TheCC Staff
07-10-2008, 03:50 PM
This is the Iron Man you’ve been waiting forby Michael Furth (http://furth.tumblr.com/)
July 10th, 2008 - It happens every single time. Batman went through it. Spiderman, Superman, X-Men, the list goes on. The movie happens and the publisher tries to capitalize on it by pumping out more material in hopes that the sudden influx of interest, the new pop culture status of a comic book character, will initiate a mad dash to the local comics shop to grab whatever sits on the shelves. It’s not such a bad idea. But where I’m a little fuzzy on this whole thing is what happens when the prospective customer has just walked out of the theater, noticed a comics shop across the street, walks through the door and arrives at the comics rack and sees five different titles, all with X-Men in the title. Ultimate X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, Wolverine, the rest of the books that Wolverine is guest appearing in. Which one to choose? (we can debate that later but my money is on Astonishing) I have to imagine that the higher ups at Marvel saw this one coming because Invincible Iron Man was clearly timed to coincide with the movie, made to be readily accessible to a newcomer, and thankfully also very very good.
Now if you’re like me you got into comics in the 90’s. And what you loved was the art. It was a crazy time. Everybody wanted to be the hot artist. And you bought books just because the art looked damned pretty. Needless to say, those times are over. Over because people got bored. Pretty art is great, but that can only take you so far for so long. And fortunately for all of us, story came back. For a moment I need you to forget all about that. Because Salvador Larocca is here in full force. If Matt Fraction leaves the book for greener pastures I will still be ready to check out what’s going on in Iron Man’s world because Salvador Larocca is drawing up a very beautiful world.
Click Here To See The Whole Review And Preview Pages (http://thecomiccollective.com/Comic_Books/Reviews/2008/Michael_Furth/Invincible_Iron_Man_3/)
July 10th, 2008 - It happens every single time. Batman went through it. Spiderman, Superman, X-Men, the list goes on. The movie happens and the publisher tries to capitalize on it by pumping out more material in hopes that the sudden influx of interest, the new pop culture status of a comic book character, will initiate a mad dash to the local comics shop to grab whatever sits on the shelves. It’s not such a bad idea. But where I’m a little fuzzy on this whole thing is what happens when the prospective customer has just walked out of the theater, noticed a comics shop across the street, walks through the door and arrives at the comics rack and sees five different titles, all with X-Men in the title. Ultimate X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, Wolverine, the rest of the books that Wolverine is guest appearing in. Which one to choose? (we can debate that later but my money is on Astonishing) I have to imagine that the higher ups at Marvel saw this one coming because Invincible Iron Man was clearly timed to coincide with the movie, made to be readily accessible to a newcomer, and thankfully also very very good.
Now if you’re like me you got into comics in the 90’s. And what you loved was the art. It was a crazy time. Everybody wanted to be the hot artist. And you bought books just because the art looked damned pretty. Needless to say, those times are over. Over because people got bored. Pretty art is great, but that can only take you so far for so long. And fortunately for all of us, story came back. For a moment I need you to forget all about that. Because Salvador Larocca is here in full force. If Matt Fraction leaves the book for greener pastures I will still be ready to check out what’s going on in Iron Man’s world because Salvador Larocca is drawing up a very beautiful world.
Click Here To See The Whole Review And Preview Pages (http://thecomiccollective.com/Comic_Books/Reviews/2008/Michael_Furth/Invincible_Iron_Man_3/)