by Phil, naturally.

IM looks a bit Cyberman-ish, don't you think?

>IM looks a bit Cyberman-ish, don't you think?

Someone is watching too much Dr. Who. I think it's pretty cool, and shows boomer elements.

Speaking of cool - so the big glowy disk thing...um, now that the arc reactor isn't required for Ben Stark to live, why does Iron Man have one?

curious,
t.

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>Speaking of cool - so the big glowy disk thing...um, now that the arc
>reactor isn't required for Ben Stark to live, why does Iron Man have
>one?

That's the unibeam. Iron Man's always had one; its connection to the apparatus keeping Tony alive was an invention for the movie. In the comics it's a multifunction searchlight/laser array that happens to be mounted on the chestplate, and artists took to giving it that gold glow back in the '90s, when comic artists first got the technology to do decent lighting effects, simply because it looks cool.

(For that matter, the whole "arc reactor" thing is a movie invention. In the early comics, as in the two published TIA pieces, Iron Man and the chestplate's cardiac device were powered by batteries.)

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>IM looks a bit Cyberman-ish, don't you think?

Can't really be helped in this pose; he's looking straight at the camera, which removes all perspective from his helmet. In a 3/4 view it'd be more obvious that he doesn't have Cyberman head flanges going on, but then he wouldn't be looking at the camera. Damned if you do...

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>>IM looks a bit Cyberman-ish, don't you think?
>
>Can't really be helped in this pose; he's looking straight at the
>camera, which removes all perspective from his helmet. In a 3/4 view
>it'd be more obvious that he doesn't have Cyberman head flanges going
>on, but then he wouldn't be looking at the camera. Damned if you
>do...
>
Bah. I agree with your quip about someone watching too much Dr. To be honest, I personally didnt see anything but Iron Man with a Boomer in the background.

As usuall, TOtotally KILLER work, Phil. I hope this inspires G to finish This Years Model sooner rather than later.

Very nice work!

There's something vaguely... *feminine* about the pose. It's almost as if the artist referenced a picture of a female spellcaster of some sort.

Doesn't hurt the picture any, just found it odd.

>There's something vaguely... *feminine* about the pose. It's almost as
>if the artist referenced a picture of a female spellcaster of some
>sort.
>
>Doesn't hurt the picture any, just found it odd.

I personally dont see what you do. I guess I'm just so male that the only way an image looks feminine is if it has the correct... umm... secondary sexual attributes?

I think that it's the pose. First off, the spellcaster metaphor is completely appropriate: Iron Man is about to huck a fireball. So looking at fantasy art is appropriate.

Stereotypically, male spellcasters are old men in robes, while female ones are young women in as little as possible (the infamous chainmail bikini). Guess which ones the artists like to fill the page with? Thus, the ladies often end up with the page-filling "launching a spell at you" pose, and men often end up on one side of the page, launching a spell at a target on the other side, and the focus of the art tends to be either the target or the magic itself.

Here, our hero looks a lot better than Gandalf, and thus gets the focus of the art normally reserved for the ladies. I guess that, if you wanted to, you could separate the legs somewhat to brace for recoil. But considering the way he can use them while flying, they don't have any recoil.

--rR

I can see what you mean about the posing, but I also have to agree with remande on most points. I also think that if you consider the point that most of the characters you see posed like this -are- female, one's mind might have the tendency to view it that way. That's not entirely true, since some people don't see it, but I think it's still valid.

Entirely apart from that though, the image itself is awesome.
(Old BGC buma, while far superior imho to the 2040 ones, are frickin' creepy...)