I almost picked up an Iron Man comic this weekend, it used to be one of my faves. But it was the middle of an odd story arc so I figured I'd wait.
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Huh. I may have to pick that up when it comes out.
I can hear it now. "Hey, Chet, can we go to the comic shop this weekend? There's a new comic out I want to get." I'm a terrible girlfriend, I know. Posts: 2283 | Registered: Dec 2003
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This isn't out yet, it's (apparently) a new addition to Marvel's lopsided Ultimates line.
OK, "lopsided" is my opinion. Some of the Ultimates series have been great (Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate FF), some have been OK (The Ultimates, Daredevil & Elektra), and some have been shaky or just bad (The Ultimates, Ultimate Nightmare).
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Maybe I misremember, but while OSC didn't put the form down, the impression I got from the one comment I remember him making about 'comics' were that they weren't entirely his thing. Then again, he did do 'Robota'....
I'll be interested to see what he does with 'Iron Man'. Though, quite honestly, I confess to seeing him as being more of a 'Captain America' or 'Superman' kind of guy.
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Thanks for the link, Chris, there's some neat stuff there to look forward to.
(The link doesn't mention though the new Concrete comic coming out in a few weeks, I've been looking forward to that one for a while now...)
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For those of us not in the comics scene, could somebody explain what the "Ultimate" series are?
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Revisions of existing Marvel characters that drop the years of backstory to start over with fresh versions. I recommend the Ultimate Spider-Man series highly.
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Also, while I have comic geeks answering questions, could somebody tell the the name of the 4-part series about the origins of batman? IIRC, the upcoming batman movie is based on it.
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Is Ultimate Series the one where spider-man has an impossibly huge head and Wolverine is a juvenile delinquent?
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The Ultimate series is for Marvel creations. So Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, etc. are all DC creations, and therefore will have no Ultimate series.
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Avid, the site I linked to doesn't have any games. It's ThePhiloticWeb. We reported on intelligence regarding Ultimate Iron Man a nice while ago.
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quote:Finally paying off on a hint dropped by Publisher Dan Buckley at WizardWorld Dallas, it was inadvertently announced by Time.com that novelist Orson Scott Card will be the writer on next year’s Ultimate Iron Man six issue miniseries, joining artist Andy Kubert. The first issue will reportedly have a foil cover by Bryan Hitch, whose artwork is seen here.
The tagline Marvel gave to Time.com reads: "If you thought The Ultimates told you everything you needed to know about Ultimate Iron Man, think again."
So if Andy Kubert's doing the art, I can better visualize OSC doing a comic book. Andy Kubert did the art for Neil Gaiman's 1602 comic. I didn't think the art was great... but it's less, um, "sensational" than a lot of comic book artists, who tend to draw women with giant breasts in tiny bikinis. It's hard to imagine OSC writing scripts for an artist like that...
OSC'll probably be good at comics when it comes to writing the dialogue and the repartee.
I wonder if he'll do anything with traditional super-villains... I would think he'd find most of them to be too cardboard-y; I'm guessing he'd go more for writing about aliens or evil spy organizations or evil corporations, and less likely to use, say, Dr. Doom or the Red Skull. (Or, if he did use a super-villain, he'd create a more ambiguous character like Peter or Calvin.)
Oh yeah: and if this is in the Ultimates "universe," he'll be using the Tony Stark character shown in The Ultimates, right? Which seems a bit of a challenge for OSC -- Tony Stark's very much of a playboy character in there. Also, his butler Jarvis is very much a queen...
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True. OSC could always have Stark call and leave a message for Jarvis in the first issue, "Cancel all my dates -- I'm off to the Andromeda Galaxy!" and that'd take care of that.
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i have been dedicated to easing osc's negative opinions on the comic genre for some time now
phew, so glad this was finally announced!
on the whole i don't read much marvel, but ultimate spider-man has been great, and so far ultimate iron man sounds like it's going to be sa-weet.
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The official solicitation for Ultimate Iron Man #1 has been released:
quote: ULTIMATE IRON MAN #1 (of 6) Written by Orson Scott Card Pencils by Andy Kubert Foil Cover by BRYAN HITCH Brace yourself for the most imaginative, groundbreaking comic of 2005. International bestseller, four-time Hugo award, two-time Nebula award and World Fantasy Award winner Orson Scott Card (author of Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Shadow Puppets) comes to the Ultimate Universe. He’s joined by industry legend Andy Kubert (Ultimate X-Men,1602, Origin) to show shocking beginning of ULTIMATE IRON MAN!!! If you thought The Ultimates told you everything you needed to know about Ultimate Iron Man, think again. It all starts here! 32 PGS./PSR+ …$2.99 RELEASE DATE: NOTE TO Retailers: THERE WILL BE A 50/50 ANDY KUBERT FOIL Variant
The series will kick off March 2005.
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Yes, he is. He just has to start vocalizing awkward opinions and advocating strange technological solutions and he'll be up there with Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein in the public consciousness.
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Woo, haven't been into comics for a while. I stopped reading them last decade when every other comic book came out with hologram covers and wannabe-McFarlane graphics.
Can't wait to pick this up. Has anyone read Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men? Is it any good?
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Astonishing X-Men is known to be one of the best ongoing titles right now...but I prefer the Ultimate X-Men instead. With plenty of characters left to re-introduce, there's more originality coming out of the series. It's current writer, Brian Vaughan, has been doing an incredible job of making every issue of the series worthwhile, and he's signed to continue writing the series all throughout 2005. However, then the title goes to Bryan Singer, the director of X2, who's supposedly going to do this "godly" 12-issue story arc, something that all Ultimate Marvel fans are shaking their heads in disapproval at.
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Ah, I stand corrected. I was wondering why Storm was so white.
I just assumed she was Storm because Storm was the leader of the X-men for a while and she was the one addressing the students.
My X-men lore is a bit rusty, I don't remember Frost at all. It's time to have some kids so I can get back into comics again. Posts: 4116 | Registered: Apr 2002
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Emma Frost used to be one of the heads of the Hellfire Club. She has, in typical Marvel fashion, been rehabilitated and turned into a reluctant and underdressed schoolteacher.
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I think Jubille is as close as we're going to get. But only cause she was like 14 or something Posts: 3003 | Registered: Oct 2004
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I read quite a few issues of the recent run of the X-Men that Grant Morrison wrote, and Emma Frost definitely wasn't rehabilitated so much as just restrained.
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