Iron Man: The End

[spiffiness88.livejournal.com]

This is my first post to this community which is so full of awesome! Anyway, so as you all probably know, Iron Man: Director of SHIELD is coming to an end. But apparently there is going to be a new Iron Man series/project called Iron Man: The End which is about a 70 year old Tony Stark dealing with aging and possibly the end of his career as Iron Man... And... he's married! (fic prompt? ;p) If you're interested in more info, you can read about it here.

Comments

[geuna.livejournal.com]

Mixed-feelings-mixed-feeling oh WHY do I have mixed feelings about that? I'm always questionable about future stories, because it takes out a little mystery. And I'm wondering how much more he because have possible screwed up between now and then. (wince) Poooor Tony...

[spiffiness88.livejournal.com]

Well I'm sure a lot of things won't turn out the way we'd hoped, and it sounds like it's gonna be angst riddled, but at least it should be interesting. And if it turns out really bad, we can always just consider it some kind of alternate universe. Marvel seems to have loads of those... (ugh the awful-looking Iron Man cartoon coming out aimed at pre-teens for example)

[geuna.livejournal.com]

(sigh) Yeees, THAT cartoon. I had been interested in what it was like, then I heard it was about his teenager self. I told myself "Oookay, that's fine, as long as it's done well I guess..." And then I see previews. They use a fairly cheep 3-D animation, most likely because drawing suits and machines over and over again would drive the animators nuts. Transformer animations back in the day didn't complain, did they!?

As for the comic, I don't know, if feel like they're trying to finish him off. Or even jumping the shark. But this is Marvel, does such a term apply to them?

But if it's drawn and written well, no matter how depressing it might be I'll give it a shot.

[spiffiness88.livejournal.com]

I'm actually more concerned about the contents of the cartoon than the actual look, though something akin to Blur Studio's Iron Man adventures would be totally awesome (the one on MarvelKids.com). But it's also totally unfeasible at the moment because it would take to long to make for a regular tv series, which is why a lot of 3D tv cartoons look cheap. (I work in the 3D Animation industry LOL) Anyhoo, as I was saying, I'm more annoyed they seem to have changed Tony and co. so much just to fit into that particular demographic that it's too obvious and stupid. I mean, I don't think kids have to watch characters that are their own age and are pretty much like them in order to be entertained. Frankly, there's enough of those shows out there already.

When I first saw the article header, I thought, "Oh, no... They're gonna kill him off! GAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" I totally thought for a second that they meant that it was the end of the Iron Man comic books. Scary!

[smilingskull.livejournal.com]

Eeek... I tend to always hate all of Marvel's "The End" stories. I probably won't go anywhere near this. X-Men: The End hand me cringing through the whole dang thing.

I am greatly amused, however, that it took him until 70 to ditch the armor. Pretty fly for an old guy!

[crimsonquills.livejournal.com]

I also definitely have mixed feelings about this project but reading that both Michelinie and Layton will be on it makes me feel a bit more positive. I love Layton's pencils, and Michelinie wrote some of the best Iron Man plots of all time.

And as much as it makes the slasher in me pout, I can't be surprised that he's married. I mean, as much as it might seem like it sometimes, the canon writers aren't actually shipping him with Steve. *grins*

But no matter what happens in this project, I know that I'll consider it, as I do all future-stories (that aren't time travel), to be an Alternate Universe. If nothing else, canonical events in his main title will inevitably make his current timeline inconsistent with any future they dream up, so it pretty much has to be AU.

Thanks for linking to this! I hadn't heard anything about it.

[maybemabel.livejournal.com]

I'm not convinced that Bendis, at least, doesn't ship Tony/Steve at least a little.

[crimsonquills.livejournal.com]

*g* After The Confession, I admit that I have to wonder, too. But I try not to assume. :-)

[key-smith.livejournal.com]

Alright I'm no expert on Marvel science but wouldn't the extremis slow down his aging. Or am i just totally off base.

[avidlydelicious.livejournal.com]

I would think so... but then again it looked like for a while there that they were going to get rid of Extremis... but then yet again...
Oh Marvel! Who knows? xD

[johanirae.livejournal.com]

... What what WHAT?!

Oh wait, they did it for Wolverine also once. At least I GUESS this is a sign that Marvel values Iron Man as a character enough to give him a "The End" series?

Would any of it be considered canon?

[maybemabel.livejournal.com]

I don't think The End series are considered canon. The Wolverine and X-Men ones aren't canon, anyway.

[maybemabel.livejournal.com]

I knew about Iron Man: The End (which I don't plan on reading, to be honest), but I wasn't aware Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. was ending. DDD:

I guess it makes sense, but that really sucks. Do you have a link to the article/interview that talks about this?

[spiffiness88.livejournal.com]

Here's (http://comics.ign.com/articles/893/893880p1.html) the link to the IGN article. There was also an article on Marvel.com, but I can't find it right now. And yes, it absolutely sucks.