A Few of My Safe-Rated Things

Strongest memory from Iron Man Comics: the much maligned briefcase. Carry that around, use the club, be creative. Seen on TV as "The Iron Pochade." Includes shadow puppet foldable diagram and method metal-miming handbook. I almost want to make my own.

The Ultimate Team-Up

My first Iron Man comic featured Shellhead and Prince Namor in roughly similar, though less dynamic poses. The Iron Movie was rather great-- though the villain was a bit unworthy, a bit murky as far as ultimate villains go. Anyone else feeling the timely inclusion of some Chinese adversaries anyone? Mandarin? Fing Fang Foom?


Just a little ponderous puffery from the little dork inside.

Industrial Fight Bright

Another favorite suit was in my second comic --also Iron Man-- issue 219, the first of a 2-issue story featuring a hereunto elusive supervillain, 'the ghost.' The chap could turn invisible and walk through walls, plus some other, digitally-based and thoroughly unmemorable power. He might've been bald or balding, to boot.

I'm still quite passionate with the cold, silver aspects of that suit. Wait. Yeek. Dang. I only just remembered the actual structure of Tony's metal duds being quite angular and minus the hip phones. But hip phones always help.



I love it when people hand me hilarious drawing prompts. Consider me thematically prompted.

Iron Bam

Getting pumped for the Iron Man movie. Realized just the other day how much Tony and Rhodey totally rocked my mental mega man. Heck, my first real comic book was an Iron Man Annual with Namor as his tense and hesitant super wingman. Bought in a drugstore in Maine.




Those little widgets slung around belt? Hip phones. Similar saddledrags won't be hip for another decade or so, but just you wait.


Stark Enterprises: a thought ahead.


A thought a head.


A thought; a head.