{"id":809,"date":"2010-04-27T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/27\/comic-book-report-invincible-iron-man-vol-1-the-five-nightmares\/"},"modified":"2010-04-27T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T16:12:00","slug":"comic-book-report-invincible-iron-man-vol-1-the-five-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/27\/comic-book-report-invincible-iron-man-vol-1-the-five-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 1: The Five Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S9ckprL91AI\/AAAAAAABAX4\/rXBn6bwLNUA\/s1600\/InvincibleIronManVol1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S9ckprL91AI\/AAAAAAABAX4\/rXBn6bwLNUA\/s320\/InvincibleIronManVol1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464876971223536642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked up a free reprint copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Invincible_Iron_Man\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Invincible Iron Man<\/span><\/a> #1 a few weeks ago at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Vancouver-WA\/Amazing-Stories\/180821049935\">a local game store<\/a> (D was dropping off flyers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamestorm.org\/\">GameStorm<\/a>).  The female clerk on duty recommended it, saying that she normally doesn&#8217;t go for Iron Man comics, but she liked this one.  I read it, also liked it, and then requested the above collection from the library.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s good and then there&#8217;s good.  The first issue sets up an interesting dialectic of global terrorism and security, but the story arc ends in (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">minor spoiler<\/span>) yet another super-powered fistfight.  I know it&#8217;s often very satisfying to see the bad guy get beaten to a pulp, but couldn&#8217;t you at least do it in a slightly different way each time?<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, a nice Pepper Potts subplot in here.  That&#8217;s the main reason I&#8217;m going to check out the next volume.<\/p>\n<p>Final note:  the coloring in this book really bugged me, mostly because every character looks like they&#8217;ve got a bad spray-on tan.  Easy on the airbrush, fellas:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S9ckSPbdq2I\/AAAAAAABAXs\/43ygdgDFsn8\/s1600\/INVIM001008_col.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 211px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S9ckSPbdq2I\/AAAAAAABAXs\/43ygdgDFsn8\/s320\/INVIM001008_col.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464876568635353954\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/0785134123?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0785134123\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a> (affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a free reprint copy of Invincible Iron Man #1 a few weeks ago at a local game store (D was dropping off flyers for GameStorm). The female clerk on duty recommended it, saying that she normally doesn&#8217;t&#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-809","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\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}