and here is a badass picture someone drew for/of me (link to artist: http://sparrowsabre7.deviantart.com/#/d38z2jv):


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As I have stated before, currently the Ultimate Marvelverse is one of the few places of solus with regards to sanity (mostly anyways) and post-Ultimatum, the universe seems to be restoring to its pre-Ultimatum level of quality. Being the massive fan of Ultimate Iron Man that I am, when I heard he'd got his own series (and not as a teenager) I leapt ( Read more... )

So basically, the Mark V suitcase armour in "Iron Man 2" rocks, but the music that plays it on starts off like it's that famous piece from "2001: A Space Oddessy" so, in the immortal words of Stan Lee "I made it better!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKhZ4CNrrjI

This is the "theme" from the first movie and proof that it's a travesty Djawadi didn't ( Read more... )

Well it's finally here, and definitely worth the wait. "Iron Man 2" is a worthy sequel and film in its own right. It's not quite perfect, there are a good few, rather important niggles to prevent it being so, but it certainly is a hell of a lot of fun.

Tony is in trouble, his arc reactor's poisoning him, the government wants his suit and a russian ( Read more... )

been a while since I did a good ol' fashioned Top 10 and I was too lazy to compile a full 'un, so here's a top 5 Iron Man Armours in honour of the cool exec with the heart of steel.

5. Hulkbuster Iron Man (Marvel)


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Well technically 2 and 1.

Anyways, as anyone who knows me knows, I love me some novelty shirts. Problem is I have like, 3, so I want to get some more, but now I am torn between play.com's delicious 2 for £20 offer on these two shirts:

http://www.play.com/Clothing/T-Shirts/4-/11864933/Marvel-Extreme-Men-Iron-Man/Product.html

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10 years ago Marvel decided to relaunch its universe of characters into a new millenium. The point being that new readers could just pick up the characters without having to go and sift through over 40 years of comics to get up to speed on a character. The way they chose to do this was the Ultimate universe, a universe more realistic and more ( Read more... )