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IRON MAN: THE INEVITABLE #2 (March 2006) |
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"Blind Dates."
Cover art: Frazer Irving.
Script: Joe Casey. Art: Frazer Irving.
I'm IN!! Casey has me and I
am impressed. From the opening few pages of tit-for-tat dialogue between
Spymaster
and the Ghost
(including an almost exact replica of a panel from the
Silver Centurion-era
IM,
circa #221) to the attempts to reach the
Living Laser,
to the confrontation between
Shellhead and the Ghost at SI
... WOW. Casey has brought back the feel -- and attitude -- of
Iron Man
as it should be. Tony Stark (despite his wretched hair style that makes him
appear, again, to be Adolph Hitler) is brilliant, cocky, extremely confident and
tough, and it's the villains who appear wary and uncertain as to best ...
best Stark/Iron Man.
Although current policy at Marvel still forbids footnotes, Casey
nevertheless doesn't forget
IM history, and makes use of
it almost as well as Busiek would.
Spymaster
explains what happened to his two predecessors, the villains discuss
Living Laser's
history, and how knowing that Stark is
Iron Man
can work to their advantage. Scientist/Psychologist
Maggie Dillon
makes progress trying to communicate with
Arthur Parks
(the Laser) and the art effects of these "attempts" are very well done. The
culmination of the ish is a scuffle between an SE-invading
Ghost,
Stark ... and a remote Iron
Man!
Hube's Recommendation:
repulsors!
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