A fast-paced kung-fu adventure would have been so generic. Doesn’t that just describe every other martial arts-based manga ever made? How can you not appreciate the imagination and thought in Iron Fist’s stories? I hope you play Street Fighter IV with Painy so he can lay down a righteous whooping with Sagat.
Where’s Clinty? That guy loves getting fisted every month.
I don’t know, it’s so hard to pick out anything that hasn’t been awesome throughout the entire run of Iron Fist so far. Especially when you hold it up against the standards of other “fast-paced kung-fu adventures.”
This is a great book for normal superhero standards, forget kung-fu books which are normal pure ass.
I can’t even really name any decent kung-fu books from like the last five years…
That Richard Dragon monthly was decent at best (even though Chuck Dixon and Scott McDaniel would pretty much be my dream team for a kung-fu book) and it got canned in 12 issues. Every Connor Hawke mini that’s came out has been sucky, Batgirl books have been terrible since the original team left her monthly like twenty years ago, and Bronze Tiger’s Suicide Squad stuff was completely forgettable.
Taskmaster’s UDON mini was good, but that was back in 2002…Daredevil’s had some cool kung-fu stories here and there…but that’s about it.
Like…the competition for good kung-fu adventures is pretty slim.
This Iron Fist series might very well be one of the greatest kung-fu adventure in comics I can think of right now. I can’t think of a single thing to complain about it, everyone should buy it.
Jesus, if I knew you guys were all into the spirit of Shou-Lao K’un L’un Lei Kang the Thunderer BS I wouldn’t said anything >_>
I’m up to when Spider-Man met Quicksilver. For X-Men I read when they met the Avengers for the first time. I’ll read the first X-Men Annual next since they reprinted the X-Men/Avengers story and only added 10 new pages. Recycling… :looney:
Yeah for Spidey what takes long is the dialog and the 2 letters pages each issue. Oh and Stan’s Soapbox, the crazy ads and everything else lol! It takes me like 40 minutes or more to read one issue where nowadays I can get through a comic in 10 minutes or less.
I will probably pick up the Hulk DVD-Rom later this year. Maybe Fantastic Four later on.
Out of my hands honestly. You can post in the Mod Suggestion Thread in General and hope for the best.
How much have you read? You didn’t dig the tournament with the Immortal Weapons from the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven? I mean, it even SOUNDS awesome. I thought that was one of the more wicked comic book stories I’ve read in a while - if there ever was a Street Fighter comic book (…), that’d be it!
There’s some crazy kung-fu action in every issue of this series, so there’s nothing boring about it…all the backstory and mythical mumbo jumbo give you great characters, and facilitate the top notch stories. Like all the great kung-fu adventure one shots…that’s all part of that Shau-Kung-Ping-Pong-Ching-Chong “BS”…and they are awesome, and pretty much exactly what you seem to be looking for.
But if you’re looking just for some brainless series full of ultra violent nonsense just for the sake of being ultra violent, then I would suggest…I don’t know, like Moonknight or something.
Or read Deadpool - that book is shit.
I just read that one 
, why don’t they ever talk to each other back then? It’s like “I could explain what’s going on or I could put up my dukes and possibly get my ass handed to me”
I think I just answered my own question.
Old comics are funny and you often get to see Hank Pym smack the hell out of his wife.
Ultraviolence? Just read Kick-Ass.
But it’s Millar so it’s great.
i hope your asian girlfriend leaves you for a white man
Gotcha, bitch.
Yes, that tournament does sound amazingly awesome. I don’t know, it should be awesome. Kung-Fu Masters fighting Hydra terrorist organization with predeccosor. I don’t know…I read the first 4, 5 issues and was like “eh”. I’ll give it another shot though.
But don’t talk shit about Deadpool. I actually like that book.
I’m a huge Millar fanboy, but I’m waiting for the trade for that one.
He only did it once as far as I can recall (616), so this really isn’t anything too hilarious if you didn’t know about it.
…and Lint hates good books, ignore anything he recommends:arazz:
…I have decided to not read the current arc of Loeb’s Hulk, the plot and how the characters were gathered were really…bizarre at best.
Loeb’s Hulk series is too wacky for me to read. I dislike the Hulk/Red Hul rivalry and I hate how he made the Hulk become all savage-like again
Reed Richards is the leader of the clubhouse when it comes to smacking bitches. Invisibility hides the bruises well.
Pym gets the reputation because hes a stinkin loser. The most successful thing he did was create Ultron! He’s fuck buddies right now with Jocasta who was made by his “son” Ultron to be his robot wife, who patterened Jocasta’s brain on Janet who just died. Awesome guy!
At the end of the current issue, Hulk regains the ability to talk like a normal person.
Oh and Loeb disregarded Ciera in this current arc:wasted:
I still need to read Kick-Ass. I figure it’s one of Mark Millar’s books where he can just cut loose and do whatever the hell he wants in some ridiculous, overexaggerated story and it’d still make sense, so it should be pretty good.
Like in Wanted, how it was his own universe, and he could do anything he wanted, and did. No subtlety anywhere throughout the book, just fuck you this, fuck you that…that’s Mark Millar. Anyone who complained that it was too over the top and there was too much swearing or too much gratuitous violence or cursing or mentions of feces or rape or fucking or whatever…well I’m sorry, that’s Mark Millar. He does that in every single goddamn book. The reason Wanted was so great was that it was the only book in which it made sense to do so.
Like Wolverine: Enemy of the State, where he travels to some mystical ninja Hand city and kills literally THOUSANDS of ninjas, while strapped with jetpacks and Dragonball Z eye scanners and whatever? Yeah, way too over the top, just too insane of an envelope pushed way too hard just for the sake of pushing the envelope. Or Ultimates. Or Authority. Or whatever else he does, the man just doesn’t understand the concept of NOT going 210% with everything.
Claremont struggles because he can’t write a scene in which characters can’t help but explain everything through dialogue. (Wolverine jumping on top of a robot and stabbing him while saying “Well let’s just see how tough you are, bub, when I jump on top of you and slice you with my adamantium claws!”)
In the exact same way, Mark Millar can’t tell characterize someone without hitting you in the head with it every time they appear or tell a story without taking it to the utmost extreme, for absolutely no reason other than to make it extreme.
It’s not bad, actually.
Hasn’t been great by any stretches either - I just keep thinking about how much better the earlier runs with Joe Kelly and Gail Simone (Agent X and etc.) were.
And there’s so much text! It’s like Bendis wrote Deadpool…only there’s no real wit or great dialogue in it so it reads more like homework than anything. Honestly, like fifteen text bubbles in a page is way too much to read for a humour book.
There’s no plot development (because there’s no real plots in Deadpool), no character development (because…it’s Deadpool), so it’s just all gags…and you can’t pull those off with text. You’re better off reading like I don’t know, Voltaire or some shit better than this volume of Deadpool.
YES, I SAID IT
YES, THEY DESERVED TO DIE, AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL
Man, I’m just helping you! These are the books in which you should not waste your time and money reading, and instead, these are the books which will give you great pleasure reading instead for your hard earned time and money.
I’ve been there! I’ve paid my dues in crappy books, and I’ve found the better way! You don’t need to suffer as I did, like buying two issues of Dreamwave’s Transformers a month, you can skip all that!
Seriously, any Essential collection of Fantastic Four reads like Wifebeating for Dummys.
Man, the 60’s were awesome.
Mark Millar does go exteremely overboard, but thats just fine for superheroes IMO. Seeing Wolverine physcho crusher the Gorgan while flying 90mph on a jetpack is awesome. Hell, that even sounds awesome when I was typing it. Right now, I’m reading up on his FF run, and six issues in we got Nu-Earth(an entire new planet being built when the Earth dies), Anti-Galactus(a suit that looks like Galactus that Ree built and costs a billion dollars a second to run), the REAL Galactus(being used as a giant battery), and Human Torch going full-on Paris Hilton mode(someone actually mentions Paris Hilton in the book, instantly dating the material).
Also, that Claremont quote was perfect. “I, DeathReaper47, am amused at Carpent Lint’s ablity to apt terrible writers! I will reply with a message on SRK stating how witty his post was.”
Oh, and that New Avengers #50 is like…everything good and bad about Bendis. His dialog can be funny(Wolvie:“He’s my son…” Spidey:“You’ve had sex!?” which is even funnier becaue I’m pretty sure Peter Parker a virgin now >_>), his characters can have good moments(like with the pages drawn by different coresponding artists, everyone has deep thoughts about their lives and Wolverine is all like “Blargh kill 'em all! I don’t even know who the fuck this fucker is, but whatever!”), and even the badguys can be humorous(Sentry grabs Spider-WomanSentry: Ok, stop. Spider-woman zaps Sentry in the face, who is completely unfazedSentry: No seriously, stop.).
However, recycled scenes out the ass(three panels in a row!), one page where Osborn just stares at Spider-Woman’s breasts, and plenty of Bendis-Speak moments(“Yeah.” “Yeah?” “Yeah.” “Yeah…” WTF was that whole scene about?). He makes damn near everybody sound like Spider-man, which is cool when he’s writing ya know…Ultimate Spider-man, but not when you’re doing a teambook that needs team dynamics.
Ran across a good quote last night, wish I remembered what it was but a guy working at a newstand called another dude a boner. I know it has a completely different meaning back then but, seriously, who can’t laugh at that.
Millar FF is so good that even in the latest issue, they were on a trip in scotan and staying with a priest that goes by the name Hamish and it was still good
and in April the Master of Doom arc starts this is gonna kick ass (Millar kick ass’ get it?.. ill stop now///)