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Apr 21 09 3:46 PM
Bronze Age
Pretty effective, especially given the fact that the villains (who are apparently not even that bad) didn't appear until the second half of the story. It's a testament to the skills of Don Heck and Dick Ayers that they manage to make the desperation of Iron Man so visible and obvious, even though we don't see his face that much. The way he hangs his head in the final panel of page 2, his body language on page 5... This is deep psychological drama, folks! A man trapped inside his own, very strong body! Only he's unable to tell the truth to anyone, even to the woman he loves, or his best friend. Wow. And at the same time the reader sympathises with Pepper and Happy, who are worried about the disappearance of Tony Stark. Such loyal friends all of them, but the secret of Iron Man separates them. We can already see that Hawkeye and Black Widow are not wholly bad, and even manipulative Natasha seems to love his Hawkeye. Another wow! Stan is pretty effective in drafting also villains who are human. The art is really great here, the scenes with Pepper and Happy, even the fight between Hawkeye and Iron Man. Some nice machinery on display as well. A few posts back, we made some jokes about Unus. Well, what do we have here... "There he is... Firing a powerblast arrow at the link chains holding our new Uranus II rocket!" [Emphasis added.] Ur_Anus Too? Stan!
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