Of the four comics I went looking for last weekend, I didn't expect the last issue of The Union to be the one I couldn't find. So instead of two fifth issues to look at, we've only got one.
Nobody's very happy Okoye killed one of the dragons, but apparently it was so she can absorb its energy and team-up with Danny to save the day. Somehow. I guess if she's got it the evil Hierophant guy can't get it. Can't decide what that guy reminds me of. Demon King Piccolo crossed with the Lich King from Adventure Time? Eh, probably not. The Mother of Mercy's expositing is interrupted by him and Brenda, or Yama Dragonsbane. Who still has not bothered to actually fight Danny Rand.
It is funny to watch Luke Cage basically no-sell everyone's offense in this mini-series. Super-strong, bulletproof guy is not impressed by all this kick-flippy ninjitsu stuff. Brenda goes charging to unleash some sword attack and surprise! The blade breaks on his skin and he punches her in the head.
Fooh lures the bad guys into chasing him back to Rand Tower, and blows up his gate, trying to close all the gates that way. Maybe it works, maybe it didn't, but the remaining heroes are going to have to fight the big, angry, presumably evil dragon that's been sitting on that tower in the cursed city for the previous four issues.
The farther into this mini-series we get, the more of it that seems pointless. Like, what was the need for the Immortal Weapons to run around trying to protect their dragons and cities? Apparently it was better for Okoye to kill the dragons and absorb their power herself to keep it from Hierophant. Did they have to do all this so the proper person to assume that "honor" would reveal themselves? Because it feels like nobody has done anything of any use in this story. Move the Heavenly Cities? Doesn't help. Hide the dragons? Doesn't help. Smash a bunch of undead ninjas? Doesn't help.
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