I thought the 1st collection of this was pretty good. This one felt monotonous to me. Fight after fight with little to it. At the end there is an issue for each of the 6 immortals that is actually rather interesting. I enjoyed the stories. At the end was a story about Danny and a student which didn't have good art, but it was a good story. I enjoyed that. I didn't know if I was going to make it through the first part of this story. I think this saved the collection from being a 1 star for me. Th...

Don't get me wrong this isnt a bad novel or collection. It just doesnt compare to Vol 1. I think if this had been a solo novel without Vol 1 it would have held up on its own. The main storyline was cool with the 8th city, a short solo story of standalone fist, and a few immortal weapon short story arcs, haha I really enjoy Fat cobra. It just didnt hit the amazing highs of Vol 1. Fraction and Brubaker just knock that Vol out of the park. Probably isnt necessary to read if you want the Vol 1 story...

This is the riveting conclusion to the new Immortal Iron Fist collection.Here, we have collected the following:Two decent stories about Orson Randal, one of which was significantly better than the first. I enjoyed the noir, almost Sin City-esque tone to the "Death Queen of Hollywood" story, but the tale of him and John Aman came up lacking for several reasons... not least of which was for its odd inclusion out of sequence with the rest of the stories. It would have served much better being read...

Not as good as the first collection, but that's because the first collection was written by Brubaker & Matt Fraction.

In preparation for Netflix's newest addition to the Marvel tv lineup, I figured it was high time I finished this run of Iron Fist. I'd thoroughly enjoyed Brubaker & Fraction's The Immortal Iron Fist: The Complete Collection Vol. 1, but since volume two was something I had to track down piece by piece on my Marvel Unlimited account, laziness won out and I'd just never gotten around to reading the rest of this thing.Then THIS:So, yeah. The prospect of seeing a dude with a glowing fist on televisio...

Yes, there are all sorts of snide comments to be made of "THE Complete Collection" (emphasis mine) requiring a second volume. Let's just accept that it's comic book logic and move on.Sadly, Volume 2 mainly dilutes the impact of Volume 1, which deepened the mythology of the series and set the groundwork for new directions. Volume 2 brings in Duane Swierczynski on the writing. It's not bad, but just not as interesting as Fraction and Brubaker's work on Volume 1. Essentially they created a new back...

Man, there must be a doctorate thesis-level of material in here about the Asia is portrayed in American comics. Honestly, I don't know what I feel about it. Like the last volume, the writing and art are terrific. Most of the stories are legitimately great, though the sections that are about previous Iron Fists or the other Immortal Weapons and NOT Danny Rand are much, much better than the stuff about him. Taken on its own, this is high-quality comic book writing, but it's also amazing that you c...

I was worried about a dropoff from Brubaker. There probably was, but this was still good.It seems like a lot of Iron Fist stories are about the secrets behind the myths of K'un-Lun. This makes sense once or twice. But you figure at some point, one of the people who has lived there forever (because they're all immortal) would just put together a comprehensive history and tell the Iron Fist so everyone stops being surprised. The other immortal weapons sure are interesting. It would be cool if one

Hit and miss here. The first story-line dealing with all Iron Fists dying at age thirty-three was all right. The second story line dealing with the "eighth city" was pretty darned good, actually. The rest of the book was weak. The long series of short stories about the various immortal weapons just weren't up to snuff. They were varying degrees of creative, but I didn't pick up the book to read about them.

When Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker moved on from this title, I really hoped that Marvel would have gone in a different direction:Tiger’s Beautiful Daughter….and the occasional appearance of Iron FistWenches in Waiting: the Complete Illustrated HistoryWild West Cowgirl Hookers: The Reckoning!!Kung Fu with Misty Knight and Colleen Wing: Naked If You Want To But after the restraining order I can’t get within 50 miles of a Marvel employee in order to bum rush them with my great ideas.The knee jerk r...

I was a bit concerned about the Brubaker and Fraction-less continuation of this series, but Swierczynski did not disappoint. I am not familiar with his comic book writing so I didn't know what to expect. We find out why most Iron Fists have not survived longer than their 33rd birthday and then Danny learns about the 8th Celestial City. We also get an issue on each of the Immortal Weapons, exploring those characters for a bit; some of those issues are better than others. All in all it was a good

They say that a writer is nothing more than an inspired reader. That certainly rings true to me, whether it’s actually true or not, I don’t know. I say that because I’ve read almost nothing inspiring to me lately. And so I'm a wannabe writer that hasn't been writing. I did read a very good book recently about a serial killer in 1930’s Ukraine, but it wasn’t the sort of novel that made me lay awake and dream of the storytelling possibilities. So I’ve been going where the ‘inspiring’ stuff leads m...

This collection started off strong, following up from the previous volume with the search for the mysterious Eighth City. This whole arc is really pretty good and occupies about half the matter of the book. It is a good conclusion to the story from the previous volume and ties together nicely. However, the second half of the book is somewhat patchier.For a start, the artwork starts going all over the place again - which I had a problem with in the previous volume. For the most part, the change i...

3.25 stars. So the main story here is 9 issues. I was definitely into it. Enjoyed the whole idea of a Mysterious hidden 8th city. Danny and the other immortal weapons have been looking for it and find out that it is real. Then they discover the history behind and decide to go in and do what needs to be done. I was actually really into this story, it was just the end the kind of felt empty to me. Not enough closure to satisfy me. The end didn’t match the intensity of the journey to get there. The...

Another great volume, following the further adventures of Danny Rand, AKA Iron Fist, one of the Immortal Weapons. This volume starts out with someone gunning for Iron Fist with a supernatural zeal, and willing to go at it from any angle he can get. There's a reason almost no Iron Fists have lived past a certain point in their life, and this being? Is largely why. Then Iron Fist learns more about the mythical Eighth City and with the other Immortal Weapons, heads there - only to find way more wai...

After a fun and exciting first collection, introducing additional Immortal Weapons, giving history to the fictional city of K'un L'un, and revealing every Iron Fist died or disappeared at the age of 33 (the age Danny Rand just turned) and there was a mysterious eighth mystical city...the Iron Fist title got a completely new creative team to handle the rest of the tale. It goes about as well as can be expected. While this volume wasn't bad, it also wasn't as good as the first one.

It was ok. The story wasn't that great. The art went back and forth from good to terrible. Overall the collection was good. Vol. 2 just wasn't that good. The best story was Dog Brother's back story.

When a guy punches a train to death, there's very little to do from then on, you would think... But Danny always finds things to punch! And I'm a sucker for people jumping out of windows, or catching people who were thrown out of windows. I'm always like "Aww..."

While I really enjoyed the first volume of this series, this follow-up left me a little cold. If you are sold on the mythology that they have built and love the characters, this is a great book to read. But if, like me, you really only love the classic 70s stuff, then this may not be your thing.

First Half Rating - 3.5/5Second Half Rating - 2.5/5