If this sounds a little bit like the classic “Armor Wars” story, you wouldn’t be far off-Tony brings up that adventure and a hologram of the various people he believes to be using his technology includes Stingray, Firepower, the Raiders, Mach IV (who was the Beetle back then) and the Mandroids. His plans hinge around suicide bombs based off of Stark technology. The Stane in question is Ezekiel Stane, son of Obadiah, a homicidal sociopath who can barely be considered human after all the changes he’s made to his body. Because the movie was so good and incredibly true to the character, the comic book and film elements mesh nicely. On the other hand, this is clearly set in the current Marvel universe Tony is the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. The villain bears the last name of Stane, Pepper Potts looks quite a bit like Gwyneth Paltrow, arc reactor technology comes into play and the banter between Iron Man and War Machine wouldn’t sound odd coming from Robert Downey Jr. On one level, it appears to be a deliberate movie tie-in. Marvel found a rather brilliant solution in their second Iron Man title, Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca’s The Invincible Iron Man, the first seven issues of which have been collected into The Five Nightmares. Would readers really get into Iron Man, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.? As a big Iron Man fan, I personally wondered what Marvel would do to cash in on the film, which presents a rather accurate picture of Iron Man. Spider-Man was given organic web shooters in a pretty terrible story in order to sync up with the films. Marvel found this out after viewers of the first X-Men film found that the X-Men comics of the time were rather impossible to crack into for newcomers (though this eventually led to Grant Morrison’s New X-Men). It’s sometimes tricky for a comic book company to coordinate its comics with its movies so that the latter can drive business for the former.
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