Iron Man: Fatal Frontier #6

[arbre_rieur]

"Eli is a new character and he's my tribute to Warren Ellis who created Extremis -- the character is heavily inspired by him. Warren is comics' great futurist, and if he had gotten together with a gang of criminals and scientists in an attempt to develop the future, he would have been like Eli." -- Kieron Gillen

(Note: Keep in mind that this is one of Marvel's online Infinite Comics. They're designed to be read on a digital device, with each page replacing the previous one on your screen. When the pages are instead side-by-side, stacked vertically, like in this post, it can make for an awkward reading experience. Also, the format makes page count a tricky matter, but if you count each "slide" as a page, then this is under 1/3 of the issue.)

This issue takes place mostly concurrently with last issue, where Tony Stark attended a launch party for a Cortex, Inc. product, during which time he foiled an attempted gunpoint robbery of the guests. This issue reveals what really went down.















So while Eli's people stage a stick-up to divert security away from the door, he and the Iron Man suit get to work breaking through that door:



However, while the robbers have successfully diverted all the human security personnel, the same can't be said for another type of security.



They're able to take down the robots, but the "record" part tells them they've pretty much been caught red-handed. Nevertheless, there's no sense in turning back now. (And by this point, flesh-and-blood Tony at the party has "defeated" the armed thieves, to the gratitude of the other guests.)









Tony -- still remotely controlling the suit -- starts ruminating at length about the nature of heist movies.





Later, Tony's actual physical self arrives at New Modernist HQ too, delivered by robo-limo ride.



















Next issue: What *really* really went down.

Comments

[freezer]

Not quite sure what Tony was playing at here (haven't read the comic, past what's been posted here) but he's coming pretty near the douchetasticness his Earth's Mightiest Heroes counterpart did, gloating to Simon Williams about taking over his company, but didn't think to tell him why until after Simon got righteously pissed at him.

There might be a good reason to do what he did there (even if I'm not sure WHAT he did), but being a smug dick about it is usually a bad idea.

[monkey12]

I thought that it was kind of accepted at this point that before anything else, before being a man of business, before being a technological innovator, before being an Avenger, being a smug dick is Tony Stark.

[arilou_skiff]

*nods*

There are three people who are dicks first and foremost: Tony Stark, Namor, and Quicksilver. (although they're dickish in their own unique ways)

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Huh, is that Extremis?

[arbre_rieur]

Yes. Someone stole the secret to Extremis early in Gillen's run on the main book, and I believe Eli Warren was one of the people who eventually managed to get their hands on the info.

[captainbellman]

Calling it: Dr. Eli Warren is based on longtime Iron Man writer Warren Ellis.

I mean, come on. The name, the look, the Britishness, the trying to make Tony out to be the villain...

[skemono]

Is that really "calling it" when that's stated in the post you're commenting on?

[donnblake]

The quote at the top of the page where Kieron Gillen says that Dr. Eli Warren is based on Warren Ellis...

[cainofdreaming]

Alex Hayden? No, wait, no "X" scar. So those guys must have just stolen his shades. Bastards.

[psylynce]

Hah! I knew something was up with those hit man glasses. Tiny victory dance.

[leoboiko]

second scan: his nose is meltiing