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Tony was such a friggin' GENIUS he was able to POWER his suit with transistors!!!!!
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Shmear?

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His mother was Jewish, farshteyt zikh!
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Ditko got it right.

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And therefore everything that came after is wrong, and invalidates Ditko's work?
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I love how flat the armour goes in the briefcase. Awesome stuff. To me it's clear that it's not just the yellow arms and legs that are flexible, but the red torso section as well. Genius Tony Stark came up with some way of making super smooth, flexible, near-indestructible armour. Of course we're confused as to how it works -- we're not geniuses like Tony!

And I agree that once you start having to introduce joints, then you introduce the concept of weaknesses at the joints. I prefer to think it's somehow all bolstered by a flexible energy field or something.

As to brains in the Marvel Universe: as far as I'm concerned, amongst humans, Reed is number one and Doom is narrowly beaten to number two. Tony Stark, for me, is no better than number three -- almost unparalleled in his field, but doesn't have the all-encompassing wider genius of Doom or Richards. 



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Brad Krawchuk
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This is starting to remind me of Raimi's organic webshooters.

Just because none of us are able to create webshooters, flexible armour, or gateways to the Negative Zone, doesn't mean Peter Parker, Tony Stark, and Reed Richards aren't smart enough to.
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The skintight metal bugged me as a young teen until I decided it was probably a mesh of millions of little magnets working like the cells in muscle tissue. That got me through another ten years of comics!
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Just for fun:
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Brandon Scott Berthelot
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Years ago Marvel put out a book called The Iron Manual, describing Iron Mans new (at the time) armor.  This was the armor that he controlled remotely as he was paralyzed at the time.  One thing they described was that there was no internal skeletal structure, the force field was what animated the armor.  

That is always how I have thought of the armor.  It could be skintight and very thin, because it has a force field that provides most of the protection and strength augmentation.  
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It amazes me that Romita had to fix JB's fist, but let that back left leg slide by.
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The only "JB" around here should be John Byrne -- and that's not a Byrne page, is it?
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No. I think Joe is referring to his IRON FIST cover where John Romita "fixed" IF's fist.

I think that IM cover is by JRjr/ Layton IIRC.
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That is indeed a JRjr/Layton cover. I'd love to see what Johnny's pencils looked like. I cannot imagine he drew the left foot that badly. (Or the rest of it, for that matter.)
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