Comments on: Immortal Iron Fist #8

By: Baal

Baal — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:03:00 +0000

Prince of Orphans is Wendell Rand. There was. No. Body.

By: Sanlear

Sanlear — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:06:45 +0000

Everytime Iron Fist beats someone in the tournament, he should yell “Fatality” and rip their spines out. For entertainment value.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:27:36 +0000

Prince of Orphans won the last tournament, the one Orson didn’t participate in? That’s why he gets the pass?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:45:04 +0000

Bride of Nine Spiders over Dog Brother in 3 rounds. Any takers?

By: Sean Curley

Sean Curley — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:14:45 +0000

I guess the Prince of Orphans gets lucky, since there are only seven combatants, so there has to be one odd-man out.

By: joly

joly — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:23:17 +0000

fat cobra is the name of a porn shop in portland oregon. maybe mr. fraction buys dildo’s there?

By: doubledumbassonyou

doubledumbassonyou — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:47:26 +0000

Iron Fist is easily the Marvel Highlight of the Month for me. I’m totally drawn into the amalgam of mysticism, martial arts, and superhero-ness. I told my brother about this title and he shrugged it off, 8 issues later he too is in love.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:12:15 +0000

I believe the Arashikage hexagram is two dashes, line, two dashes, line, two dashes, and line, which is different than Lei Kung’s.

Check out this picture of the recent 25th Anniversary Storm Shadow figure:

http://cooltoyreview.com/photo.asp?image=/Hasbro/GIJoe/25thStormShadow/GIJoe25th-392.jpg

By: Brother129

Brother129 — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:36:20 +0000

I love you for reviewing this title. Iron Fist is like in the top 5 books Marvel is putting out right now in terms of quality. I think Fraction’s Punisher’s War Journal is pretty good too. So what’s up with The Order? Well, 2 out of 3 isn’t that bad….

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:14:42 +0000

P.S. Forgot to say “Knowing is half the battle!”

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:14:05 +0000

I had no idea that Iron fist was a member of the Arashikage Ninja clan�..does Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow know? Lei Kung must have been the one ninja we never saw in the G I Joe Marvel run.

Lei Kung wears Hexagram 30 of the I Ching, ‘Radiance.’ (According to the wiki, some of it’s variant transactions include “the clinging, fire” and “the net”. Its inner trigram is ? (? li2) radiance = (?) fire, and its outer trigram is identical. The origin of the character has its roots in symbols of long-tailed birds such as the peacock or the legendary phoenix.) The I Ching is a system of cosmology designed to understand and interpret the phenomena of the universe.

It’s really no surprise that Lei Kung would be into it, sharing, as he does a name with a legendary figure of Chinese mythology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_Kung

By: Mark I.

Mark I. — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:36:25 +0000

C’mon, the Prince of Orphans is SO obviously the Goddamn Batman.

Fat Cobra is a pretty sweet name. Dog Brother #1 isn’t bad either. I think that’s what Michael Vick used to call Marcus, actually…

By: Mike B

Mike B — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:47:43 +0000

I had no idea that Iron fist was a member of the Arashikage Ninja clan…..does Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow know? Lei Kung must have been the one ninja we never saw in the G I Joe Marvel run.

By: Sanlear

Sanlear — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:31:18 +0000

“The Immortal Fat Cobra” does have a ring to it.