Next year, Luke Cage and Danny Rand – better known as Power Man and Iron Fist – return to Marvel Comics.
The first Power Man and Iron Fist title goes all the way back to the 1970s, when Marvel decided to bring together the two superheroes under one title. That series eventually led way to Heroes For Hire in the 1990s, followed by a brief revival of Power Man and Iron Fist in 2011.
Now, Marvel plans on dedicating a new ongoing series to the superheroic duo, written by David Walker (Shaft) with artwork by Sanford Greene (Runaways, Uncanny Avengers).
The new Power Man and Iron Fist series will begin by explaining that best friends Luke and Danny have drifted apart. However, after an old friend comes to both of them asking for help, they reunite to take on the bad guys, "rekindling Marvel's mightiest bromance."
"I've loved these two characters since before they even teamed up," said Walker in a press statement. "When Power Man and Iron Fist first teamed up back in the late 1970s, their title quickly became one of my favorite books, and it was always something I fantasized about writing. Seeing them back together is like being reunited with your oldest friends."
This news comes hot on the heels of Netflix's announced plans to create individual TV series for both characters: Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Also, the Jessica Jones series will premiere on the streaming service next month, with Netflix planning to eventually bring all three characters together, along with Daredevil, for a series based on The Defenders, a Marvel crimefighting supergroup.
In Marvel Comics, Luke Cage and private eye Jessica Jones are a couple: the two even get married and have a child together in the comic book storyline. This is also part of the continuity of the universe created for Power Man and Iron Fist: the backstory even affects Cage's new costume in the series (the tiara is gone).
So will the new Power Man and Iron Fist comic book series resemble its predecessors?
"David and Sanford are both extremely well versed in the background of these characters, the world they're from, but they're also bringing their own style to this," said series editor Jacob Thomas to FastCompany. "Expect some solid, old school Marvel characters – both enemies and allies like, say, Tombstone and Black Mariah – to show up."
Power Man and Iron Fist will debut sometime in 2016.
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