

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>>83496771
>His face looks to old, at least to me.

Well, chances are it's been punched more than the average 19 year old's face.

And any premature aging is negated by that fine tactical turtleneck.

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>Yu-Ti killed Danny's father

DUN DUN DUN

>>83499355
To make Iron Fist die as he must.

>>83499841
Master Khan doesn't like Megadeth?

>>83496984
I don't know how well the IRA would translate to more modern terrorists.

While Claremont and Byrne were both English, this comic IS being written for an American audience that was never in danger of Irish terrorism.

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And that's it for the night, Anons. See you tomorrow.

>>83500092
KHAAAAAAAAN

>>83497552
So, Banshee in a fro wig here is feeling kinda sketchy by the end of this page.

>>83497762
Man, having Yu-Ti on the cover here demanding someone die kinda gives it away that he's not that great a guy, huh?

I mean, more so than that flashback issue with the brainwashing and the plant monsters.

>>83497821
Halwan is maybe the most unplaceable fictional country I've seen in comics.

It's what, like Azerbaijan or something? There are a lot of lily white Muslims in Halwan.

>>83498409
What was that you were claiming about Danny not being Batman?

In seven pages he's gone from "Martial artist with parental revenge issues" to "Martial artist with parental revenge issues, an inherited fortune, and a glider backpack"

All he's missing is an ex-SAS surgeon as his butler and a fancy Iron Fistmobile.

>>83500515
Arabs weren't always colored in brown.

>>83498936
>here is how Iron Fist manages to save Colleen from her brainwashing.
By apparantly giving her an orgasm from a head massage.

>>83499005
When did the Daughters of the Dragon magazine stories run? Was it concurrent to this? Or after?

>>83499279
Pfft. There is but one TRUE KHAN of the Marvel Universe, and his name is Woo Yen Jet.

>>83499398
The real question is what the hell is Fandral doing there?

>>83500146
>Chaka, Crime Lord of New York

Hello, character that I feel probably escaped from the Blaxploitation++ version of Luke Cage I had in my head.

Well, I assume, with that name.

>>83501315
Nah, it's in Chinatown. It's totally a Kung Fu gang.

>>83501012
>When did the Daughters of the Dragon magazine stories run? Was it concurrent to this? Or after?

The miniseries called "Daughters of the Dragon" was released in 2005, and that was a comic. What you may be thinking of is the mag "Deadly Hands of Kung Fu" where they had a part in it. I mentioned a few threads earlier that I'll do the entire series eventually, but I never actually said when I would, so I'll say it now.

I'll be going through the entire Deadly Hands of Kung Fu series as soon as I finish this series, before we go back to "Power Man and Iron Fist". We'll start Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu on Tuesday Night.

>>83496771
In the last "Storytime" Misty says it's 1975, so I assume it's a year later, or at least a birthday passed. So, he's 20. But, yeah, Danny always had a rather old face.

>>83497850
It seems to switch all the time, but recent depictions have him with green eyes. I.e. The Living Weapon, Ultimate Spider-Man, ANAD Powerman & Iron Fist. Newer arcs and media may be solidified as blue, though, since Finn's casting. We'll see.

>>83496901
What do you think of ANAD? Because, Danny's personality is radically different, but then again, it's probably the aftermath of TLW.

Bamp

>>83505862

>>83498936

Danny with that Fist of the North Star insanity.

>>83503817
Not to fight you on it, but the Misty & Colleen stories in Deadly Hands of Kung Fu were named Daughters of the Dragon, weren't they?

>>83509909
Wasn't Deadly Hands an anthology mag?

>>83497821
>Daria

Why a bitter mopey four-eyed teen, dude? Jodie or Quinn would be a better choice.

>>83499836
Danny is really bad at this "missing persons" thing. He keeps getting sidetracked.

>>83496834
Scythe is waaaay better than the Scimitar.

>>83498962

Were it longer, I'd have said three-section-staff.

>>83496901
>He's only one man!

Famous last words.

>>83497205
Silver Samurai, Swordsman, Mariko's dad.

>>83499810

I dunno -- isn't Crimson Bands a ninth-level spell?

>>83513179
Classic Strange dropped epic magic like it was going out of style.

>>83504367
I wouldn't mind if they stuck to Finn Jones' looks /
(curly short hair, blue eyed), but I think green or even hazel suit more the character, I don't know why.

>>83498513
>>83498603
And now I find myself remembering that Danny's mom died just a stone's throw away from K'un Lun.

>>83499355
Kill Iron Fist, kidnap the Princess, take over Halwan. Fuck bitches, get money.

>>83514552
Depending on the wind and how your throwing arm is, perhaps literally.

>>83513552
I hope future artists at least adopt the curls, they're fucking adorable.

>>83514730
It doesn't seem like killing Iron Fist was a bullet point until he started getting in the way.
And Colleen isn't a princess.

>>83517441
Agreed, very much.

>>83519973
Princess Azir. Kidnapping Colleen was part of the "kill Iron Fist."

Bamp

>>83523286