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Iron Man Definitely DoableIron Man is among the most practical of condensed symbols because he is definitely doable.Iron Man connects imagination with real-world technologies like those described by D'Souza in "The Virtue of Prosperity."Iron Man as a symbol also connects real-world cloak-and-dagger-type intrigue, described by Ann Coulter's tales of the hero Joe McCarthy in her surprise bestseller, "Treason," (there really were/are communists in the government).Further, Coulter sheds more light onto these possibilities and intrigue with her descriptions of the Intelligent Design debate in another one of her surprise bestsellers, "Godless."However, Ellis' "Iron Man" loses its connection to reality (Iron Man's preeminent virtue as a symbol) when he tries to pull a symbolic bait-and-switch by using as the nemesis, the nebulous concept of "white supremacist" instead of symbolizing real-world villains such as O.J., Ayers and the beltway snipers; or real-world terrorists such as Muslim extremists.But this politically correct impurity is smelted and hammered out of Iron Man's refined and tempered armor in the 2008 movie,where Rhodey's role and dialog symbolizes the vacuous and preferential treatment concept of affirmative "dumbing down.".
The art is amazing. The best I've seen in comics. The story is pretty good too.
It's just a really fun read if you like Iron Man. Okay, I really started getting into Iron Man after the blockbuster film came out. I'm not too crazy about the art though, that's just me. So I didn't really know where to start comic-wise, after reading reviews about "Extremis" I decided to give it a shot, the shot was definitely worth it. It follows his origin great. I tend to like the more comic-book looking comics, than the more realistic art. But this still gets 5 stars because I enjoyed it A-LOT.
After going a while not reading superhero comics (been reading back issues of The Losers, Queen & Country, etc). The art was top notch but I felt pretty unfulfilled afterward. the movie hype for the IM film piqued my interest in this old favorite. After reading those other books, with deep complex stories, I found this too light. My next superhero titles will probably be going back to The Ultimates and the like. Better writing.
Nice simple story to re-introduce Iron Man to the 21st century. The only downside is Adi Granov's very static & flat art.Good place to start after seeing the movie.
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