AnotherBrian

December 16, 2008 1:29 pm

The person on the cover is Whitney Frost, aka Madame Masque. She was an old enemy/flame (are any females in the MU not an old flame?) of Tony Stark.

She's recently been seen with the Hood, who is currently a member of the Dark Illuminati 

August 27, 2008 8:25 pm The past arc was the dumbest story ever.

July 30, 2008 12:50 pm

Is it me or is it significant that you don't see any Iron Man suit there?

As a general rule, you always see Thor, Cap, and Iron Man togehter (not recently, but in times past), but I don't see Iron Man's armor here. 

July 15, 2008 10:49 am

This story has it's plusses and minuses.

 

The good part first. It seems that Matt Fraction has read some of the prior Iron Man issues. While he apparently forgot that Iron Man does not use jet boots anymore, he now remembers that Iron Man has an undersheath and his armor forms around his body. Iron Man kicking the hell out of the three Raiders was entertaining.

Now for the bad or at least confusing part. I am not sure if Matt Fraction is aware, but the Republic of China (Taiwan) is not the same as the People's Republic of China (Mainland China). Teipei is the captial of Taiwan, not the PRC. Taiwan is an open, Democratic society that is eager to cooperate with people. The PRC is a closed society that limits their people's access to the outside world. 

 So, I'm confused why the ROC (Taiwan) would react as it did in the story. If anything, they would want to cooperate with SHIELD. I thought, perhaps, that in the IM:DOS story would have created bad blood between ROC and Iron Man when IM lead the SHIELD unit to investigate the Mandaran in IM:DOS. However, that occurred in the PRC, not the ROC. 

 So, I'm back to why would the ROC attack Iron Man at all. 

 I hope Matt gets better in his research......

June 17, 2008 2:04 pm

This arc has a new writer to Iron Man. The prior writers, the Knaufs, were taken off of Iron Man: DOS.

I am unsure how this arc will go. So far, it's been okay, but nothing fantastic.