Iron Man - Extremis part 5, Written by Warren Ellis, Illustrated by Adi Granov
So here we are at issue 5. I have mixed feelings about how things turned out.
In all fairness, this is not a bad story. It's not in the realm of Identity Crisis (the best-written bad comic of 2004). If they filmed a movie off of this, I'd be in line opening day. Yes, if they filmed a movie off of any script, I'd be in line opening day, but the point remains. The book does not have bad art. If they used the art as production art for a movie. . .OK, I'd wonder if the projector bulb needed changing, but it's still excellent, if it's not vibrant.
We also get Ellis' take on Iron Man's origins, and Granov's take on the first Iron Man Armor and it's not bad. In fact, I can almost forgive all the parts I didn't like about issue five just for the line "Say hello to the Iron Man, you terrorist scum." Almost. It's just, after much mulling it over, I don't like the idea of Stark rewiring his own brain.
