Comments on: Fat Pants July 2007

By: Ovid

Ovid — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:34:11 +0000

You know, I read the hardcover, and I don’t remember the CHOOSING SIDES story in there. But maybe I’m just not remembering. Was it written by Fraction and/or Brubaker?

Yes, and illustrated by Aja. According to some online reviews, it was a ‘gritty’ Hells Kitchen story about Iron Fist and DD.

No IRON FIST SPECIAL that I’m aware of, other than the upcoming annual with Chaykin and Brereton.

Thanks - that must be what I was thinking of.

By: Jeff Vice

Jeff Vice — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:15:35 +0000

I’m totally feeling the “NextWave,” “Immortal Iron Fist,” “The Hood” and “Union Jack” love as well. And just to prove I’m not just a Marvel Zombie, let me recommend Steven “Ribs” Weissman’s “Mean,” from Fantagraphics. It collects a lot of his older “Yikes!” work. “Peanuts” meets “The Addams Family.” Yeah!

By: Randy Lander

Randy Lander — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:58:41 +0000

The IRON FIST HC solicitation says that the book includes the story from CIVIL WAR: CHOOSING SIDES. Is that the H4H story? The TPB solicit only mentions IRON FIST ##1-6. So there may well be a content difference there.

You know, I read the hardcover, and I don’t remember the CHOOSING SIDES story in there. But maybe I’m just not remembering. Was it written by Fraction and/or Brubaker?

Also, I have a vague memory of a IRON FIST SPECIAL coming out. Is that right? Is it included?

No IRON FIST SPECIAL that I’m aware of, other than the upcoming annual with Chaykin and Brereton.

By: Ovid

Ovid — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:14:51 +0000

The IRON FIST HC solicitation says that the book includes the story from CIVIL WAR: CHOOSING SIDES. Is that the H4H story? The TPB solicit only mentions IRON FIST ##1-6. So there may well be a content difference there.

Also, I have a vague memory of a IRON FIST SPECIAL coming out. Is that right? Is it included?

By: Dan Grendell

Dan Grendell — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:41:23 +0000

Even though I’ve never had real fondness for the character (not that I disliked him, just never cared much), all the stuff I’ve heard about Immortal Iron Fist makes me really interested. But is an HC worth it? Doesn’t this just collect the first arc? I’m kinda puzzled since Marvel HCs mainly collect at least somewhere in the neighborhood of twelve issues, unless it’s a miniseries, and Iron Fist is an ongoing (right?). I dunno, it just sounds like a much better option to just wait for either the softback or a big twelve-issue HC, since that’s more a win-win (unless I get terribly impatient ).

This is one of Marvel’s Premiere hardcovers, which are just no-frills hardcover versions of books they are going to release in trade a couple months later. Some, like Nick, prefer to have a hardbound version even if there are no extras and it’s small, so this is up their alley. Others, like Randy and I, would rather pass on hardcovers unless they have sexy designs, are oversized, sport tons of extras, or all of the above, and we just wait for the softcover version. To each their own, by which I mean Nick is wrong.

But yes, this just collects the first six issues of Iron Fist, and a softcover version is coming in, I believe, October.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:19:44 +0000

Even though I’ve never had real fondness for the character (not that I disliked him, just never cared much), all the stuff I’ve heard about Immortal Iron Fist makes me really interested. But is an HC worth it? Doesn’t this just collect the first arc? I’m kinda puzzled since Marvel HCs mainly collect at least somewhere in the neighborhood of twelve issues, unless it’s a miniseries, and Iron Fist is an ongoing (right?). I dunno, it just sounds like a much better option to just wait for either the softback or a big twelve-issue HC, since that’s more a win-win (unless I get terribly impatient ).