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Power Man & Iron Fist #1

Written by David Walker

Art by Sanford Greene

Colors by Lee Loughridge

I wasn’t ready for these two fiddle-faddling knick-knack paddy-whacks!  If you read the new ongoing series of “Power Man and Iron Fist” you would get that opening line.  And you would find it hilarious.

It starts right here with this issue and it is excellent.  There isn’t any wasted momentum and it isn’t looking like a series that has lost sight of what these two characters together is about.  Luke Cage and Danny Rand aren’t just buddies who brawl back to back in the thick of it.  They’re also best friends.  The kind of best friends who have known each other longer than either would like to have known each other.

This issue starts with Luke and Danny, Power Man and Iron Fist respectfully, waiting for a friend to be freed from prison.  Jennie Royce, the former office manager of Heroes for Hire has just finished her time in prison, for murder.  As a gift and favor for the newly freed Royce, Power Man and Iron Fist agree to recover a family heirloom from a local tough guy.  Shouldn’t be a problem for those two.

It turns out to be quite the problem.  Read this new, awesome and down-to-earth title to find out how big of a problem!

David Walker has written these two beautifully, with some of the wittiest dialogue more akin to a later film in the Lethal Weapon series (Let’s say Lethal Weapon 3, because 4 was okay).  Walker establishes the depth of this friendship without wasting any time.  

I can’t contain my excitement.  For anyone who has read my reviews before, and especially recently, they are familiar with my love for the street-level heroes like Daredevil.  I also hold special places in my heart for Iron Fist and Luke Cage individually, and seeing them together again has created a Venn diagram of adrenaline-fueled love.

Everyone should buy this book so it keeps getting made and goes on forever!

Matthew Burbridge is a Digital Editor at ComiXology and he has to remember to call the mechanic because his car keeps making this sound like the car from the movie “Uncle Buck” with John Candy as the titular character. You’ve seen that one right?  It has Macaulay Culkin when he was really little and he has the giant pancake short stack the size of pizzas.  That’s a good movie.