Stark Resilient, or whatever Tony's little helpers are called. (part 2)

[blackruzsa]

Here's to fun!
Whoever's read the comics would know what happens here, and those who haven't get minimal context, but probably enough. 

As you well know from my last post, the engineers have been tasked by Tony Stark to build a super car. In six weeks. 

Meaning they have to have no distractions, work on it night and day, etc etc

Which means.... house mates~





They do eventually, for the Expo, which is targeted by.... well, Hammer. 

In the form of a cell phone app. 












and it explodes. 

Later...



I think this question served the purpose of Tony making sure he didn't fire Wyche for other reasons, and so he could trust him with his suspicions: 




They begin the race the next day, everyone on their toes. Well, almost everyone. Anyways...






.... pfft. Tell me you haven't lit up in childish glee like this. 

As it turns out, Pimacher's weird ways probably helped save the day. By a few seconds. Still. 





It's the race track Tony's on at this very moment. 





And there's another explosion, which saves Pim from getting hit by a car. 






And here we see why Tony hired these guys. 







Pepper goes through a near-death, out of body experience with Happy in her mind, Tony beats Hammer just for the day, and they're able to use the chase for a commercial to advertise the car. 




Stark Resilient is the company, and the men who make up the company definitely piqued my interest. 


Part 3's last. 
 

Comments

[espanolbot]

And then some jerk in Congress writes up the "Stop the Jobkilling Stark Electric Car Bill" and the status quo is preserved.

[blackruzsa]

I imagine that's why it has yet to be marketed to the general public.

[jarodrussell]

More like Tony found out people were using repulsor batteries to power drug labs, sweat shops, or their own homemade armor and sent out a kill signal that shut them all down, fused their parts, and fueled the next "Tony rebuilds everything from scratch" arc that people so love.

[arctis]

I hate absolutely everyones faces in this, except for the Iron Man face-plate.

EVERYONE COMMENTING, PLEASE READ THIS.

[blackruzsa]

I got used to it.
And it's not really bad art, even if referencing heavily. It's hit and miss, I suppose.

And....

I'm honestly getting tired of the fact that most, if not all comments on my posts concerning IIM are only "I hate the art" and "I hate Matt Fraction".

Not you personally, just to be clear, I just wanted to get this out in the open, but this message is for anyone else who's gonna try leaving a comment of either nature.

[valtyr]

Oh, God, can't even with this art. I tried.

[valtyr]

I actually quite like the concept of the gameplayers being air support? I mean, I know it's basically a crowdsourced Ender's Game, but it's pretty smooth.

I mean the art doesn't all suck. That panel where Tony is all "I knew before you even got to me", and he's lit from below left, that's pretty good. But then in some panels Pim's double chin seems to be jutting forward further than his first chin, which is upsetting.

[silverzeo]

Huh... wonder how long until that eye thing will change... its those little things like that get forgotten or bite the user in the butt...

[blackruzsa]

He doesn't seem to use it outside of the suit in the more recent issues.

[jarodrussell]

That explnation for how the drones works makes my head hurt. You've got a swarm of drones being controlled by random pilots who're radnomly switched into different drones and somehow they magically don't crash into each other? That's not really how BitTorrent works, that's more like Chat Roulette. That's like trying to use Chat Roulette to drive a car in traffic where everyone else is using Chat Roulette to dive cars.

Why do comic book writers even pretend they understand how networking works? *sigh*

[blackruzsa]

As many things in comics.

[drmcninja]

I mean, then again, it is a comic book. Its a means to get a fun idea across and executed very well, while putting up a facade of logic. Its how comics work.

[halloweenjack]

It reminds me of Warren Ellis' story in Ultimate FF that introduced Ultimate Dr. Doom, where Doom had a swarm of hundreds of these robot insects that were supposedly coordinating their actions with Bluetooth--only BT can only support a group of 8 (at least that was the case when the comic was written). So what, you might say, Doom hacked it to support larger groups. Well, then, it's not Bluetooth. (In the same arc, he had Reed talking about his iPod, which also struck me as wrong--Reed would have hacked up his own MP3 player that could have done so many more things than an off-the-shelf player.) It's like they read about these things, don't really get how they work, but throw them in just to be buzzword-compliant.

[shatners_bassoon]

Well, I for one don't understand all the hate Fraction gets around here - he's my favourite Iron Man writer after Warren Ellis. I read Relentless the other week and I was impressed by the tone, the plotting and the direction that Fraction is taking Tony in - although I will be disappointed if he doesn't get enough time to play out the "free energy" storyline before the inevitable return to the status quo.

As for the art, I'm neutral, although I can see why it could be off-putting for some. Maybe a change of colourist, to somebody with a less washed-out style, would help?

[blackruzsa]

Fraction's a great writer, far as I've seen. He handles Tony like Tony's a bastard about 90% of the time, which is about 20% more than usual, but otherwise he's good.

[damianwayne]

The art's all photoshopped / "referenced" and that's not good, but it's not unreasonably terrible. I've seen Impulse posts on here with a minimal of Humberto Ramos bashing and that man is an abomination who makes a living by committing crimes against pencils and pens everywhere.

Anyway, support cast is cool, Tony comes off a bit too smug. Seems Fraction tried to capture cocky bravado Tony and instead overshot it to land on smarmy douche. Still, I'm liking these supporting guys, and they're what you're showcasing so good show.

[blackruzsa]

Smarmy douche Tony is probably my only real issue here, so yeah :) And yay.

[shanejayell]

I'm in the minority, but I like the book. YES the art has issues, god knows, but the story kept my interest and I like the characters.

(Since when does Pepper's life depend on the technology? The repulser unit got removed in Stark Reassembled and she seemed okay?)

[mrstatham]

She basically bribed Tony into putting the repulser unit back into her during the first half of Stark Resilient, because 'her entire life' was building up to being Rescue, apparently. Tony, of course, is unable to run shit without Pepper Potts, as per Fraction stealing his characterisation from the Iron Man movies, and was forced to comply. She had the repulsor unit reinstalled, although I don't particularly get why, when Rhodey can apparently run War Machine armour without one installed in her body.

[neuhallidae]

I miss Mrs. A's bite, because her bluntness was one of the best things about her, but the rest of the support cast is starting to flesh out decently again, as is Pepper, now that she's off that...whatever the fuck was going on with her characterization in Dark Reign and Siege. I'm actually really liking her as Rescue.

However, I just... can't with Fraction's handling of Tony specifically. The tone never fits in with what's going on around him. I know it's supposed to reinforce that he's not on the level of everyone else because he's a genius, but as handled, it doesn't come off that way at all. He just looks like an even smarmier, more oblivious douche than he's been at his worst, during a time period when he should have already learned better (again). And maybe this is me being overly pedantic, but I still haven't forgiven Fraction for completely and utterly fucking up something as defined as Tony's drinking history, and reducing a character as important to his past as Ho Yinsen is to "some old guy".

There are parts where Fraction manages to make things look fine, but for me, that just makes the areas where he's tone deaf look even more blatant, particularly since his tone deafness is centered around the main character he's writing.

Motto

[blackruzsa]

Not once have I seen Tony acting like a decent person, though I've enjoyed the issues quite a bit.

[jlbarnett]

so it wouldn't need gas. It's need electricity and that means there's a good chance it'd need coal or nuclear power. Repulsars are the result of power generation, not a power generator

[blackruzsa]

Gotta wonder why it hasn't sold yet.

[leoboiko]

They should have prefixed those lines with a # to avoid getting those annoying error messages. Hope at least they recalled to history -c—and that StarkFS auto-wipes.

[blackruzsa]

I'm gonna pretend I understand.
No, I can't.

But it's obvious you know what you're talking about so I won't ask.

[heckfire]

...so...I'm in the minority by saying I kinda like this story? Geez, no wonder we can't have nice things...

[blackruzsa]

I enjoy it much :3 I guess some people just can't get past the art and Iron douche.

[omnipotent]

The car reminds me of the Lamborghini Embolado concept.

[halloweenjack]

I can understand the frustration if you have something that you really like and people keep saying "no, it sucks", over and over again. Look at it this way: if it were just hopeless--if people didn't like anything about the book, or enough to see some potential there--nobody would say anything because they just wouldn't care. Sometimes, it's the comics that almost get it right that are the most aggravating.

Still, though, there are instances in which you can't skip over the parts that you don't like that easily. (There's an American expression that I don't know if you're familiar with it--"Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"--based on the fact that Abraham Lincoln was watching a play with his wife when he was assassinated.) If it were just a matter of reading the word balloons, as you suggest above, comic writers could just publish their scripts and Alan Moore wouldn't have to worry about pissing off one of his artists, or vice versa, ever again. There are some things that just sort of bring the show to a screeching halt. (An example from another media is the movie Sixteen Candles, an early John Hughes movie which is mostly a sophisticated examination of high school life and romance, but which incorporates a really hideous caricature of an Asian transfer student. I've occasionally wondered if it would be possible to do an edit of the film that got rid of Long Duk Dong entirely, except that he's essential to the plot at one point.)

So, tl;dr: I yell because I care. Fraction and Larocca could have a really excellent comic if they tweaked a few things.

[blackruzsa]

Well my frustration isn't that people don't like what I'm talking about, but they don't seem to notice where my focus is and they're easily distracted by the same things over and over again. It's tiresome.

But I don't mind when people go into rants. I enjoy learning more about people's opinions a whole lot more than a normal person should. I'm simply pointing out that rants aside, there wasn't more than a single comment about the subject at hand (the people in the company) the last time I posted. That was what irked me.

So yell on, I don't mind, just mention the topic somewhere in the midst of it.