Iron Man volume 3 #1 discussion post
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Iron Man #1 - Looking Forward

Writer: Kurt Busiek
Penciler: Sean Chen
Tony attempts to re-establish his life and regain control of his company after returning from the handwave handwave something something deadlet's never discuss the early 90s again. Unfortunately, someone is determined to stop him. Very determined.
We're also introduced to Sunset Bain, get re-introduced to Morgan Stark, and witness Tony turning down a hot date in order to go hang out at a construction site and commune with iron girders.
(Marvel's Digital Collection seemed to have replaced this issue with a 404 message when I looked - sorry guys)

Writer: Kurt Busiek
Penciler: Sean Chen
Tony attempts to re-establish his life and regain control of his company after returning from the handwave handwave something something dead
We're also introduced to Sunset Bain, get re-introduced to Morgan Stark, and witness Tony turning down a hot date in order to go hang out at a construction site and commune with iron girders.
(Marvel's Digital Collection seemed to have replaced this issue with a 404 message when I looked - sorry guys)
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Date: 2014-05-14 03:45 pm (UTC)Looking at this, the newer stuff really seems out of character to me. How do we go from this to having his AI pretty much doing all the work for him while he sits there like a lump? (Not that Gillen is a good example of a well-characterized Tony, but still). I get that it's supposed to be sorta "tying in the mcu stuff"....but....yeah that really doesn't make it better!
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Date: 2014-05-14 04:28 pm (UTC)Looking at this, the newer stuff really seems out of character to me.
I have many opinions about Fraction and Gillen writing of Tony. None of them are positive opinions.
(The art is much better than Larocca's and Land's, too.)
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Date: 2014-05-14 04:37 pm (UTC)Also, if only we had art like this in our current IM books.
*whistful sigh*
Also, is this the first Sunset has been introduced like, ever? Or just the "first" time since its relaunched from number one?
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Date: 2014-05-15 01:31 am (UTC)And yeah, the art is really pretty. I love the opening page, with Tony strutting his stuff in the khakis and the bomber jacket. He looks so pleased with himself. :-)
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Date: 2014-05-15 05:22 am (UTC)Also: Tony was on the football team at MIT!?
That death squad was really terribly cheesy, heh. TBH, I found this issue a bit boring but really appreciated the characterization moments. You get a very good sense of Tony just from these 40 pages (40 whole pages! With...well, not compressed storytelling, but not decompressed! I feel so spoiled.)
(Oh hey, there's a random panel on page 11 where Tony very blatantly has brown eyes. Lazy coloring is not just MCU-influence!)
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Date: 2014-05-15 05:31 pm (UTC)That was a surprise, but it turns out that MIT has a football team now. According to their website, they played their first varsity game in 1988.
Tony on the football team
Date: 2014-05-16 01:51 pm (UTC)Marvel time!
Date: 2014-05-15 05:08 pm (UTC)Then he throws a an elaborate party for five hundred of his closest associates, something that would take weeks of preparation, assuming you could hire a caterer on short notice.
All of this takes place between the end of Iron Man Volume 2 and the beginning of Iron Man Volume 3. Marvel time is so obliging. *g*
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Date: 2014-08-08 12:35 pm (UTC)This is not very discussion-y, but I'm jost so HAPPY about it.
(I couldn't open it from Unlimited though :( )