(December 2001) "Book 1:
Chapter 3."Story: Chuck
Austen. Art: Chuck Austen, Wild and Wooly Press and
NIC Entertainment. Layout: Victor Lopez.
Things really begin to heat up in this issue! First revelation: Parnell
stole and sold a WM
suit to Hydra!
Rhodes goes nuts at this news, and is calmed only by Fury,
who shows him three SHIELD-developed
War
Machine suits! Rhodes is impressed.
Next bomb drop: Fury wants Parnell on the team, due to his prior WM
armor experience, and the fact that Parnell's wife has been kidnapped!
Fury believes this to be an excellent method of controlling Parnell while
using his experience. Third ripple in the pool: AIM
has split along racial lines,
with a neo-Nazi racist apparently the new AIM
leader! Ultra-Violent Marvel Max ending! No more slowly smoldering
story!!
TJ's
Recommendation: USWM patches!
Hube's Response:
Chuck really piles on the racial undertones here. Rhodey
witnesses (via videotape) a white supremacist AIM
agent butchering a helpless black man (or should I say "African-American?")
after Jim's told what SHIELD
wants from him. Filled with rage, he grabs a pistol to kill the imprisoned
AIM
agent. Parnell
tells Jim "not to do it," that "it's not you." So Parnell
takes the gun and puts a bullet in the agent's skull! Whoa!
Hube's Recommendation:
3 and 1/2USWM
patches!
