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Warren Ellis writes Iron Man!

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Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

14:32 / 08.01.06

See, I took it to mean that the bones, as redesigned, now have space for the undersuit and the like. I mean, he flat out says that he regrew all of his organs.

sleazenation

15:32 / 08.01.06

I can almost hear Ellis making some disparaging comment about weird science being the basis of superhero comics or some such...

Has he ever given an explanation for the seeming continuity error in Transmet?

Which one's that?

If memory serves one of the main plot points - that the refrigerated journalist was supposed to have captured images of a scandel that occured before she was given a camera to take pictures with... I could be mistaken however...

FinderWolf

22:28 / 08.01.06

>> Historically, changes in IM's armor take a while to percolate, and some never do (because they are eliminated in his own title too quickly).

Much like the way writer Paul Jenkins, having been basically told to do so by his editors at Marvel, gave Spider-Man organic webshooters in one of Jenkins' final Spider-Man issues (in an effort to make the comics Spidey line up more with the movie Spidey), and recent Spidey-related comics since the change (i.e. the past 8 months or so) have barely mentioned it.

Mario

23:11 / 08.01.06

And, given recent events, may no longer even be an issue.

H3ct0r L1m4

05:15 / 09.01.06

if Stark's organs were regrown after the Extremis 'treatment', then his liver is on top shape again...

FinderWolf

15:17 / 14.01.06

well, it seems like the new "organically-connected" armor is here to stay and will actually be reflected in other comics: (the following from an interview with Joe Q. at Newsrama)

>> JQ: These Iron Man revelations [they're talking about the new armor here] will be seen across the board and are part of current continuity going forward and no one is happier than Tom Brevoort because he’s been dancing between the continuity raindrops for over a year.

H3ct0r L1m4

02:55 / 18.01.06

well, that was a good issue, until it ended when it was about to start.

liked the flashback origin, and the way he simply became a cyborg. iron man, inside and out. it was almost morrisonean, in a way.

the outside of the armor is apparently the same as before, which is a bit... meh. it could look a bit more fluid.

FinderWolf

14:07 / 18.01.06

There seems to be a slight difference in the face/skull helmet design (i.e. different from Adi Granov's original design which debuted in issue 1); very subtle but it seems to be there, unless I'm misreading the one major shot we get of it.

The Falcon

15:13 / 30.03.06

So, did anyone complete their run of Iron Man quarterly today? I did, for all that it was another largely content-free issue (pretty, but.) Ellis pulls off a last minute twist without any prior narrative hints, and - thus and therefore - Tony is able to justify his ethical quandary, as posed by John Pilger, back in November 2004. Was a good fight, though.

I'm not totally negative about the run; there were some pretty good real-world analogues chucked in, and the dialogue - where there was some - was far from embarrassing, and largely didn't display Ellis' by-now banally familiar tics (Tim Leary being the exception.) The character seems viable now, the trademark's serviced, and a lot of this was echoed in the Illuminati one-shot today, apart from the 'I never killed anyone'/'I killed fifty people' bit. I do suspect that the eventual trade could be read quite easily in under 20 minutes.

Mr Tricks

16:01 / 30.03.06

Kind of glad it's over. Beautiful artwork and the illuminati special seemed to make good use of the design shift. Nice way to "resolve" the potental love interest.

FinderWolf

17:04 / 30.03.06

'Iron Man Quarterly.' Love it!

The issue itself was just ok...not really the terrific Ellis IM run I would have wanted, but a decent run. And he did talk about hallicinogens in a mainstream Marvel comics; that's gotta be a landmark.

The Falcon

17:09 / 30.03.06

Is it though? I think David Mack's Echo arc in Daredevil preceded it, and had some peyote usage; albeit - technically - legal in Maya/Echo's case.

This Sunday

17:23 / 30.03.06

But this might be the first non-cod-spiritual discussion/broaching of hallucinogens. Ellis handles it as a practical matter, one of biology and engineering. And white men being useful on drugs has a very different connotation, in our general society, than how most comics readers are looking at Indians on drugs.

It's good to see a current Marvel book being properly neophiliac and promote-the-technologists. That and being selfish and pissed-off makes the Marvel Universe what it is. Made 'Marvel Boy' what it was, too.

Too many comics writers seem genuinely terrified of the future, it's funny technologies and weird drugs and awkward music and markets, which they might be too old and stodgy to embrace when they come to.

Ellis, on the other hand, as should Tony Stark, likes his cyrborg's bifurcated tongue on pierced third nipple. In space. With anti-cancer traits.

Jack Denfeld

02:11 / 31.03.06

Just read the Warren Ellis run and I liked it alot. The updating of Tony's origin was done well without adding anything stupid for shock value's sake. What I really liked about the origin was I just had it in my mind that Ellis was going to have the original Iron Man armor look ultra-future-cool2000, but then you see a beautiful page of Iron Man's original armor, bulky, 1950s robot looking.

Favorite scene when they're talking to the futurist, and futurist asks Tony's friend what she hopes to accomplish. "Cure cance within the next three years." Asks Tony the same question. "Work on my Iron Man suit."

I like Tony as test pilot for the future, cyborg iron man, it seems the last few years he's just been a guy with a metal suit.

_Boboss

08:57 / 03.04.06

while not wishing to pish on the series as a whole, which overall had some interesting (if heavily didactic) things to get across and did provide some kind of justification for tony's tonyness, this last episode was a right load of old toss. i mean, i know he had to win in this ish, but did the whole long, drawn out, mess of a fight have to be quite so lacking in tension? and did tony have to be quite so bloody smug from beginning to end?

and, i felt the extremisman was a bit poorly-treated overall. not only would he have made an alright recurring villain if he had some kind of cool cronenburgian way of reproducing or infecting others, but really the weaver ranch episode is one of those sneakily suspicious and malicious snafus that actually lends some credibility to the paranoia of the extreme right (and left) in the US and elsewhere, and I think the 'they were nutter-baddies' gloss elly might be seen to be offering us here is a bit too pat.

The Falcon

12:14 / 03.04.06

Aye, one of the bloggers has described it as 'the best subliminal argument for waiting for the trade ever', which is my main bother. Actually, that 'two keys' twist was set up in #4 or something, but how'm I supposed to remember that from mid-late '05? Shoulda been an OGN - Iron Man: Digitally Painted Justice or whatever.

John Brown

23:30 / 23.04.06

So, it looks like Mr. Ellis is not the writer for #7. Is this so? I thought he was going to be on the book for more than six issues.

The Falcon

16:13 / 24.04.06

Nah, as far as I recall, it was only ever going to be six.

Jack Denfeld

16:21 / 24.04.06

Forgot who the new writer was. The issue was kinda bleh. They show some arguing between Cap and Iron Man (Marvel has made them the Superman and Batman). Iron Man defeats a guy by stopping his heart and killing him. Then he electro revives him which Cap thinks is a bit much. There's some kind of assassination plot going on but it's kinda boring. The Tony characterization is good, but the story's kinda flat.

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