Beverly Hills Cop 4 with Eddie Murphy - another 48 hrs
Eddie Murphy himself actually approached Paramount with the idea of reviving the franchise and reprising his role as Detroit detective Axel Foley.
Wow how do you actually get a bad review for Beverly Hills Cop 4 before your movie even comes out.
Here's another one to add to the long list of dreaded revivals - Beverly Hills Cop. But that's not the worst of it. Brett "I Ruined the X-Men Franchise" Ratner has been hired as the director for Beverly Hills Cop IV and Eddie "I'm Not Funny" Murphy will be back, too.
That's pretty harsh so I have an idea for Eddie. Forgette Beverly Hills Cop 4, Eddie Murphy , Do another 48 hrs, with Nick Nolte.
Get Nick pissed though first before you start filming.
Do a remake of another 48 hrs. Call it Another Another 48 hrs. Make Nick Nolte the convict and Eddie can play a cop who get's him out for another another 48 hrs. Just picture this.
Roxan; you don't have to put on the red light
Eddie walks in and Nick is singing.
Man I should work in Hollywood.
Beverly Hills Cop 4 with Eddie Murphy - another 48 hrs
Giant 'telescope' links London, New York
I've been up all night working so I'm a little drowsy but did CNN just report a Giant 'telescope' links London, New York. Well they did and guess what if you want a Giant 'telescope' links London, New York you can have one as well if you like. Just go online and meet some kind of mod rocker from Jollie old England and say. Hey governer how would like to make a schilling or two doing a web cast. Giant 'telescope' links London, New York my ass.
Giant 'telescope' links London, New York
In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the Telectroscope: an 11.2-meter-(37 feet) long by 3.3-meter-(11 feet) tall dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean. (Think 19th-century Webcam. Or maybe Victorian-age video phone.)"The whole thing is about seeing what is real and what isn't real and how the world is," said Nicki Webb, a co-founder of Artichoke. "Is it nighttime when we are in daytime, and does it look familiar to us or not?" And all the credit goes to British artist Paul St. George.
The vision of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St. George had finally been realized. Ok I'll agree with statement but COME ON. I've been thinking about having the first telescope from London to my ass.
Maybe one day my son with rummage through my papers and make this dream come true.
What's real is that it's a web cam with no f@%^#$@# sound, how lame is that. What isn't real is a direct line of sight to London. I don't know, i'm a little dissapointed. I was hoping for some kind of trick bending light, beam the dam telescope off a satelight or something.
This is not new; it happens everday only with better picture, sound and sometimes people get naked. With this thing you wait in line for days and get 5 minutes to make funny faces at people you don't know. Oh but wait; The Telectroscope will be on display and open to the public 24 hours a day in London and New York until June 15. Artichoke is arranging requests to synchronize special reunions between friends and family or, the company hopes, maybe even a marriage proposal.
Does this mean a fee is involved. How do you arrange to have everyone in place without having the organisers make a profit.
For
Giant 'telescope' links London, New York stop by my place I hooked up some cups and wire and a Giant long tube in my living room. Where having a blast with London and New York.
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The Andromeda Strain ricky schroder saves
earth with his detached thumb
Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller and Ricky Schroder in “The Andromeda Strain,” an A&E mini-series adapted from the Michael Crichton novel
Nuke Utah for whatever reason
and you can kiss your re election goodbye.
Was it the north koreans or is this half baked
intelligence.
Look out Southern California the santa ana winds are bringing the bactirium infirni “The Andromeda Strain,” .
Ricky Schroder says go nuclear but Benjamin Bratt says no
What was that satelite doing anyways? Who puts a bio containment satellite's in orbit, the US? Think about it orbits do decay and voila The Andromeda Strain.
The guy from Will and Grace is on the story though. Utah national guard training excersize my ass.
The lab is set up with the latest Mac the ideathstar. No really they actually have a giant Death Star II reactor core shaft. Ricky Schroder falls to his doom when he learn that Benjamin Bratt is actually his father.
Don't trust that Mancheck, he's one bad bad ass general.
Duck
tape won't save your ass but a good bottle of ripple and some hangover farts
will. Genius absolute genius.
Come on Ricky Schroder you know an anti quagulent just won't do.
So the only potential
survivors of this plague are wino's and coluki babies.
Buckey Balls says the dude from lost - nano technologie way ahead of what
everyone else is doing right now. Hey come on everyone has a nana lab now a days especially people in the future,
oops forget i said that until the end of this blog infirmi "All hope abandon, ye who enter here"
Is it all about the secret government things that go on that no-one knows about. You know this show started off great but just wait buckey balls.
The lifeform, codenamed "The Andromeda Strain," mutates with each growth, causing its properties to change. The scientists discover that it only grows within a narrow range of pH. If the medium for growth is too acidic, the organism will not multiply. If it is too basic, it will not multiply. Only within the range of pH 7.39 to 7.43 (precisely the same range as normal human blood) will it grow well. This explains why Jackson and Ritter survived: both had abnormal blood.
Ricky Schroder is a
little more confrontational than I remember him from Doogey Howser. All jokes aside i liked his character and I
think they should do a game, movie, tv show
all in one.
You're not going to believe this but The Andromeda
Strain has no DNA, what's that you say it's alien.
When you see the
national guard pull out the bio hazard gear it's
time to start poppin aspirin and
drink some aquavelva.
Buckey Balls:
Fullerenes are a family of carbon allotropes, molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, tube, or plane . Spherical fullerenes are also called buckyballs, and cylindrical ones are called carbon nanotubes or buckytubes. Graphene is an example of a planar fullerene sheet. Fullerenes are similar in structure to graphite, which is composed of a sheet of linked hexagonal rings, but may also contain pentagonal (or sometimes heptagonal) rings that would prevent a sheet from being planar.
Fullerenes were discovered in 1985 by Robert Curl, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley at the University of Sussex and Rice University, and are named after Richard buckyballsminster Fuller.
Minute quantities of the buckyballs Buckminsterfullerenes, in the form of C60, C70, C76, and C84 molecules, are produced in nature, hidden in soot and formed by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.[2] Recently, buckyballsminsterfullerenes were found in a family of minerals known as Shungites in Karelhia, Russia.
Project Poop n Scoop - wormhole :
In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that is basically a 'shortcut' through space and time. A wormhole has at least two mouths which are connected to a single throat or tube. If the wormhole is traversable, matter can 'travel' from one mouth to the other by passing through the throat. While there is no observational evidence for wormholes, spacetimes containing wormholes are known to be valid solutions in general relativity.
The term wormhole was coined by the American theoretical physicist John Wheeler in 1957. However, the idea of wormholes was invented already in 1921 by the German mathematician Hermann Weyl in connection with his analysis of mass in terms of electromagnetic field energy.I can't say either way if The Andromeda strain is alien but Ricky Schroder feels they should nuke the town of Peedmont. He's wrong off-course. I thought the President was doing a good job until he agrees to nuke Utah without testing how the Andromeda Strain would react to radiation. Don't worry; Benjamin Bratt is on the job as the Cleaner - the quicker picker upper.
Hey how you doing? Are those bio containment units those soldiers are carrying? Why
would you suppose they would need that? I know what I need, a F$%$^#@ drink of
some that ripple and pass the MuthaF$%$^#@
aspirin.
See i told you; nuking The Andromeda Strain will
only make it grow exponentially, like to the power of 666 or should i say
752431.
So call the president and cancel that nuke order. OH OH the missle rearmed itself and oh shit. END
OF PART 1
Part 2
KaF$%$^#@ boom
That bomb did not go off
accidentally, they have fail safes don't they.
Odd-Man Hypothesis
The “Odd-Man Hypothesis” is a fictional hypothesis articulated in the book and also mentioned by name in the movie. In the book the explanation of Odd-Man Hypothesis is presented as a page from a report by the RAND Corporation on a series of tests where life forms were given command decisions to make during a hypothetical nuclear, biological or chemical crisis. Odd-Man Hypothesis was repeated in the film:
| “ | Results of special testing confirm the Odd-Man Hypothesis, that an unmarried male should carry out command decisions involving thermonuclear or chem-biol destruct contexts. | ” |
The Odd-Man Hypothesis states that unmarried men are capable of carrying out the best, most dispassionate decisions during crises. Odd-Man Hypothesis
Ricky Schroder says it's mutating.
Ok we got large amounts of dead birds outside the blast radius.
Under the homeland security act the entire cast of Will and grace was arrested and shipped to the bay area. But watch out Will gets away and blows up a military helicopter.
So now they try the old scorch and burn; don't knock it till you try it. Worked for the Russians.
The Andromeda Strain is not like anything you
have seen and it's presented by Viagra.
the first time i saw her you know it
set my mind to reeling.
Viva Viagra
Ask your docter is your healthy enough to take viagra.
Viva Viva Viagra
Taking
Viagra with asprin and washed down with
ripple helps prevent the Andromeda
Strain.
Ricky Schroder says that The Andromeda Strain is sulffer based and not carbon based, this could come in handy later on.
caution: When crapping out in the desert beware of rat's infected with The Andromeda Strain; cause they will bite your bum and that's not fun. Better get your Viagra, stock up on asperin and move to Hazard county (for those of you who missed this one: Uncle Jessie from the Dukes of Hazard is a moon shiner and thus imune to the andromeda strain.)
Hold the
phone
Ricky Schroder says: So now the Andromeda strain
communicates.
Maybe radiation servers as a neural network.
Mr. president we were just discussing the fact that
the Andromeda strain is communicating with
itself.
Holly shit the two Corey's are fighting. There going lost boys
style on each other.
Sorry back to the Andromeda strain, Hun pass the Viagra, mmmmm that's good ripple wine.
When you
got nothing left he knows where to find you.
Benjamin
Bratt is the cleaner.
His services are needed with all the dead birds around.
This where is where they loose me. In the original the Andromeda strain is alien in nature but in this version it appears to have been sent back through time so that present day Ricky Schroder can find a cure. Why would the people of the future do this; it's all because of the deep ocean vents. Apparently we started mining minerals in the deep oceans of the earth and killed off the only thing that could kill the Andromeda Strain. Deep ocean bacteria that lives off the warmth of the vents is used to cook up a lethal brew for the Andromeda Strain.
Part 1 wasn't quite so bad, but taken together the 4
hours managed to pack in almost every left wing wacko conspiracy plot possible.
They somehow managed to miss having a covert CIA agent outed to the
press.
Capricorn One meets Fahrenheit 9-11.
A total
ruination of the original book.
It was a sad commentary on contemporary
society that the first inclination of pretty much every character - good or evil
- was to call someone to leak something to.
Yes this is true but the ending makes it all worth while.
With a sample of the deep sea bacteria that Ricky Schroder just happened to be working on a cure was found. The evil CIA agents for some reason decide to blow up the lab with a nuclear bomb. Seems they want to unleash The Andromeda Strain on the world and take over.
So it's up to Ricky
Schroder; He climbs into the Death Star II reactor core followed
by Benjamin Bratt and they begin
to climb.
Suddenly part of the shaft breaks and Ricky
Schroder is hanging on for dear life. Benjamin Bratt tries to save him but
Ricky Schroder knows the extra weight will kill them both.
Ricky Schroder gives Benjamin Bratt his access key and falls
to his death in a pool of liquid radio active goo. Then the guy from lost breaks
into the Death Star II reactor core and he cut's off Ricky
Schroder's thumb. He then climbs to Benjamin Bratt and gives him
Ricky Schroder's thumb cause it's the only way to shut down the
bomb. The guy from lost falls to his doom and lies next to Ricky
Schroder. Oh shit the 2 Corey's are at it again.
Benjamin Bratt is the
only one left who can save the earth. He climbs up the shaft (lol) but then he gets blasted in the eyes and now he's
blind. With only a minute left a blind Benjamin Bratt used the dead Ricky
Schroder's finger to shut down the bomb.
The Andromeda Strain
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thumb
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History Iron Man
Panel from Tales of Suspense #66Iron Man immediately becomes the main character of the series which will eventually be rebaptised Tales of Suspense featuring the power of Iron Man (issue 53). Then, with issue 59, Iron Man begins to share the title with another well known Marvel hero: Captain America.The Tales of Suspense years are very important and introduce many important characters in the Iron Man mythos. Stark's employees and friends, Happy Hogan and Pepper Potts are introduced in issue 45. Some of Iron Man's all-time greatest foes also make their debut in ToS: the Crimson Dynamo (issue 46), the Melter (issue 47), the Mandarin (issue 50), Titanium Man (issue 69) and Whiplash (issue 97). Two of Iron Man's earliest foes will eventually become allies and fellow Avengers; the Black Widow (issue 52) and Hawkeye (issue 57).It is during this period that Iron Man's armor begins to evolve and adapt to new realities and technologies. To know more about the early armors. Iron Man also becomes one of the founding members of Earth's team of mightiest heroes; the Avengers (alongside Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp). Iron Man's career with the Avengers has since been a long and fruitful one with many exciting and memorable moments.
History:1968-1978: THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN The character finally gets his own book in 1968, entitled: «THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN». The first ten years of the book's existence are marked mainly by one man, a great artist; George Tuska. For a decade, his run on IM will be almost uninterrupted. George is an elderly man today, in his mid-80s. This makes his debut on the Golden Avenger's book a late one - for him, at least - he began in his 50s. Mr. Tuska is currently hard of hearing, but his wife has remarked that Iron Man is one of his favorite characters ever. Beginning with the classic issue #5, George was basically THE artist for Shellhead. His early work included epic confrontations with the Mandarin (issues 10-11), the Controller (issues 12-13), and the Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man (issues 21-22). Original artist Don Heck returned for a bit in the late #20s and into the #30s, which included the premiere of the arch-villains Firebrand (issue 27) and Spymaster (issue 33). But along came Mr. Tuska again, who, alongside writer Mike Friedrich, provided most of IM's adventures up 'til his centennial issue. After a somewhat disappointing 20 issues (issues 41 to 60, the only real exception being the death of the original Guardsman in issue 46), we were then treated to some slam-bang action against the likes of Dr. Spectrum, Thor and the Freak (issues 63 to 67), and then immediately after Sunfire, the Mandarin and Yellow Claw (issues 68 to 71) in what was the beginning of the initially cool, but ultimately very lame, "War of the Super-Villains" (which ended in issue 81). (Whether by luck or by design, Mr. Tuska did not draw any of the later "War of the SVs" issues.) Mike Friedrich's writing style was high-powered and very "pro" Iron Man in that he made Tony Stark and his alter-ego very tough hombres to deal with! Bill Mantlo came aboard as writer soon after, who, along with Mr. Tuska did up the battle against Blizzard (issues 86-87), the cosmic Blood Brothers and their, er, "controller" the Controller (issues 88 to 91), the Mandarin-controlled Ultimo (issues 95-96) and Mandy himself (issue 100). George Tuska finished his art chores on IM with issue 106, smack in the middle of the Midas takeover of Stark International yarn. Perhaps his most memorable work (along with Mr. Mantlo) was the "originally a fill-in, but now a classic" issue #78, "Long Time Gone", which recounted a trip to Vietnam by Iron Man. This issue was more recently reprinted in the volume 3 #46 "monster" issue.History:1978-1982: THE MICHELINIE / ROMITAjr / LAYTON RUN This new era is considered by many fans to be the Golden Age of Iron Man. Writer David Michelinie, penciller John Romita Jr and inker Bob Layton are first united in issue 116 of the IM series. The three men are masters of their respective trades and their combined efforts give astounding results. The stories become deeper and more mature and the art shines like the hero's metallic armor. The team offers us a Tony Stark more human and realistic than ever before, a man whose worst enemy is no longer a powerful costumed villain but something even more destructive and that much harder to defeat: alcoholism.An entire cast of supportive characters is also introduced. They are Tony Stark's friends and employees: Stark's new love interest, the beautiful Bethany Cabe (issue 117), the director of Stark International's European operations, Yvette Avril (issue 119) and Stark's personal pilot and best friend, Jim Rhodes (issue 118). Among the most important events of this period, aside from Stark's epic battle against alcoholism which culminated in issue 128, was S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attempt to take over Stark International (issues 118-119), the introduction of two of Stark's greatest business rivals and enemies; Roxxon Oil (issue 121) and Justin Hammer (issue 124), Iron Man's earthshaking battle with the Incredible Hulk (issues 131-133) and the time travelling adventure which pitted him against Doctor Doom and Morgan Le Fay (issues 149-150), to name but a few. Readers are also treated to Iron Man's first specialized armors, perfectly adapted to the requirements of specific missions; the space armor (issues 142-144) and the stealth armor (issue 152).
History:1982-1985: THE ALL-NEW IRON MAN!A new era begins with the arrival of a new creative team. Denny O'Neil writes the stories which are illustrated by artists McDonnell and Mitchell. This is a new and memorable period that will see Tony Stark's downfall, his replacement and eventual return.If Tony Stark was victorious in his first battle against alcoholism, the war was not yet won. In order to aquire Stark International, a new and deadly business rival called Obadiah Stane uses Stark's greatest weakness against him. When the evil Magma attacks Stark International (issue 169), Tony Stark is drunk and unconscious, unable to defend his company and employees. The responsibility falls to Jim Rhodes, who wears the armor for the first time in the now classic issue 170. As Stark's life subsequently falls apart (he eventually loses his company to Stane and ends up as a homeless drunk), Rhodey starts a new one as the armored Avenger. His attempts at understanding and mastering the armor's full capabilities make for a very fun read. Rhodey will have to protect Stark's armors and designs from being aquired by Stane and S.H.I.E.L.D. (issues 174-175) and battle one of Tony's deadliest enemies, the Mandarin (issues 180-181). As for Tony Stark, his fate is decided during a tragic night (issue 182) and he will eventually return to found a new company, along with Rhodey and two of his ex-employees. The tension will rise between the two men when Stark begins work on a new suit of armor. The two Iron Men finally come to blows in issue 192. Rhodey remains as IM, participating in the legendary SECRET WARS alongside Spider-Man, the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. He then becomes one of the founding members of the West Coast Avengers.
History:1985-1987: THE RETURN OF THE ORIGINAL IRON MAN!Obadiah Stane will not permit his old defeated enemy to make a comeback. He bombs Stark's new company (killing one of his associates and badly hurting Rhodey) and kidnaps many of Stark's old friends. Whether he likes it or not, Tony must become Iron Man once more to save the people he loves from the clutches of a madman. To accomplish this task, he puts the finishing touch to his newest armor; the beautiful Silver Centurion Armor. The final battle between Stark and Stane takes place in the pages of the 200th issue. This anniversary issue welcomes a new penciller on board; the very talented Mark Bright. He beautifully illustrates Stark's battles against his old enemies Madame Masque (issue 203) and Modok (issue 205) as well as the beginning of IM's long war against the deadly group of terrorists called A.I.M. (issues 201, 207-208). But every penciller, no matter how talented, needs a good inker to properly enhance his art. With issue 215, Bright will get the greatest inker he ever could have hoped for.
It's every Iron Man fan's fondest dream come true. David Michelinie and Bob Layton, the two men who created some of the greatest IM stories ever told, team up with Mark Bright, one of the book's most talented pencillers. The results are astounding and deserve to be considered the Silver Age of Iron Man.Out of this collaboration will appear one of the greatest and most memorable storylines in the history of Iron Man, the Armor Wars (issues 225-232). Realising that some of his precious designs have been stolen and sold to evil armored criminals, Tony Stark embarks on a crusade to eliminate his stolen technology. He soon becomes obsessed with his mission and even ends up attacking some armored heroes and government agencies in order to erase all trace of his technology. In reaction to these highly publicised events, the Avengers are forced to kick him off the team and Tony Stark must «officially» fire his bodyguard to keep his crusade from damaging his company's reputation (the general public is not aware that both men are one and the same).In the end, the government will have to fund Firepower, the most powerful suit of armor ever created, in order to put an end to Iron Man's rampage. The apparent death of Iron Man will in fact mark the beginning of a new era in the armored Avenger's career and the creation of a new red and gold armor. Stark will subsequently be shot by a jealous ex-lover (issues 242-243) and end up in a wheelchair, until the insertion of an experimental biochip into his spinal chord gives him once more the ability to walk (issue 248). He will then travel through time once more alongside the evil Doctor Doom (issues 249-250), but in the future this time, in a story that ties in with the one that occured in issues 149-150.
History:1990-1992: JOHN BYRNE VISITS IRON MAN Following the departure of Michelinie, John Byrne will take over the writing chores for a while. The legendary writer and artist (well-known for his formidable work on Uncanny X-Men, Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk, Alpha Flight, Avengers West Coast and Superman) will deliver two interesting storylines. The first one, unaptly titled Armor Wars II (issues 258-266), will see evil enemies of Stark take control of his body, thanks to the biochip attached to his spine. The second one, The Dragon Seed Saga (issues 272-275), will reveal some unknown facts about the Mandarin's origin and introduce the giant dragon Fin Fang Foom in the pantheon of IM villains. Shellhead will also take part in one of the Avengers's greatest and most epic battles, Operation Galactic Storm (issues 278-279). Although Byrne usually handles both writing and art when he is assigned to a book, he only writes the stories during his IM run. The art will be provided first by John Romita Jr (whose style has greatly evolved since his earlier IM run) and then by Paul Ryan, also known for his work on the Avengers and Fantastic Four comics.
A new age of greatness begins for Iron Man when writer Len Kaminski comes on board. He will be assisted by artists Kev Hopgood and Steve Mitchell, and later on by Tom Morgan. Kaminski loses no time and immediately embarks on a most memorable roller coaster ride. The War Machine storyline (issues 282-283) features a dying Stark building himself a new and incredibly powerful suit of armor to strike one last time at one of his most enduring enemies, Justin Hammer. He achieves victory, but at a very high price. In issue 284, Stark seemingly dies and Jim Rhodes once again takes over Iron Man's role, and on top of it, becomes head of Stark Enterprises. But what Rhodey doesn't know, is that Stark is actually being kept alive artificially while scientists attempt to save his life. When Rhodey becomes aware of it (issue 290), he is very unhappy that the whole operation was kept a secret from him and quits. Stark insists that Rhodey keep the War Machine armor. Rhodey soon gets his own series and joins the Avengers West Coast team.Upon returning, Stark is incapacitated for a while and is forced to use a remote controlled armor to be Iron Man. He is quickly faced with crisis after crisis. In his 300th issue, Iron Man must once again face the unstoppable destructive power of Ultimo. He is helped in his endeavour by many people from his past who accept to wear some of Stark's past suits in order to defeat the giant monster. Then, in the Crash & Burn storyline, Stark Enterprises is falsely accused of corruption and Iron Man must fend off attacks by Deathlok, Venom, the New Warriors, Thunderstrike and the Hulk. Most Iron Man fans have very fond memories of this chapter of their hero's life, even if the art is sometimes left to be desired. In dark months ahead, past glories such as this will be missed dearly. In other books, Iron man is instrumental in disbanding the Avengers West Coast team (issue 101) and then creates a new team of heroes; Force Works. It comprises many of the old Avengers West crew; the Scarlet Witch, U.S. Agent, Spider-Woman and a newcomer, the alien Century. 1995-1996: THE ENDThe first volume of the Iron Man series comes to an end with issue 332, in September of 1996. Fans will actually welcome its end when it comes, because the last year of the series will be every IM fan's worst nightmare come true. In The Crossing, a storyline that most people would love to forget, it was revealed that Tony Stark had actually been a villain since the early days of his career as Iron Man, infiltritating the Avengers for Kang. After murdering several people, the Avengers decide to travel back through time to enlist the aid of teenager Stark. When the older Stark finally dies, the teenager replaces him as Iron Man for a short while until he is killed by Onslaught.Thus came Iron Man's inglorious and shameful end... for now.
History:1996-1997: HEROES REBORNIn 1996, Iron Man is relaunched along with the Avengers, Captain America and the Fantastic Four. All of these characters' past history is pushed aside as they are reborn in an entirely new world. This second volume of Iron Man will offer readers beautiful art and new color techniques and very entertaining stories. Many of Iron Man's past enemies are revamped and reintroduced in this new world, such as the Hulk, the Living Laser, the Mandarin, Doctor Doom and Galactus. In this series, Stark is a dark and selfish man, withdrawn and distant from everyone, until an accident injures him. In order to save himself and his company, he is forced to put on an experimental suit of armor that once caused the death of his best friend.Aside from the last issue (13) which does not fit with any of the rest, the series is mostly very enjoyable. The art of Whilce Portacio is undoubtedly a great part of the series' success.
History:1998-2000: HEROES RETURN: THE BUSIEK / CHEN RUN
In this third volume, Tony Stark is brought back into the mainstream Marvel universe by talented writer Kurt Busiek and fantastic artist Sean Chen. During an altogether very good run, Iron Man will face old and new enemies, like the Death Squad (issue 1), the new Firebrand (issues 4-5), a mercenary wearing the War Machine armor (issues 11-12-19-20), the Controller (issue 13) and one of his most powerful and persistent enemies, the giant Ultimo (issues 23-24). Old supporting characters Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan are reintroduced as they become employees of Stark's new company; Stark Solutions. Tony makes the acquaintance of a beautiful young lady called Rumiko Fujikawa, the daughter of a business competitor and the first of Stark's serious love interests in a very long time. Busiek leaves the title before he can tell the final Madame Masque story he had in store, but he finally lets the cat out of the bag in issues 31 to 34 of the Avengers. 2000: BAD BLOOD
Fans were treated to a short reunion of the legendary Michelinie/Layton team in 2000 when the duo collaborated on the IRON MAN: BAD BLOOD 4-issues mini-series. The story involves the last confrontation between Tony Stark and old arch-rival Justin Hammer, reintroduced Jim Rhodes in the modern IM continuity and also featured a new high-tech space armor. Old melancholic fans were overjoyed to see the duo handle their favourite character once more and new fans discovered them with great delight.
History:2000-2002: QUESADA, TIERI, GRELL...(will it ever end?)Since Busiek's departure, every writer who has been assigned to the book has attempted to go his own way with the character and take the title in «a whole new direction». The result has been a great lack of continuity, confusion, loose ends in the plots, poor character development and a lack of stability in the character's life.Quesada made Stark's armor come to life and reintroduced the old heart problems, Tieri made Stark give up his company and his fortune to start a new life as poor computer consultant «Hogan Potts», only to return everything to normal a few issues later and finally, Grell had Stark reveal to the world that he was Iron Man, in order to save a puppy from being crushed by a speeding car. Many IM fans shudder at the thought of what will happen next and hunger for a new and much needed age of greatness.
