Yeah, but Walt was batting cleanup for Rob Liefeld. My grandma would kick major ass in that situation!

I think he was in a more difficult posotion. Liefeld had a made a huge mess.  Mr.Simonson even made me care about Liefeld's Thor while bringing the true Thor back. 

He even took advantage of the Heroes Reborn universss nature (being created by Franklin Richards) and tied it into the story. 

I had already knew that Walt Simonson was a fantastic writer, but that convinced me he should be nominated for sainthood.

I'm somehow picturing Tony now having a talking car which transforms to become his Armor . . . as Tony takes off on a tour of Germany as a singing sensation.

(incidentally, i agree about Walt's job with HR Avengers, made it a very fun read for the few months it had left of life. )

I guess now Tony Stark really IS Iron Man....

If Marvel keeps this up, the next thing you know, Peter Parker will evolve into an actual spider....

John Benson wrote: The new Iron Man issues are a six part series right?

Last I heard it's meant to be the new ongoing series with Ellis only writing the first six issues.

John McMahon: Last I heard it's meant to be the new ongoing series with Ellis only writing the first six issues.

I say a prayer every day that Marvel will just consider the Ellis/Granov IRON MAN an out of continuity limited series so that we can just move on without all this crap that's being shoveled into the character.

I know that's not an artist working on one of the Spider-books, so I'm not even going to comment on the art.  Suffice it to say, I find that to be a horrible costume.  Just terrible.  I wasn't sure if Marvel could get any farther away from their flagship character than they already have, but I was proved wrong.

Rob had mentioned that he thought this would be a temporary change.  If so, then I guess it's OK, although the whole idea behind this "Iron Spider Design" (Joey da Q's description visa vie Tony Stark designing it for Peter) runs so counter to the character I have a hard time imagining what would preclude such a change.  da Q also mentions gadgets, but to my mind Spider-Man has never been about gadgets.  He has/had his webshooters, his Spider-Tracers and occasionally used the Spider-lamp on his belt, but he's not a gadget character in the vein of Batman or Iron Man.  That, plus Tony Stark saying "My design, my colors" doesn't ring true as something he would say at all. 

All in all, a pretty ugly outing no matter if it's for an arc or an attempt to make it status quo.  To me, Spider-Man's costume is the best design, bar none, of any in superhero comics.  It's instantly recognizable to both the fan and the man-on-the-street in a way that 99.9% of superhero costumes are not. Why change?

Reminds me of the Spider-Man Unlimited cartoon costume, which was itself derivative of the Spider-Man 2099 duds.

Still, pretty butt-ugly. I'm banking on a hoax, maybe a dream. I'd even take an imaginary story.

da Q

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He's been makong some comments lately that indicate some people here (many people here) will be very happy.

No i don't mean he is resigning

Rob had mentioned that he thought this would be a temporary change.

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Not that I have inside info. I just tend to find costume changes and the like can be a fun lark, especially for newer readers who never experienced it, and they can be temporary-espeically with a big movie coming in 2007

Maybe I am wrong and it will last years.  I wouldn;t support that. 

Incidentally that armor thing above only lasted 1 issue I believe-it was unceremoniously destroyed 2/3 through the issue IIRC