Stark Resilient, or whatever Tony's little helpers are called. (part 1)

[blackruzsa]

 I'm still on the quest, you see. Anyways, if there's anybody who cares about this as much as I do, I wanted to make it easier for them. 

So I gathered pages from Invincible Iron Man which focus solely on the team that Tony put together, his motley crew of engineers. What little characterization they have is still pretty fun.

Of the team, we have: 
Carson Wyche
Tim Cababa
L. Pimacher
W. Macken


I like these guys. Honestly, I do. Potential wasted if they don't appear more. My hopes aren't high, but I do have them for the supposed mole storyline Tony seems to be kicking up once more. 

First appearances first. Invincible Iron Man #28. 7 pages. 



Long flight being a total of 16 hours. And that's the shorter route. The longer route is about 18. 




Tony comes back later after a set of.... well, many things. Saving the world, bitching with Maria Hill, some such. 













Okay, Mrs. Aborgast's point pose here is absolutely hilarious. 

They're major up until issue 33.... and it's difficult to know where they appear after that. But I will find out. 

I'll post the rest soon. 
 

Comments

[mrstatham]

So.. Why would these guys actually sit around waiting for Tony? I've got the trade in question, and all of them seem to actually have jobs and purposes outside of working with Stark. That Carson Wyche opts to work for Tony again after he got treated like shit - I absolutely hated that sequence - Is ridiculous, too.

But that's Fraction's run in a nutshell. Same old stories and ideas, and everyone else is more interesting than the dickbag lead.

[jarodrussell]

Why would these guys actually sit around waiting for Tony?

Because anyone in the MU who gets it up in their head that they might be capable of innovating and developing a new means of something goes to Double Secret SHIELD Jail if they don't have Tony Stark's blessing and piece of the pie.

[blackruzsa]

Well technically, Cababa wanted a new job and Macken was small time up to this point, so yeah they'd wait.

IDK about Wyche and Pimacher, they seem to have better things to do with their time.

[mrstatham]

It still doesn't add up to me, since Tony announces that he has nothing left, in public, so these guys are going to be basically working for nothing when they could be finding jobs that'll actually pay.

Wyche should definitely have better things to do with his time. Any of the big car companies would snap his team and ideas up immediately, and I don't know anyone who'd go back to work under Tony the way Wyche does after the shameful way Tony fires him in this story's flashback sequences.

[misterbug]

A student of the Land School of Bland and Jarring Photoreferenced Figures, it would seem.

[blackruzsa]

Pretty much.

[glimmung]

Looks like Fraction has been reading up on resilient communities and other global guerilla stuff.

[jarodrussell]

I hope his idea of "resilient community" is as laughably wrong as his notion of what "open source" meant during the Zeke Stane arc. I could use a bitter laugh.

[blackruzsa]

Explain?

[jarodrussell]

All I see when I look at Tony Stark is the grim realization that I spent ten years thinking I was reading about Steve Wozniak when I was reading about Steve Jobs, and then everything goes red and I lose track of time.

[baxter2814]

GAH! That hideous Uncanny Valley artwork! It's burning into my soul! Cannot unsee! Must...wash...brain...

[halloweenjack]

That was my thought exactly. There's just something about the way he does Tony's mouth that is completely wrong, like a shapeshifter who just can't get that one last bit right.

[icon_uk]

Have to say, not loving the art, or certainly not the weirdly uinnatural colouring and shading technique that may be covering up some decent linework. And I preferred Mrs Arbogast as being the fairly terrifying, ultra efficient,rather stone faced soul whose heart of gold was very, VERY well hidden, not the sort to offer cookies around.

[eamelion]

I'm not a fan of the coloring that's been used on Larocca for years either. I don't think anything he's done has been up to the quality of the X-Treme X-Men covers (which I prefer over the actual interior work he did for that series).

[mrstatham]

He definitely did better work back during the X-Treme days, before he got over-reliant on photoreferencing. Compare this stuff to that really cool cover of Rogue with the VR-Fighting Game setup, and it can't catch up.

[blackruzsa]

Maybe her vacation time softened her up.
Her LONG vacation time.

[valismedsen]

“Anyways, if there's anybody who cares about this as much as I do, I wanted to make it easier for them.”

Thank you!
I just wanted to say, blackruzsa, that as someone who never bothered with Iron Man comics before the movie, this title has got me hooked since its beginning. I care a lot about these stories!
(And sometimes I feel like they are keeping the movie’s loveable Tony from Downey Jr. alive in my heart, while I'm waiting to see him again.)
I actually don’t mind the art, I like the story ideas, the development with the support characters, the sciency facts, everything.
So, +1 here!

[blackruzsa]

Thank you <3 I mean, you're welcome.
TBH I don't like Fraction writing when it comes to Tony (which is unfortunate since the title's Iron man) but he's good with other characters. I got used to the art.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Don't care about the story, indifferent to the art...

... but a chocolate chip and lavender cookie sounds most agreeable.

[blackruzsa]

I've never tasted anything with lavender in them.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

I have tasted goat cheese with lavender and fennel in it. Odd, but tasty (and quite nice in a fruit salad composed of stonefruit topped with a balsamic reduction).

[blackruzsa]

Sounds so good.