chrismarker
07-27-2005, 08:00 PM
For IM#4. Third time I've tried to get it, each time confronted by the same snobby "I'm above super hero comics" sales dude indolence, and well, you know it gets you thinking...Ellis better not take the chessy route out and have Mallen walk away after smashing the car over IM's head, presuming him dead. That would suck. That would not be worth the wait. But I can't figure any other way out plotting wise, short of really going for the extreme and having him try to bite a chunk of armor out of IM's neck. Yeah. That would be worth the wait. (I look at the snobby comic dude's neck). "It's still not in. It's been delayed longer. Check with me next week," he says unaplogetically, returning to the more serious pages of graphic literature. So I think, man, I hope something really unexpected happens with Maya. I mean Adi's leaked cover is great if you want to fuck her, but how long does that last in real life to say nothing with a comic girl? If she did take a dose of Extremis, that'd be worth the wait. "Hey, who else is doing stuff like Ellis and Granov," I say to snobby. "Like I said, I don't really read the super hero stuff." Yeah, so, I start thinking, I've got a right to write my own IM story line. Don't we all? And dammint, I've waited long enough. And I'm not about to wait in some mile long Marvel line at the Chicag Comic con just to tell Adi my idea only to hear him say "that's nice Chris, but I'm legally not allowed to have this conversation." No, sir, not me, not after enduirng three+ months of snobby comic dude. So I'm ranting. Here's my idea. Or what I've got so far. I'm a socialist, so I don't care who does what to it, and I invite all to do what they will to it. (even if you think it sucks: I DON'T CARE.) So it plays along the lines of horror I've been espousing without response now since May. A major thread is the Frankenstein storyline I've posted, where IM's armor becomes sentient and imprisons Tony who performs a series of dangerous experiemnts to separate himself. They fail and his flesh becomes fused with the armor, the armor becomes his flesh. He transforms into something hideous to look at and he hates himself. (Lots of fun to play with here). So the next part, which I haven't posted is this. The whole descent into the "Horrible Iron Man" is preceded by an almost cliche like mission: Say, Iron Man has to rescue the President's daughter (played by a Katie Holmes look-alike) from "terrorists." But the mission is really a trap. What's really going on is the new head of the CIA sees the key to maintaining U.S military power is through creating an army of "Ironmen." (Has this been done? because I've missed a lot of years of IronMan). To accomplish this, he needs to get a piece of Iron Man's armor, which he intends to slice off while IM is alive (he doesn't want to take any chances that the purity of the armor will be compromised if he actually kills him). So, somehow Tony/IM escapes, wounded, and heads back to his lab, to try to develop a new form of armor that can combat an army of "Ironmen." Okay, it's starting to fizzle, but it's what I thought while waiting...