What I Bought 3/17/2021 - Part 2

Depressingly, but not surprisingly, there are still a lot of people in this state with their "Trump 2020" flags flying in their front yards. Or their "Trump's face superimposed on Rambo's body" flags. I would ask when these folks are gonna get over it, but the answer is "never."

So instead of talking about people being idiots, let's talking about comic book characters fighting undead ninjas. Much more interesting.

Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon #3, by Larry Hama (writer), Dave Wachter (artist), Neeraj Menon (color artist), Travis Lanham (letterer) - Like Deadpool, Okoye knows all giant lizard monsters have a critical blind spot on top of their heads.

Having temporarily kept that door shut, Danny realizes that maybe bringing cities brimming with undead ninjas into populated areas unprepared for their arrival was a bad idea. So he, Luke, and the Bride of Nine Spiders split up to try and keep anyone near the cities from killing the dragons. Someone named Radiance in Tokyo gives Danny a little guff, but agrees to leave the dragon alone as long as he helps her kill the undead. Easy enough. 

Luke goes to Rio, where Sunspot cops a real attitude about how he got pulled away from basically running space to deal with this. Okay DaCosta, don't let the fact Hickman's taking a liking to you give you a swelled head. He changes his tune once Luke proves very effective at killing the undead. Wachter even makes sure to give us more undead being hit with their own severed limbs. And he wanted to make sure burning corpses don't start brush fires, so that's cool. 

 

Bride of Nine Spiders mostly just cuts to the chase and starts killing undead without being asked to win over Okoye. I mean, she does narrate what she's doing while she does it, but she (or Hama) is old school, it's fine. I'd prefer it if Wachter made her more still when she's fighting. She was originally presented as someone who kind of hangs back, unleashes the spiders, doesn't move too much, but just wreaks havoc. Whatever, teamwork makes the dream work! Then some Storm Shadow looking guy on a rotting horse shows up, kills the dragon with one swing, cuts out its heart with another, kills three of Okoye's soldiers with the next and bails. She gives chase, but the Prince of Orphans, looking beat to crap, tells her she'd lose, and can be more helpful elsewhere.

Meanwhile, the Hidden Dragon's not content staying hidden.

This issue could almost feel like filler. Danny and the other go fight undead for a few pages, then Fooh calls them back because of the Hidden Dragon. The only thing of real significance seems to be Prince of Orphans enlisting Okoye. But the fact that Danny was told to protect the Heart of Heaven, but Aman is telling Okoye she needs to go there, keeps giving me that feeling someone (probably Danny) is getting played here. Fist is running around, following instructions, but nothing he's doing seems to be making the situation any better. They stop the undead, for now. But another dragon died, so what good did that do? Why hasn't Aman stepped in to work with the other Immortal Weapons?