Reading Iron Age, I kept having a feeling of sort of happy deja vu. The closest I can come to really describing it is to mention that I once tried to watch the original Mobile Suit Gundam and gave up about five, six episodes in... which, when I was watching the early fansubs of Gundam SEED, kept giving me this impression like 'Hey, I know this bit! Only this time, it doesn't suck!'

Priss and the Boomer and the Camero, and gaming with Nene (YAY! Mechwarrior!)... all the good bits, except for the Rocket Attack USA bit (which really didn't have an opportunity to come up, unless Ben wanted to be really annoying and confusing), and then mixed it with interesting plotting and characterization and a take on cyberpunk that's halfway plausible without making me want to scream and claw my eyes out at the wasteful chaotic horror of the image, like Stephenson's Snow Crash did.

So, yeah. Kudos on all counts.

Ja, -n
(Have I mentioned how thrilled I was when I got to the image of Nene in a Mad Cat?)