When I was a young comics geek, one of my favorite comic books was a second-tier book put out by Marvel called Power Man & Iron Fist, which was unique in that the title characters ran a business called Heroes for Hire. Need a hero? Give 'em a call. Nowadays, Power Man is better known as Luke Cage, but I always identified with Danny Rand, a.k.a. Iron Fist. He was a guy who had been raised in the mystical city of K'un L'un and became a master of the martial arts. While there, he gained the power of the Iron Fist, where he could channel the power of his chi into his fist, making it (as the caption invariably stated) "like unto a thing of Iron!", making his punch powerful enough to knock the Hulk on his butt. Looking back, I can see how a lot of how Ch'p acts and reacts to things isn't much different than how Iron Fist would, as he was also somewhat naive in the ways of the world.
See you all next week!
~Rob
Whoa. D&D Bards wear cutoffs and tank tops under those robes?
Where’s the puppy?
What Susie said! And who knew Dwarvish women were so hot! Definitely going to have to get back into D&D!
Good to see Ch’p isn’t only a master of baked goods.
I agree with Mike, we haven’t had many opportunities to see Ch’p being monk-like (monkish…monk-ying around?) since he was introduced. In every campaign, there’s inevitably going to be a “you’ve lost all your weapons and armor” phase to the adventure. It’s times like these that the player running the monk gets to shine in the midst of those who normally minmax up and down his robe-wearing butt. It’s always nice to toss them a bone once in awhile.
Yeah, I remember Power Man and Iron Fist from the first time around. Nowadays, the only Marvel I want to keep up with is the movies. Both the regular and the Ultimate universes are hopelessly screwed up.
Thanks to the final panel Geeks the world over just had the same reaction Ch’ip did,….lol.