Storyline: Viva Las Vegas Part 1 (of 4)
Date: May 7, 2008
Price: $3.99 US
Writer: Jon Favreau
Artists: Adi Granov

Synopsis: A Marvel Knights series by the talents who brought you the IRON MAN movie! What’s a billionaire to do when he’s worn out from running a multi-national corporation? Well, if his name happens to be Tony Stark, it’s a situation that calls for some R & R in the casinos of sin city! Mix in a beautiful archaeologist and the fifty-foot dragon statue she discovered, and a plague of lizards descending on Las Vegas, and it’s a recipe for the sort of armored adventure that’s a perfect chaser after an evening at the movies!

Opinion: Iron Man’s newest series is taking a dip into archeology. Much like a page from Tomb Raider, Tony stark is playing with very old things that will certainly come back to bite him on his cute hiney. It’ll be really interesting to see how Tony Stark the carefree electronic genius handles an ancient artifact which is not electronic and easily understood.

The series is of course just in time for the new Ironman movie (which you all should have seen by now and if you haven’t you need to stop surfing the internet and see it!). The series is actually written by the director of the movie, which should help keep the Ironman/Tony Stark character pretty similar. Nothing is more confusing then a comic and a movie which reflects two different characters of a superhero.

The director, er… writer of the comic portray Tony as a devil-may-care playboy who occasionally saves a few lives. I’m really looking forward to some further character development and maybe some intelligence as Tony battles the ancient monster he accidentally woke up. You’ll have to read the comic since I don’t want to spoil anything I won’t go into more detail. My only complaint is that the comic was too short, I understand you can’t fit a whole story into one issue but maybe a little more character/story development would be nice.

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Today we have some artwork from the new Invincible Iron Man series written by Matt Fraction and penciled by Salvador Larroca plus an exclusive peek at artwork from Skrull Invasion #3 - there’s a couple spoilers on this panel - so I placed it after the jump. Please feel free to ignore it… if you can!

After the jump, we have some advanced completed panels from the upcoming Invincible Iron Man #1, which is getting a bit of a reboot to capitalize on the new movie and make the story more digestible for newcomers. Here is the explanation of the story, from Marvel themselves:

Tony Stark – Iron Man, billionaire industrialist and director of S.H.I.E.L.D. – faces the most overwhelming challenge of his life. Ezekiel Stane, the son of Tony’s late business rival and archenemy Obadiah, has set his sights, his genius and his considerable fortune on the task of destroying Tony Stark and Iron Man. What’s worse, he’s got Iron Man tech, and he’s every bit Iron Man’s equal and opposite…except younger, faster, smarter…and immeasurably evil.

Click through for some of this beautiful artwork plus the sneak-peek, unfinished panel from Secret Invasion #3!

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Last Friday, during the Battlestar Galactica season 4 premiere, a new Iron Man trailer debuted! While I have unfortunately been completely unable to cover any Battlestar action (one of the best shows on TV btw!); I am here to give you some Iron Man goodness!

Check out the new trailer after the jump and also info on how you can win some of Stark’s Schwag!

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Over at Superhero Hype there were some Iron Man pictures put up with the Paramount logo on them, but they were taken down a short time later when they were asked to remove them. They’re full of action and give some insights into the movie’s events. Check ‘em out!

Images courtesy of Slashfilm.

See 13 more leaked pictures in ScreenSaver size after the jump!

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