Dan: ‘Get ready for payback, Iron Man. We are Scrap Iron Man.'
It's really too bad - and somewhat suspect - that this got rejected for publication as a comic. I'd love to read it.
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I think I could make my way through all six proposed issues.
Because of the undergroundness of this proposed book, there wouldn't be much waves made-and all I can say about that is 'Good'!
What's with all of the blasting of Iron Man? What did he do to anybody? Tony Stark's genesis as Iron Man comes in the realization that making weapons was wrong, so he stops it, and then decides to build a suit of armor to fight injustice and keep the peace. Plus, after he becomes Iron Man, he tries to keep the armour from becoming too widespread (with a few recent exceptions) by fighting the Armor Wars to keep crinimals from getting it.
In the second movie, he tells the U.S. Congress to go fuck itself when they want to get his armour, precipatating the rest of the story. Why can't people see this, instead of coming up with all of this bullshit?
The only thing that this book would have got is (quite possibily) a lawsuit from Marvel. Then where would the creator have been?
What's with all of the blasting of Iron Man? What did he do to anybody? Tony Stark's genesis as Iron Man comes in the realization that making weapons was wrong, so he stops it, and then decides to build a suit of armor to fight injustice and keep the peace. Plus, after he becomes Iron Man, he tries to keep the armour from becoming too widespread (with a few recent exceptions) by fighting the Armor Wars to keep crinimals from getting it.
In the second movie, he tells the U.S. Congress to go fuck itself when they want to get his armour, precipatating the rest of the story. Why can't people see this, instead of coming up with all of this bullshit?
Well, I'm a fan of Iron Man and even more obnoxious stuff like Captain America, but I can still see why people wouldn't see Tony Stark as an ideal. He's the type of capitalist like Bill Gates who is supposedly progressive and does good. To people who have to slave to make their products or people who are laid off in their factories, who are impoverished by their monopolies, etc, they aren't heroes.
Personally, I like the trend in comics that shows heroes as good to some people and nightmares to others (see Ultimates series, Astro City, etc.). I'd rather read stuff like that than low-budget hackneyed leftist comics. But I don't see it as a social ideal, just a mildly more up-to-date version of the comic books world.
On the other hand, I found this: http://www.unemployedman.com/ quite funny in a twisted way, even if it flirted with being tacky in a lot of segments.
What's with all of the blasting of Iron Man? What did he do to anybody? Tony Stark's genesis as Iron Man comes in the realization that making weapons was wrong, so he stops it, and then decides to build a suit of armor to fight injustice and keep the peace. Plus, after he becomes Iron Man, he tries to keep the armour from becoming too widespread (with a few recent exceptions) by fighting the Armor Wars to keep crinimals from getting it.
In the second movie, he tells the U.S. Congress to go fuck itself when they want to get his armour, precipatating the rest of the story. Why can't people see this, instead of coming up with all of this bullshit?
Well, I'm a fan of Iron Man and even more obnoxious stuff like Captain America, but I can still see why people wouldn't see Tony Stark as an ideal. He's the type of capitalist like Bill Gates who is supposedly progressive and does good. To people who have to slave to make their products or people who are laid off in their factories, who are impoverished by their monopolies, etc, they aren't heroes.
Personally, I like the trend in comics that shows heroes as good to some people and nightmares to others (see Ultimates series, Astro City, etc.). I'd rather read stuff like that than low-budget hackneyed leftist comics. But I don't see it as a social ideal, just a mildly more up-to-date version of the comic books world.
On the other hand, I found this: http://www.unemployedman.com/ quite funny in a twisted way, even if it flirted with being tacky in a lot of segments.
Last time I checked, he wasn't laying anybody off, or beating up drug dealers/additicts, but real nasty organizations (and yes, I know that he's a bit of a dick, but...) If the writer in question wants to make his book, then he should do so without beating up on Iron Man or incuring the legal wrath of anybody else. But that would take some measure of guts and an ability to look beyond anger, his narrow dogma (a problem that plagues the left, IMHO) and butthurtness, and also to realize that there is more than one type of protrayal of Iron Man, especially considering the good he's done, and tries to do.