I'll tell you what . . Warren Ellis writes one hell of a story. My only question is . . with the events transpiring in Ultimate Avengers . . does Tony not know what's going on there? And in that book, his brother, Gregory, and Nick seem to think of him as a fall-down drunk. It appears that after the 'Ultimate-wave', Tony has reformed. Or at least settled down for the time being. But, right now he has bigger concerns. Right now he looking into figuring out who seems to be who is pirating all of his Stark-tech. Last issue he ran into Justine Hammer, his dead rivals daughter. At first he wasn't overly concerned with her, until he found out that she's dying . . because of her father's machinations. He offers to help. In return . . she fills him in on what's been happening on the black market with all of his abandoned equipment. Their first stop? Prague. They're after a Doctor Faustus, who seems to be brokering everything in Europe. Of course on the way over they end up sleeping together. When they go to meet the man they find his bodyguards retrofitted with pieces and parts of Stark-tech. It seems at best experimental surgeries. When Tony gets mad and decides to put a stop to it all, we find out that Dr Faustus is actually MODOK. Apparently he had a problem with ' . . there was an accident with an ill-understood derivation of Richards transdimensional wells, and . .' now MODOK is the size of an action figure and lives within the empty vessel that is the framework of Dr Faustus. But he gives him a name . . Bram Velsing. Apparently he bought Stark's entire data package from Faustus in return for funding his unique medical needs. Anyways, he lives in a place that looks like Dracula's castle. When Tony launches his assault, he's met by Velsing and he's wearing what appears to be an adapted form of Tony's armor. Tony's not amused and the 2 armored men begin slugging it out. It kind of looks like a scene from Transformers or something. As with any story by Warren, this one if filled with lots of unique and original ideas. I can't wait to see what else comes out of this series. Maybe we'll finally get an Ultimate Iron Man book out of this one. There's been what . . 3 mini-series now . . I think? I think it's about time they explored this character in the Ultimate Universe a bit more. Especially since he's not a part of the Avengers / Ultimates anymore. Anyways, this was a great book. Fantastic story, and great artwork by Steve Kurth.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Ultimate Comics Armor Wars #2 - Marvel
I'll tell you what . . Warren Ellis writes one hell of a story. My only question is . . with the events transpiring in Ultimate Avengers . . does Tony not know what's going on there? And in that book, his brother, Gregory, and Nick seem to think of him as a fall-down drunk. It appears that after the 'Ultimate-wave', Tony has reformed. Or at least settled down for the time being. But, right now he has bigger concerns. Right now he looking into figuring out who seems to be who is pirating all of his Stark-tech. Last issue he ran into Justine Hammer, his dead rivals daughter. At first he wasn't overly concerned with her, until he found out that she's dying . . because of her father's machinations. He offers to help. In return . . she fills him in on what's been happening on the black market with all of his abandoned equipment. Their first stop? Prague. They're after a Doctor Faustus, who seems to be brokering everything in Europe. Of course on the way over they end up sleeping together. When they go to meet the man they find his bodyguards retrofitted with pieces and parts of Stark-tech. It seems at best experimental surgeries. When Tony gets mad and decides to put a stop to it all, we find out that Dr Faustus is actually MODOK. Apparently he had a problem with ' . . there was an accident with an ill-understood derivation of Richards transdimensional wells, and . .' now MODOK is the size of an action figure and lives within the empty vessel that is the framework of Dr Faustus. But he gives him a name . . Bram Velsing. Apparently he bought Stark's entire data package from Faustus in return for funding his unique medical needs. Anyways, he lives in a place that looks like Dracula's castle. When Tony launches his assault, he's met by Velsing and he's wearing what appears to be an adapted form of Tony's armor. Tony's not amused and the 2 armored men begin slugging it out. It kind of looks like a scene from Transformers or something. As with any story by Warren, this one if filled with lots of unique and original ideas. I can't wait to see what else comes out of this series. Maybe we'll finally get an Ultimate Iron Man book out of this one. There's been what . . 3 mini-series now . . I think? I think it's about time they explored this character in the Ultimate Universe a bit more. Especially since he's not a part of the Avengers / Ultimates anymore. Anyways, this was a great book. Fantastic story, and great artwork by Steve Kurth.
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