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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: re: Iron Man (SPOILER warning at end of message)
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 13:37:19 EDT
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> From:	ihuxk!crd55611           27-Sep-1984 10:57:12  
>
>
> Why OF COURSE some of us other netters read Iron Man!  It's probably one of
> the more respectable storytelling jobs O'Neil is doing these days.  Not to
> mention the McDonnell/Mitchell artwork--these two were made for each other
> as far as Iron Man is concerned.  I look forward to every issue!
>
>                                                      Charles

Well, I won't argue that it may be one of the "more respectable storytelling
jobs O'Neil is doing these days", but to be honest, I don't care at all for
the comic. It's not actively *bad*, but not actively good, either. About a "D"
on the Moriarty scale. I'm reading it until Tony and Rhodey come to a head
about the armor, and then I'm dropping it (unless Alan Moore takes over the
writing :-) ). It's *definitely* a pale comparison to th Micheline/Romita Jr./
Layton issues. Now *those* were something!

The latest issue is worth reading, though, for one panel: to defeat the Termite,
Tony calls the Avengers, and Vision acquires for him (presumably, since Tony
didn't previously know about it, the Vision said "I've got just the thing..."),
from Gyrich, Forge's Neutralizer, which the Scarlet witch brings along. After
learning about the growing Mutant Fear in the country, Tony says:

< ***** SPOILER follows signature ***** >

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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***** SPOILER ***** dead ahead!!! (don't say I didn't warn you!)

"I'd like to take a good look at this thing before we use it-- I may just have
to make an anti-neutralizing device some day!"

(heh heh)

--- jmb