Could this story be more depressing?
Aaron does a decent job on Fat Cobra’s backstory—though he doesn’t go enough into defining Fat Cobra’s Heavenly City. He buys his way back into it at one point and buying one’s way back into a Heavenly City seems a little common.
Then there’s all the retconning of Fat Cobra into Marvel Comics history. He was almost an Invader, he was Ulysses Bloodstone’s sidekick and so on and so forth. Aaron’s trying to hard to be cute. When we get to the end of the story and find out the salient feature of Fat Cobra’s (forgotten) past… all the other stuff becomes silly.
That feature—Fat Cobra has no memory of his past—is similarly problematic. Aaron needed to explain it.
Good art from a variety of artists. It’s a fine package.
Swierczynski’s Iron Fist backup is the best Iron Fist he’s written.
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