This post was supposed to go online Yesterday on Bob Layton´s 65th birthday - and I already had all the pictures lined up - but as usual other things came up. But there have been so many birthday posts lately where I have managed to prepare the material but didn´t get to post that I am trying to slowly work my way through the pile over the next few weeks.
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One of the reasons why I wanted to make this post - besides reminding people what a great book IRON MAN was and who laid the foundation for everything you see in the movies - is that it has been two years since I wrote my last Bob Layton post. And that was not even an Iron Man post since I took a look at his HERCULES series. So it has been three years since our last Bob Layton ( and David Micheline and John Romita Jr. ) Iron Man post and while I don´t have anything new or especially insightful to say there has been a lot of original art accumulating which I want to post.
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As you might have guessed from the title most of the art in this post falls around the famous DEMON IN A BOTTLE storyline and usual I try to find the according color pieces to the original art pages but there are a few unpublished covers here so there is no color version available for them.
I wish I could recommend something to read but the current IRON MAN books are just written so badly and don´t even make sense. I mean, in ARMOR WARS Tony Stark went to any length - even risking killing people - to make sure his technology doesn´t get into the wrong hands but now he suddenly condones the theft of intellectual property and hands over the keys to his kingdom because she´s a girl. Yeah, sounds about right. I guess the only comic books where you can read the real Iron Man is in the Epic Collections or the IRON MAN BY DAVID MICHELINE, BOB LAYTON AND JOHN ROMITA JR omnibus hardcover which longtime readers might remember I pimped heavily when it was offered at amazon for 57 bucks. And I guess all readers who followed my advice and bought a copy are now glad that they did since now the price for it is ridiculous. Anyway, let us return to the glory days when Tony Stark was cool and the only time he went up against Captain America was in the Avengers´ gym to learn self defense moves.
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nastarovye
One of the reasons why I wanted to make this post - besides reminding people what a great book IRON MAN was and who laid the foundation for everything you see in the movies - is that it has been two years since I wrote my last Bob Layton post. And that was not even an Iron Man post since I took a look at his HERCULES series. So it has been three years since our last Bob Layton ( and David Micheline and John Romita Jr. ) Iron Man post and while I don´t have anything new or especially insightful to say there has been a lot of original art accumulating which I want to post.
As you might have guessed from the title most of the art in this post falls around the famous DEMON IN A BOTTLE storyline and usual I try to find the according color pieces to the original art pages but there are a few unpublished covers here so there is no color version available for them.
I wish I could recommend something to read but the current IRON MAN books are just written so badly and don´t even make sense. I mean, in ARMOR WARS Tony Stark went to any length - even risking killing people - to make sure his technology doesn´t get into the wrong hands but now he suddenly condones the theft of intellectual property and hands over the keys to his kingdom because she´s a girl. Yeah, sounds about right. I guess the only comic books where you can read the real Iron Man is in the Epic Collections or the IRON MAN BY DAVID MICHELINE, BOB LAYTON AND JOHN ROMITA JR omnibus hardcover which longtime readers might remember I pimped heavily when it was offered at amazon for 57 bucks. And I guess all readers who followed my advice and bought a copy are now glad that they did since now the price for it is ridiculous. Anyway, let us return to the glory days when Tony Stark was cool and the only time he went up against Captain America was in the Avengers´ gym to learn self defense moves.
nastarovye