I'm watching TENET and can someone tell me why Iron Man comics don't explore such concepts and instead he just fights mooks? He's a billionaire supergenius wearing the most advanced weapon on the planet. His stories should be Half-Life and Splinter Cell. Sci-Fi x Espionage, but not Cosmic Abstracts that the F4 deal with.
Also general Iron Man Thread.
Because Iron Man is sold on premise rather than characterization. No one can agree what the fuck Tony should be or do, and writers conflict over this.
Because the writers of Marvel aren’t talented enough to do anything beyond, “Rich Man Bad! White Man Guilt! No-Stakes SoL Drama!”
I just want Christopher Priest to get his chance to write Tony. Even if it were only for four issues...
Is that the design Priest wanted? They might finally cave and give him the damn book
>I just want Christopher Priest to get his chance to write Tony
He will probably write about race too.
Too much Brainiac.
He's not really sci fi in the big sense cause Marvel writers can't do it, with sort of the exception being Hickman. The suit is really another way to say he can fly and do energy blasts. They should legitimately put a sci fi writer on the book and just see what happens. See if Iain M Banks or idk Dan Simmons or someone would do it.
>Iain M Banks
Man, do I have bad news for you...
No, just an Iron Man redesign.
Have another.
Right now his book is about "Sigh I'm rich and people hate me, including me."
Which, I suppose, is in keeping with the current "eat the rich" mentality but let's be honest here. Fiction is supposed to be escapism where you can see a billionaire supergenius use crazy advanced science to battle the forces of MAD SCIENCE
That's All-Caps mad science, not just regular "Weather Dominator" mad science.
Actually his book just feels like "I can't do anything fucking right, and everyone rich or poor hates me". Which it seems like a fun commentary on how shit Iron Man books usually are, the problem however is that this still is a snoozefest
I'm tired of them restarting the iron man armor every time he defeats the villain on duty
who has been the best girlfriend of iron man?
I understand you
We all know it's the armor.
>Fiction is supposed to be escapism
Says who? A large part of fictional works have something to say about the here and the now, including science-fiction.
You maybe interested in Stormwatch and The Authority by Warren Ellis.
I apologize, I should've said "most fiction" to be more precise. And you can still say something about the here and now while still stepping outside of how much shit sucks.
Yes, but at least it will have some nuance and affect the story in a meaningful way.
Not him, but what happened?
He's been dead for 7 years.
Oh...
>His stories should be Half-Life
He's engineer, not a scientist