The Immortal Iron Fist & The Immortal Weapons Omnibus

The Immortal Iron Fist (Collected Editions) #1-6

by Ed Brubaker, David Aja (Artist), Travel Foreman (Artist)

Iron Fist is explored like never before in these epic adventures steeped in fable, magic and hard-hitting martial arts action! After learning the hard way that the Iron Fist's centuries-spanning legacy holds more secrets than he ever dreamed, Danny is called to K'un-Lun to fight in a tournament against the Immortal Weapons of the Seven Capital Cities of Heaven! But can he ferret out a conspiracy against K'un-Lun? Plus: The noir adventures of Orson Randall, the previous Iron Fist - and amazing solo tales of the fan-favorite Immortal Weapons! Collecting IMMORTAL IRON FIST #1-27 and ANNUAL #1, IMMORTAL IRON FIST: ORSON RANDALL AND THE GREEN MIST OF DEATH, IMMORTAL IRON FIST: THE ORIGIN OF DANNY RAND, IMMORTAL IRON FIST: ORSON RANDALL AND THE DEATH QUEEN OF CALIFORNIA, IMMORTAL WEAPONS #1-5, IMMORTAL WEAPONS SKETCHBOOK and material from CIVIL WAR: CHOOSING SIDES and I AM AN AVENGER #1.

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Superheroes, Comic Book, Graphic Novels

1048 pages, Hardcover

First published November 25, 2009

About the author

Ed Brubaker (born November 17, 1966) is an Eisner Award-winning American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.

Brubaker is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Fist, Catwoman, Gotham Central and Uncanny X-Men. In more recent years, he has focused solely on creator-owned titles for Image Comics, such as Fatale, Criminal, Velvet and Kill or Be Killed.

In 2016, Brubaker ventured into television, joining the writing staff of the HBO series Westworld.

Reviews

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Immortal Iron Fist is a solid Omnibus though not a great one for me.

The first half is Ed Brubaker and Fraction's run on Iron Fist. Basically Danny having to return home while also dealing with Hydra, while also dealing with the Immortal weapons, while trying to protect his friends and family. Juggling a whole shit load of storylines. I do think that the first arc is great, high speed action, and throws Danny RIGHT into the action. The second arc is decent, mostly Danny dealing with Hydra and their leader. And it's fun but nothing special for me. The final arc is short, and it focuses on Danny going back to living a normal life, setting up his funds to help people, and teaching kids how to fight in a Dojo.

The second half is created by Duane, and I'm not going to butcher his last name but you can see it on the cover, and it's actually more entertaining overall for me. A creature that has hunted the Iron Fist forever is here to kill Danny after Danny learns almost every Iron Fist dies by 33 and he turns 33 in that arc. Leaving for a very fun fight to the near death and then Danny teaming up with friends to stop this creature. The second arc is Danny going with the Immortal weapons into a hell like world to stop them from invading. It's pretty brutal, but the safe ending kind of takes away the steam roll it had.

The book ends with Immortal Weapons each getting a issue to explain their past. Some are excellent like Fat Cobra, Dog Brother, or Tiger's Beautiful Daughter where's Orphan and Spider story were okay.

Overall, it feels uneven for me. There's some great parts, some really weak parts, but mostly it's decent to good. And that's kind of where my score is going. A lot of the volumes I gave a 3, and two volumes a 4, but I think the one shots here with showing the past immortal iron fist range from good to outright bad, and a origin story that was unneeded.

So overall I will rate Immortal Iron Fist Omnibus a 3 out of 5.

[Joakim Ax · Rating 2 out of 5]

To be honest. I did not finnish reading this book. That is not what you want to start of your review with.

There were artwork and storied that stood out. Partially written by Ed Brubaker. But it did not have the strength to carry the whole book.

I think I had to high hopes for this, finally getting to read the material.

[R E · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story is largely interesting, expanding on the Iron First mythos. We’re introduced to the 7 heavenly cities, not just K’un L’un, each of which has its own Immortal champion, and all of these cities are the focus of a new Hydra goon. Davos is back, but his character arc is given more depth. That said, this was written and drawn before the Black Lives Matter movement and I wonder if the writer and artists would have made some of the same decisions if this had come out afterwards.

Most of the artwork is either brilliant or at least moodily sketchy and forceful. It doesn’t quite hit the heights of Frank Miller’s Daredevil-moodiness, but it works.

The artist for parts 3-5 of the penultimate “Caretakers” story, Hatuey Diaz, delivers perhaps the absolute worst comic artwork I have ever seen. I’ve literally taught middle school students who can put this artist to shame. Jaw-droppingly horrendous and flat-out ugly. It does a huge disservice to an otherwise poignant story - in fact, the artwork guts the story’s intended complexity. Along with the hideous artwork of the Iron First Annual included in this omnibus, this represents the port-o-potty low of the artwork collected in this book - and, indeed, the low of any professional comics artwork I have ever seen (and I’ve seen a lot). If Marvel was going to put out this schlock, they’d have done better hiring one of the drawing 1 freshman from the college where I teach. And I’m not judging by a strictly representational ruler. I embrace and enthusiastically champion non-representational art and the sometimes head-scratchingly bizarre contemporary work many freshman students find revolting or befuddling. I embrace many aesthetics. But schlock is schlock and the Caretakers story deserved so much more.

[Adam Wood · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow, this book is the definition of a roller coaster. Ed Brubaker's first arc and a half on this book are absolutely stellar- so many moving parts to it. Introducing Orson Randall and his history, John Aman and his, and all the immortal weapons and the capital cities of heaven and the revolution. Truly fantastic stuff. Had the run ended there, this would've gotten 5 stars. The second arc, whilst truly an interesting premise set up by brubaker, it slightly misses the mark, making it a slight step down from the first arc. The last arc however, I found really boring and uninteresting, and seemed cliche and uninventive considering what had come before. The immortal weapons mini was interesting enough- I liked learning the origins of all these characters. Unfortunately tho, the third arc here and some of the one shots let this collection down, so I'm giving it a generous 4 stars considering how excellent the first 2/3 are. But a 3.5 is more realistic for the last third of the book.

[Rahul Nadella · Rating 5 out of 5]

Is it worth it? It's really hard to swallow the price of any omnibus these days, but considering the length, considering the quality of story telling, the quality of the art it is a great value for money. This omnibus feels like the spiritual rebirth of 70s kung fu movies in which Iron Fist has been successfully contemporized. To sum it all up, I can't recommend this book enough. The combination of great writing and great art resulted in one artistic work that has right off the bat exerted some kind of mesmerization over me. Though if you are on the fence, I'd highly recommend first going to a local bookstore or comic shop and browsing through the first issue of The Immortal Iron Fist.

[Eric Grover · Rating 5 out of 5]

Biased Review

This entire comic run is amazingly well written with amazing art to accompany it from Aja, and Swierczynski. This run modernizes Danny rand in the marvel universe while also providing K'un-L'un and the previous Iron fists Succinct lore that makes you wish you were reading about them at times. with this run being published in the smack dab of civil war there are story beats that might otherwise leave readers confused if they havent read that event. Despite that, this run serves its story completely through its own issues without needing background knowledge, its a great jumping on point for Iron fist and my favorite comic book run of all time. (probably)

[Graeme · Rating 3 out of 5]

A mixed bag of a book for me. I can’t say I didn’t enjoy my time with it but I wanted much more. The action focused stories were all great and the side jumps to the other immortal weapons and past iron fists were good but I found myself wanting more from Luke and Misty especially. The relationship between Misty and Danny feels very underdeveloped here and it could’ve been a much harder hit at the end if it had more time.

[Andy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Couldn't finish it, got about halfway and it became such a chore to read I had to give up.

The first couple of issues had promise, but the jarring art changes and some truly dull writing really sank this one for me.

[Steven Latour · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent run in the Iron Fist mythos. I particularly enjoyed the addition of the Immortal Weapons, and I wish there were more stories featuring them.

[Julio Valentin · Rating 4 out of 5]

First half is pretty good, after that is ups and downs. The change in art is jarring

[Loki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gorgeous art and some of Marvel's best writers create the definitive Iron Fist story. This is what the Netflix series should have been.

[Anthony Rizzie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first part of the book by Fraction (and Brubaker for most of it) is far superior, but I did enjoy seeing where the story went from there. I don't regret reading this book in the slightest, but I expect I would only ever reread that first chunk through #16.