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    Iron Fist 2 Netflix

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    On 9/11/2018 at 2:13 AM, ExNihilo said:

    Is this the first post for the new season?  Wow.  I'm surprised a thread wasn't started earlier. I mean, yeah...season 1 was bad, but I figured there would still be someone eager enough to have started a thread for season 2 months ago.

    That being said, season 2 is a vast improvement over season 1.  Then again, s1 set the bar really REALLY low.

    Season 2 thoughts/spoilers below:

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    Danny is still the least interesting character in his own show.  But at least what motivates him is grounded in a sense of maintaining some moral center.  He's not the whiny, petulant child he was in s1, but he's still prone to making mistakes due to inexperience.

    Ward and Joy's characters were the highlight of s1 for me so it was good to see them return here.  Yes, the boardroom drama thing grew thin in s1, so it's good to see them get a little more depth here.  Joy's arc is a little questionable, but I really like what they've done with Ward.  I love deeply flawed characters who embark on a path of redemption and that's exactly what we've gotten out of him through 2 seasons.  He was a in s1 and we see him working to make amends here.  He's still a , but it's great to see him and Danny together.  If for no other reason than to see the two, who are opposites in so many ways, share some common ground.

    But the highlight for me was Mary.  I found the dual personalities interesting and mysterious.  Characters are so often black or white, that it was great to have a character that was a bit of both.  She really felt dangerous because you couldn't get a read on her motivations early on.

    Obviously, the series has its flaws.  Some might argue that the pace plodded along.  That Danny is still annoying.  That the ending is out of character.  That Davos was an uncompelling villain following hot on the heels of Bushmaster and Mariah.  And they're all valid arguments.  The ending was a headscratcher for me.  Danny trained his whole life to be the Immortal Iron Fist and then he just gives it to Colleen...a former disciple of the Hand?  And's what with him using a gun?  He's a martial artist.  To me, he's supposed to be like Batman and have a strict no gun rule.  And we're supposed to believe that Ward just ran off with him for months on end?  Who's running Rand Corp?  And what's with the cup with the crane that Misty saw in the antiquities storage room?  I don't recall her mentioning it to Colleen.

    But overall, I'm more interested to see where the show goes from here.  More so than I was following s1.

     

    @ExNihilo

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    In regards to the guns, not sure if you read Ed Brubaker & Matt Fraction's run on The Immortal Iron Fist, but it's something they explored in that title.  Channeling Chi through weapons.  The dual pistols were a nod to Orson Randall (who they also introduce), a former Iron Fist that used them.

     

    Question About Doc Shaner's Flash Gordon Art

    in Original Comic Art

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    @ZimmermanTelegram  He is very nice and personable, but you will have to stay on him to make sure your page gets sent.  I originally had commissioned a piece that would have had the X-Men's Beast vs Kraven the Hunter, but after doing some further research and learning how bad Evan is with delivering commissions (he just settled up with a commissioner that had been waiting 9 years recently), I proposed the swap for the page.  Here's what I ended up with:

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