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Shellhead Socks It To You

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Tony Stark appears at the Fortress today courtesy of Shortpacked!

Gotta admit, the misunderstood futurist dick has a point …

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1 SallyP June 30, 2007 at 7:56 am

But he seems to be enjoying himself too much.
2 ulf boehnke June 30, 2007 at 8:37 am

Iron Man has got to decide on which side of the fourth wall he wants to be. If he is just an “actor” working for Marvel, then his attacks at the other “actors” don’t work, because they haven’t got a free will either. If he’s a real person, then he’s just looking for an excuse. “The Devil made me do it.”

About the Hulk: Maybe she is angry, because Iron Man broke the law, hen he shot the Hulk into space. If I caught a criminal and shot him into space, I would go to jail.

About Spider-Man: The unmasking was Iron Man’s idea. And Spider-Man isn’t attacking anyone. He is stopping criminals. Normal policeman occasionally insult criminals, too, if Hollywood is to be believed.

Clone Thor: see above. Either actor or person. It may not have been your idea, but you didn’t stop it.

Civil Rights: Registering the Super-heroes or unmasking them is right. Incarcerating or drafting them for life isn’t.

Prima Donnas: I will leave to Iron Man’s readers to decide how many times he broke the law to protect his ongoing soap opera.
3 LurkerWithout July 1, 2007 at 3:55 am

Every time I see someone defend the Illuminati shooting Hulk into space I just groan. Because it was such a stupid plan. Both from a in-character and out of character viewpoint. Sure, it led to Planet Hulk, which as far as I can tell was pretty damn good. But its such a weak concept. Ignoring how its a recycled plot (Hulk’s been banished to space AND to other dimensions before) I just can’t believe that it was the ONLY feasible plan the Illuminati guys could come up with. Lets look at their membership:

1. Black Bolt - leader of a group with access to terrigen mists, a mutagenic substance of poorly defined scope.

2. Prof. Xavier - massively powerful telepath and psychiatrist with experiance dealing with people with anger issues AND abuse survivors.

3. Dr. Strange - Universe’s most powerful wizard.

4. Namor - leader of a nation with pretty much unlimited financial resources.

5. Reed Richards - super genius in more fields than he’s got stretchy fingers.

6. Tony Stark - genius technologist.

And THIS group couldn’t come up with a cure for the Hulk?

But leaving all that aside, wouldn’t a better story (where Stark and the others don’t come off as the bad guys) be that one of Hulk’s ACTUAL enemies shoots him into space on a big bomb and FRAMES the Illuminati dudes? Say the Leader? Or hell, the Ghost of General Ross or something…
4 Earl Allison July 2, 2007 at 3:13 am

Actually, he really DOESN’T have a point, not if I am to take the last few decades of comics into account, anyway.

It’s great Marvel wants to completely ignore their own history to tell a story (something they used to use “What If?” for), but that doesn’t mean I should just accept what they put in front of me.

As ulf mentioned, “Tony” can’t have it both ways. Much like Marvel, they’re playing both sides, here. On the one hand, we heard arguments about realism, sophisticates storylines, and policital debate. On the other, we got Negative Zone gulags, Thor murder-clones, and Tony “the Law is the Law (unless it’s me, of course)” Stark deciding that NOW heroes needed to pony up responsibilities — shame that never registered during Armor Wars, or when he tried to sic Osborne on Atlanteans, etc.

Funny how TONY’S crimes are being ignored, at least for the time being, and HE’S got his own book … so much for the SRA and accountability. It’s never Tony’s fault, apparently.

Basically, Marvel made their bed here, no sympathy from me.

Take it and run.
5 The Fortress Keeper July 2, 2007 at 1:17 pm

Logically speaking, our fictional protagonist does have a point in the Shortpacked strip.
The only problem, is that “realistic” evaluations of super-hero battles can’t really exist in comic books without destroying the whole concept of flying men & women in Spandex.
When Marvel attempts to transform Tony into Ozymandius, they fail to realize that “mature breakthroughs” like Watchmen and Dark Knight represent the end - rather than the next step - of super-hero comics.
The characters in Watchmen and DK doen’t finish their journeys singing happy songs. Heck, they’re not necessarily even heroes. Those justly acclaimed graphic novels are ultimately no more - and no less - than exercises in taking superhumans to the absolute limit.
That’s fine when it comes to testing the fortitude of classic super-heroes. It doesn’t work, however, when the company has a strong interest in maintaining a cohesive “universe” that maintains characters ready for summer blockbuster movies and Slurpee cups.
The way we see it, aping the morose feel of comics’ British Invasion of the ’80s without providing the appropriate logical or emotional conclusion is unimaginative and merely leads to such developments as a quasi-villainous Iron Man.