I haven’t gotten that far into this era of Iron Man comics yet (or at least, none that prominently feature Rhodey), so I’m a bit confused why some of his armors are missing the Unibeam. I’ve looked it up many times but can’t seem to find an answer anywhere.

His first armor had one, so why’d he give it up?

Cosplayers: EMH Iron Man @marc.kandel Viktoria Von Bling @annma_arts photos by @miggychagon

We live together and I’ve been amassing merchandise. I don’t stop until she tells me to….

Actually, I’ll still keep going anyway.

You can use them in any order you want and tweak their back stories to be more related to Tony (since Iron Man 2 has both Whiplash and Justin hammer you can replace one and keep the other like replacing Whiplash with Ghost or vice versa)

In today's issue, the Iron Man armor pulls other components into itself to grow itself. It doesn't just cling to other systems like War Machine's armor did once, it actively incorporated/changed the tech to fit the Iron Man design. Whiplash's weapons became its own, the bomb-control UI was under Tony's control. The damaged faceplate even regrows; it doesn't just call in a replacement faceplate, we see it mid-growth and this time I don't think this could be an art error as it's his main book and a central plot point. This also puts this suit's previous quasi-morphing (the bike armor, the stealth mode, the Mysterio mode) into new context.

This armor clearly has a high degree of morphology without actually being a fluid. How do you think it does this? The only concept I can think of is maybe a new recipe of nanotech or maybe something like Ultron's molecular re-arranger) device.

I thought this was a fun nod. I'm sure Tony's glad someone didn't recognize him while he's on the run.

Source: Iron Man Execute Program & Director of Shield (by Knaufs)

It would be so cool if Joshua Williamson is able to make Iron Man a serious competent badass character again, feels like for more than a decade, he's mostly been turned into a wisecracking character.

I really like ZD Toys’s mold, such a shame that their paint job looks cheap. Here’s my attempt to fix their plastic-y finish!

said book ends with the Makulan ring landing on earth

The "Age of Iron" is coming after Iron man 700

Barely remember anything about Naruto but that one stuck with me, weird show to make that reference. How popular was the MCU in Japan anyway?

Since the Anton Vanko iteration of Whiplash is a major antagonist of the current Iron Man run, I thought it would be fun to retrospect his debut.

I personally enjoyed it. Since Marco Scarlotti has been dead for a little bit when this came out, I'm not against making a new Whiplash inspired by the upcoming Iron Man 2. I thought the mystery of the fake Iron Man attacking Volstok was interesting and the reveal at the end was interesting too. The makeshift armor Tony made in prison was pretty neat. Not very practical for combat but perfectly displays how intelligent and scrappy Tony is. I do however think that naming the new Whiplash 'Anton Vanko' was a mistake. While the Crimson Dynamo Anton Vanko had been dead for decades and people in real life do share the same name sometimes, I think it's a confusing writing decision.

give her the burb!