STORY: Duane Swierczynski
ART: Travel Foreman
COVER: Patrick Zirchir
PUBLISHER: Marvel Comics
PRICE: $2.99
RELEASE DATE: Thurs, May 28, 200

This week's pick serves a dual purpose.  

I'm not only picking this book because of what I think is the product of a great collaborative effort between Duane Swierczynski and Travel Foreman, but also because it is at something of an empass.  The book will suspend publication for a while for a series of one-shots featuring the Immortal Weapons.  I look forward to that, actually, because I have really enjoyed Swierczynski's one-shots that have been peppered throughout the series and I do like how he has developed the weapons from what could have been a sort of bland "Bloodsport"-type arc into a nice supporting cast of characters. 

So, while this is not dire straights for the book, it should be a call to arms.  This book needs us reading it.  More of us.  Lots of us.  Tell you're friends and relatives, neighbors, lovers, and facebook non-entities.  If you're looking at your pull list wondering if you should finally drop that JSA or Wolverine Origins book the answer is a resounding "yes."

And you should replace it with The Immortal Iron Fist. 

Danny Rand is a complex, interesting, entertaining, funny, and (to use a Ted-ism) sick looking character and I don't think it will be long before we all stop saying that the current team is almost as good as Brubaker/Fraction and Aja and start saying that they are just as bloody good and what a hell of a job they did at making this book their own. 

-Incidentally if you haven't bought the first Brubaker/Fraction/Aja Iron Fist trade you really should-

So, a great book to pick up this week and one that you should definitely start taking a look at consistently.  It's more than a Kung Fu action book, it's a superhero book with a superhero who very often kicks people in the face. 

If that's not an A+ concept, I don't know what is

Pick it up!

See you in the Future,

AS