oz@rlgvax.UUCP (THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ) (02/09/84)
I just finished the latest IRON MAN, and was very pleased with the issue. I felt that they handled the entire situation with Tony very well, and without going into the usual type of cliches that are to common in Marvel comics now a days. I am VERY interested in finding out what is going to happen next issue with Rhodys new armor and Tony's reformation. It should be interesting. Anybody else read this "oldie but goodie?" OZ seismo!rlgvax!oz
boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) (10/06/84)
> From: ihuxk!crd55611 27-Sep-1984 10:57:12 > > > Why OF COURSE some of us other netters read Iron Man! It's probably one of > the more respectable storytelling jobs O'Neil is doing these days. Not to > mention the McDonnell/Mitchell artwork--these two were made for each other > as far as Iron Man is concerned. I look forward to every issue! > > Charles Well, I won't argue that it may be one of the "more respectable storytelling jobs O'Neil is doing these days", but to be honest, I don't care at all for the comic. It's not actively *bad*, but not actively good, either. About a "D" on the Moriarty scale. I'm reading it until Tony and Rhodey come to a head about the armor, and then I'm dropping it (unless Alan Moore takes over the writing :-) ). It's *definitely* a pale comparison to th Micheline/Romita Jr./ Layton issues. Now *those* were something! The latest issue is worth reading, though, for one panel: to defeat the Termite, Tony calls the Avengers, and Vision acquires for him (presumably, since Tony didn't previously know about it, the Vision said "I've got just the thing..."), from Gyrich, Forge's Neutralizer, which the Scarlet witch brings along. After learning about the growing Mutant Fear in the country, Tony says: < ***** SPOILER follows signature ***** > --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA ***** SPOILER ***** dead ahead!!! (don't say I didn't warn you!) "I'd like to take a good look at this thing before we use it-- I may just have to make an anti-neutralizing device some day!" (heh heh) --- jmb
ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (10/30/84)
From: Mike Ciaraldi <ciaraldi> I was at a comic convention here in Rochester on Sunday. Guests were Luke McDonnell (Iron Man penciller), June Brigman (Power Pack penciller), and Mark Bright (taking over on Power Man/Iron Fist, and also did the latest FF Annual and some Dazzlers). I talked with Luke at some length (and also picked up the new issue of Iron Man with a very nostalgic front cover!) and asked him if Rhodey was really impotent. Well actually, I had to phrase it more delicately than that, since I was surrounded by 14-year-olds. He seemed shocked (not greatly shocked, but at least like he hadn't been asked that before) and said that he could see how the sequence could be interpreted that way. He maintained that he had no opinion either way, he was just illustrating it the way the scripter asked for it. I said something like, "So they spent the evening together but he couldn't hold up his end of the conversation" and he basically agreed. I guess we'll have to track down Denny and ask him. One thing I forgot to ask Luke was where he learned how to draw geodesic domes wrong. Mike Ciaraldi seismo!rochester!ciaraldi