Apparently Warren Ellis (best-known to the masses as the writer of Transmetropolitan) is writing a crazy anime-style Iron Man series. The trailer looks fucking fantastic, and I have always LOVED Ellis's take on Iron Man. This looks exceptionally promising. If the series lives up to the promise of this trailer, I can very, very easily see myself ( Read more... )

As anyone who pays attention to such things knows, the recent (and still-in-theatres) movie Iron Man is magnificent. It honestly stands comfortably shoulder-to-shoulder with such Super-Hero movies as X-Men 1 & 2, Spider-Man 2 & 2, and Batman Begins. It is a nearly flawless execution, not only standing on its own merits as a film, but (and herein ( Read more... )

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You know, it's funny: When I was a kid, I was a big Iron Man fan; so much so in fact that in grade five or six or so, I went out for Hallowe'en dressed up in a painstakingly-created home-made Iron Man costume. Later, though - and not even much later - the X-Men so completely captured my attention that I largely lost interest in the Iron Avenger.

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