Comments on: Comics 15/05/08

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:44:00 +0000

I’ve now read the Iron Manual, and I see what you mean. It is a nice guide, and its good seeing all the armours together (he’s fair gotten through them in recent years, hasn’t he?).

But yeah, especially given all the Extremis changes to Tony in the last couple of years, a proper technical guide like the original would’ve been nice.

However, I can see how they’ve put it together for people jumping on, post-movie. And kudos to them for not airbrushing out the dodgy bits of continuity. I was surprised to see Teen Tony talked about in the book.

By: Pie Man 70

Pie Man 70 — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:23:16 +0000

Don’t mind the extremis armour. Main gripe is that its a little bland. New armours always used to be a distinct change for me, so the extremis just being a re-iteration of the previous suit was a bit of a disapointment. My problem with the New Iron manual was that it was mostly an official handbook about iron man, with only a few tech pieces, unlike the original which was mostly tech. Breifly confused at some of the later armours (Along the lines of, I’ve been reading Iron Man for the past 5 years and don’t remember half of these) until I remembered that Execute programme had featured several suits of armour.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:12:24 +0000

I must admit, I’ve picked it up, but I’ve only just flipped through it.

It did look more like a Who’s Who, rather than a proper technical manual like the original was though.

I did like seeing all the different armours though. It really hammered home how many there’s been.

I picked up Invincible Iron Man as well. However I do have one over-riding problem with the IM books. I hate the Extremis armour. I just think it looks ugly.

By: Pie Man 70

Pie Man 70 — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:19:53 +0000

Out of curisoity, did you pick up the all new Iron Manual, bit of a dissapointment as it may well have been called Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe – Iron man.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:36:28 +0000

A big thing for me was Captain Britain acknowledging that he wants to work towards properly becoming Britain’s answer to Captain America. I think this is something that’s long been overdue. It’d be great to have a real iconic British superhero, and he certainly fits the bill.

Completely agree about using the book to properly show the Skrull invasion as a world wide event. The downside in comics being that these things can end up being very US-centric which, while understandable in US-created comics, sometimes doesn’t give the big events the sense of scale they deserve.

By: Pie Man 70

Pie Man 70 — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:20:59 +0000

Captain Britain was very good, like how the Black night can forgoe the effects of his ebony blade by making flippant comments. I do remember a really bad joke in an old Solo avengers story where, after being shnned by the wasp, the Black night says words like “Oh well, guess its back to polishing the old Ebony blade”. Indeed.

Its just quite good taht the Skrulls have decided to invade the owrld as opposed to New york as well.