YES!

[mountain_laurel]

yes yes yes yes yes! and it's about goddamn time, too. awaken, O Mystic Eye of Agamotto! let the Dark One again feel your sting of Truth and Light!

i'm quite upset, however, that Iron Fist [1] and Power Man aren't going to be in the same movie. could there be a more perfect moment in pop culture for the beloved Heroes for Hire? i don't think so! i mean, you've got the 70s angle, the blaxploitation angle, the kung fu angle, the superhero angle, the buddy angle... it's got everything, baby!

i'm telling you, Hollywood needs me.

[1] on the up side, once the movie is out, my joke about "iron tits: unlike two things of iron!" will be funny again for about five minutes.

Comments

[peglegpete.livejournal.com]

ps: they fight crime!

[inkerx.livejournal.com]

Yes! One of my favorite comics when I was a kid was a faded old '70s issue of "Power Man and Iron Fist."

My favorite part was when Iron Fist was being interrogated by a jerk cop and he killed a fly by kicking at it several times and then catching it by the wings just inches in front of the cop's face. "Who do you think you are, Bruce Lee?" Kick. Kick. Grab. "Here's your fly, officer." Oooooo, burn.

[merde.livejournal.com]

i loved how they weren't rich guys with a huge secret base and their own jet. and how they had to compete with other local heroes for work. and i really dug Iron Fist, despite the goofy costume. man, he had one of the worst costumes in comic book history. capri pants on men = the horror! the horror!

[alfvaen]

Definitely about time. I guess they felt they had to do Daredevil first for some inexplicable reason.

No chance we'll get the Silver Dagger/Alice In Wonderland story, I suppose? Because using stories from the actual comics themselves is just declasse.

Here's hoping they don't cast Clooney-with-a-mustache.

[spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com]

Man, what a team-up that was. I was really young, but I remember they were great partners. Luke Cage, I remember, being quite the mercenary end of the pair.

I have this memory of an issue where Luke hooks up with some magical-power-havin' character and he says "Turn that building into gold." And the guy does it. And the building collapes under it's own weight. And then Iron Fist starts giving Luke shit because Nixon moved the U.S. off the gold standard and oh by the way you just broke a building, Mr. Greedypants.

They had great chemistry. Would be better together, but at least they're getting made. Hope they don't suck.