To cheer me up, some Iron Fist

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It's a bit of a hodge-podge of a book, with a mishmash of artists, art styles, lead characters and stories, but The Book of the Iron Fist is worth a buy. Why? Because it has the tale of Wu Ao Shi, the Pirate Queen of Pinghai Bay (last seen in the Iron Man Annual).

Now, regular readers will know that Wu Ao Shi, the Pirate Queen of Pinghai Bay is one of my favourite characters. There's two reasons for this. a) Fraction/Brubaker tells her story really well and b) she's fucking ace. She's a female Iron Fist, but she's hard as fuck and yes, her fist has been plunged into the chest of Shou-Lao the Undying to make it Like Unto a Thing of Iron.

For background, Wu Ao Shi was saved from a beating by Lei Kung the Thunderer of K'un L'un and trained, but harshly. taught that life did not care if she thrived or starved, Wu Ao Shi met a fisherman who gave her fish. It was the first time that she was given anything. He later proposed to her using two silver rings that he found in a fish. She trains more, becomes the Iron Fist and their paths diverge for they are too different people.

Our story picks up just after she has taken on the mantle of the Iron Fist


It's OK to feel slightly soppy at this bit

I'm kind of peeved that he made a choice for her without talking about it with her.

Wu Ao Shi is unashamedly kickass
There's more, but this is a good moral to end on.

Comments

[fifthie]

"It's a bit of a hodge-podge of a book, with a mishmash of artists, art styles, lead characters and stories, but The Book of the Iron Fist is worth a buy. Why? "

Because it's excellent; a pretty much totally spectacular comic.

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I'd call the Last Iron Fist Story spectacular, just because of how good Aja is at kinetic storytelling.

I'm not sure that I'd call the Book of the Iron Fist Spectacular. Value for Money and diverse yes, but maybe not Spectacular.