Source: marvel.com
7. “The Pirate Queen of Pinghai Bay”
Writers: Matt Fraction & Ed Brubaker
Artists: Travel Foreman, Leandro Fernandez, & Khari Evans
This is such a wonderful way to break up a series like this. Have a big story arc, then do a one off about an Iron Fist from a previous time period.
Honestly, reading this gave me echoes of later comic books that had similar structures like The Wicked + The Divine and the Aaron/McGuinnes Avengers run. This is the story of the Pirate Queen of Pinghai Bay, also known as Wu Ao-Shi, the Immortal Iron Fist.
Wu was a young street urchin in K’un L’un who was taken in by The Thunderer and trained to become the Iron Fist. As she reached adulthood, she began a doomed romance with a fisherman and abdicated her role forever because of it. Of course, that didn’t stop her from using her powers to free the land from the tyranny of the Pirate King. She did this with a lot of punching. All in all it’s a very fun one shot with some really solid narration that adds to the story as a whole.
