{"id":716,"date":"2010-09-25T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/09\/25\/comic-book-report-iron-man-extremis\/"},"modified":"2010-09-25T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T07:10:00","slug":"comic-book-report-iron-man-extremis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/09\/25\/comic-book-report-iron-man-extremis\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: Iron Man: Extremis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/THTQpweMRFI\/AAAAAAABCxE\/ZglQyasSuWU\/s1600\/iron-man-extremis.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/THTQpweMRFI\/AAAAAAABCxE\/ZglQyasSuWU\/s320\/iron-man-extremis.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much has been made of the quality of the artwork in this book, but let&#8217;s be clear about something: if you pick up a comic written by Warren Ellis, chances are you&#8217;re going to enjoy the ride&#8211;every goddamn insane panel of it.  (Except maybe that part when he goes on way too long about using drugs.  I admit I&#8217;m not the target audience for that, but still.  Talk about bringing the story to a screeching halt.)<\/p>\n<p>British artist Adi Granov produces his first rough sketches digitally, and it shows; the characters look like posed 3-D mannequins, which gives their bodies perfect size and proportions but can leech some of the emotion out of them.  It only really bothered me in a few instances, and overall the consistency and added realism was a plus.<\/p>\n<p>The story itself is pretty standard, and serves mostly to explain how Tony Stark acquired that crazy Extremis suit&#8211;which, admittedly, is not as crazy as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iron_Man%27s_armor#Bleeding_Edge_Armor\">what comes next<\/a>, but it&#8217;s still pretty crazy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/0785142592?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0785142592\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a> (affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" title=\"CKL\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been made of the quality of the artwork in this book, but let&#8217;s be clear about something: if you pick up a comic written by Warren Ellis, chances are you&#8217;re going to enjoy the ride&#8211;every goddamn insane panel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41,51,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artcriticism","category-books","category-comics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}