Can you round up a bus full of hobos to help write it? I haven't had a chance to work on the next chapter yet; I've been refereeing soccer almost every night this week.




Well, the original Whiplash fight was mostly Iron Man just standing in one spot to Whiplash could continue to flail at him. I actually liked the fight between Tony and Rhodey at Tony's birthday party, though I don't know if they explained how Rhodey powered up the old suit without an arc reactor in his chest.

I do remember thinking though when Whiplash showed up in his armour at the end (which should have been red for two reasons; one to acknowledge they'd combined the Crimson Dynamo with Whiplash for the villain, and two so he stood out more from the War Machine armor visually) that they committed a cardinal Iron Man sin; they had Whiplash create the more powerful armor.

Tony is supposed to be the ultimate inventor in his story, but here we have someone else building a more powerful suit of armor (in the first story we had the plot device of Tony running on a primitive version of the arc reactor that was never designed to power his newer suit). If Whiplash hadn't been dumb enough to open up his mask I don't even know if "crossing the streams" would have worked.







I guess Justin Hammer was supposed to be the villain doing that, but really he was a whole new character with the only similarity being the name (and company I guess). Kind of like Nick Fury really; familiar name, new character. I didn't necessarily mind the type of characte Hammer was, he just wasn't Justin Hammer.







The more I see of Fury the more it bugs me, actually. He doesn't look like the head of SHIELD to me; his agents run around in suits, not military uniforms, and he's not dressed in either.