The All About Comics Thread 5: Comic Books Ate My Paycheck

Further proof that Chris Sims has too much time on his hands:

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Has anyone ever read the original War Machine/Death of Tony Stark story? It happened around Iron Man #281-ish (around 1992 I think).

It was one of the first comic stories I ever read and I always had a sort of affinity for it. Tony dies when his central nervous system experiences some sort of biological/computer virus. He makes Rhodey CEO of Stark and gives him the new War Machine armor. There's some secondary behind the scenes power grabs by Stark's rivals, but the gist of it is that Tony has himself cryogenically frozen while his medical team writes a software-based central nervous system and brings him back to life.

I just sort of happened upon it and remembered that even though I would probably roll my eyes at a lot of the dialog and plot points, I still enjoyed it. It also has some interesting parallels with the brain reboot Matt Fraction just did.
 
I bought the third JLA Deluxe Edition the other day. It's a definite precursor to the style that Morrison's used in his more contemporary stuff (Particularly Final Crisis), but much rougher. It's lacking a certain fluidity that you're used to seeing in modern comics, because of the trendiness of hyper-decompression. That said, it experiments with a lot of big, unique ideas, which places it leaps and bounds above most of the Avengers drivel that's been published for the last decade or so.
 
Gideon Stargrave said:
I bought the third JLA Deluxe Edition the other day. It's a definite precursor to the style that Morrison's used in his more contemporary stuff (Particularly Final Crisis), but much rougher. It's lacking a certain fluidity that you're used to seeing in modern comics, because of the trendiness of hyper-decompression. That said, it experiments with a lot of big, unique ideas, which places it leaps and bounds above most of the Avengers drivel that's been published for the last decade or so.
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I bought the first 2 volumes having not read them (it's Morrison - that was enough reason for me) and read the first and I just could not get into it at all. I haven't read the 2nd or 3rd because the 1st kind of put me off the whole thing. Maybe I'll give them a shot.
 
Really? Batman stopping a Martian invasion with just a box of matches didn't do ANYTHING for you?
 
E said:
I bought the first 2 volumes having not read them (it's Morrison - that was enough reason for me) and read the first and I just could not get into it at all. I haven't read the 2nd or 3rd because the 1st kind of put me off the whole thing. Maybe I'll give them a shot.
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I have most of that run, volume 2 American Dreams (the one that introduces Zauriel) is by far the best trade with Rock of Ages, and Strength in Numbers (volumes 3&4 respectively) being pretty good. Volume 1 didn't really grab me at all, and volume 6, World War Three, had all of the problems that Final Crisis suffered through. That is to say that there are too many concepts fighting for screen time, which results in a lot of jumping around to different settings and fights with almost zero explanation for what I'm seeing.
 
My problem with his JLA run is the poor art. If you get past that, it's quite enjoyable.
 
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ProjectX2 said:
My problem with his JLA run is the poor art. If you get past that, it's quite enjoyable.
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I don't care for Howard Porter at all. If I remember correctly he did some work on Fantastic Four with Mark Waid (?) that was pretty bad.
 
That and Mark Waid's following runs on JLA are the greatest done on the characters ever by far.
 
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