tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post3690680742061065536..comments2024-03-27T11:32:34.392-07:00Comments on NOT A HOAX! NOT A DREAM!: MARVEL PREMIERE #17Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-17736756205827906932017-09-14T09:26:43.770-07:002017-09-14T09:26:43.770-07:00True enough; it's sometimes hard to take into ...True enough; it's sometimes hard to take into account the publishing schedule when reading all this stuff in a big chunk. I feel like if I were a kid reading this series every other month, I might be more forgiving than if I were a teen or an adult who expected more than just nonstop fighting out of the story.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-44495984569598554732017-09-11T22:31:27.926-07:002017-09-11T22:31:27.926-07:00// Still, I can't help feeling sorry for the p...<br><i>// Still, I can't help feeling sorry for the poor kids who lost precious minutes of their young lives to these first three IRON FIST installments back in 1974. //</i><br /><br />And precious money — 25¢ an issue, albeit every other month. <br /><br />I’m not sure whether the series’ bimonthly(ish) status would make the extremely slow crawl of the story more or less frustrating for anyone reading it in real time; on the one hand like unto a thing of iron, so little happens over an even longer stretch of time, but then again doled out like that the successive fight scenes in each issue might be exciting enough to feel like a satisfying chunk.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-58370829246220818252015-06-11T09:05:06.274-07:002015-06-11T09:05:06.274-07:00We learn next issue, I believe, that Triple-Iron w...We learn next issue, I believe, that Triple-Iron wears those sensors because he's powered by Meachum's computer. Still, though, I feel like a costume <b>over</b> the sensors might have looked a little better.<br /><br />I don't mind the semi-twist ending, and a story like this would not bug me nearly as much if there were sub-plots to visit every few pages, showing supporting cast members actually advancing some sort of overarching story. But since Iron Fist has no supporting cast yet (something Moench fixes pretty soon), that's just not possible. I almost with there <b>were</b> some flashbacks to K'un L'un here to break up the repetitiveness of the deathtraps.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-6414298168095907882015-06-09T09:45:56.931-07:002015-06-09T09:45:56.931-07:00makes his way upstairs, past multiple deathtraps, ...<i>makes his way upstairs, past multiple deathtraps, armed gunmen, more deathtraps, a wolf, another deathtrap, a katana-wielding janitor, and another deathtrap.</i><br /><br />A. I love the randomness of the wolf. <br />B. I really want to see Meachum's business manager or accountant or someone trying to justify to the Board that Meachum is not a super-villain despite all the expensive death traps he seemingly installed in his office building and the fact that he made HR hire a janitor with martial arts skills. <br /><br />Also, Triple Iron, a villain I've never heard of/encountered before, looks really stupid, like his costume is made of those little sensors you get stuck to your body during an EKG. <br /><br />There's something reasonably clever/entertaining to the twist that Iron Fist fights his way through a death trap laden building only to find, not his quarry, but yet another obstacle to overcome, but I agree it needs a bit more than just that twist to hang the issue on. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.com