Surely there will be some reprieve in the next issue.ĪND YET…what a dramatic soap opera development! He risks his life to help his romantic rival, then with his dying breath declares “It was WORTH it!” simply because he’s convinced himself that Pepper loves him more than the boss. I’ve been anxiously waiting for someone, anyone, to come to this oh so obvious realization.ĪND YET…as soon as we get confirmation that Happy indeed knows that Stark is Iron Man…guess what? He dies. Maybe Stark being Iron Man is not actually as “nutty” as he thinks! Well done, Happy! It’s always frustrating to me, reading these comics, or watching movies and TV, when characters cannot wrap their minds around what is so painfully obvious to us readers or viewers. So! It appears Happy has figured out that Stark is Iron Man! As he speeds down the road to assist the superhero bodyguard, his thoughts hint that he’s finally put it all together. Is that a 1960’s thing, a rich guy thing, or simply a comic book fantasy? Well, I know this for sure: Stark isn’t using, because whenever I book, I’ve never seen any “Lab Included” options, have you? He can have the biggest, best and most luxurious suites money can buy.ĪND YET… I’m mesmerized that when he travels, he also books a hotel LAB. I understand that Stark is filthy rich, and hotel accommodations should never be an issue for him. In both those stories, of course, the screens are appropriately GINORMOUS! Which leads me to suddenly realize that though so many things in these early Marvel comics are nowadays done so much better, we have to give Marvel credit for doing them decades earlier. Wouldn’t they have been more comfortable at home?ĪND YET…this immediately reminds me of Hunger Games, and to a lesser extent, Running Man. complex.” Why are so many people gathered in this carnival atmosphere to stare up at teeny tiny television monitors. I guess it’s not plagiarism when you’re repeating your own material, but I can’t help thinking that page two of this story is sort of like that.Īs Iron Man and Titanium Man battle, the crowd watches on “a special T.V. Every now and then a sitcom will do a retrospective of past episodes, where the only new work for the actors is to sit around and say, “Yeah…and remember when…?” before wavy lines lead to a flashback.
Strange in his ectoplasmic form, and now I’m wondering if this was Stan’s way of making his job a bit easier. Sure, the image of the Countess Stephanie de la Spirosa is flipped to try to throw us off guard…but I can’t be fooled that easily! In the past, I’ve chided the colorist for taking a day off whenever presented with Dr. Here’s a recap of what happened last time, which is very cool for my plot-challenged brain (as detailed in my last post, Reads Comics Like a Girl.)ĪND YET, I notice that some of these panels are directly lifted from the previous comic, so I can’t help feeling it’s a bit of a cheat. So just when I thought that comic books are simple and easy, and I’ve got this all figured out, some new thought made me change my mind and muse, “Okay, sure… to some degree… and yet…”Īs I turn the first page of the Iron Man story, I’m immediately flooded with déjà vu. Like life itself, so few things are truly good or evil (or, as Rhomann Dey philosophized in Guardians of the Galaxy, “I don’t believe anyone is ever 100% a dick”). And then it hit me: THAT was my story! As colorful as the pages of my Marvel Masterworks, that’s how not black-and-white I found the events and concerns within this issue. My mind reeled, as for so many of these observations, I couldn’t quite decide whether to present them as positives or negatives. But even more, I began to notice a pattern: every time I wrote down something in the “Hot” column, oddly, it also contained a strong element of “Not.” And every time I coded something as “Not,” well…there was also something kind of cool-I mean “Hot”-about it. First, I was surprised how many soap opera developments were squeezed into these two short stories.
After all, what could possibly happen to cause me to wax eloquent? Iron Man fighting Titanium Man, Captain America’s taking on the Nazis, it’s just going to be fight, fight, fight. I sat down to read this issue of Tales of Suspense, fully expecting it would be part of my next Meanwhile post.
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