Eyrie doesn't have a tradition of redshirts that I can remember, and I somehow doubt that's likely to change now. If a "good guy" dies, I fully expect it will be meaningful to the story rather than being a gratuitous "look how dangerous X is!"

Uh, no; Zoner's about as white as white gets.

>Although I really, really liked the use of Judge Dread's gun in
>the last episode. Nice Lawgiver...

The sound effect it made in response to his mode selection is actually from Syndicate, which dates me, I know. :)

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>Uh, no; Zoner's about as white as white gets.
Oops, more reasons not to post when utterly exhausted - you read "black" as "wearing black".

>The sound effect it made in response to his mode selection is actually
>from Syndicate, which dates me, I know. :)

Ah, to google I must go...

danke,
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but... I thought.. Zoner was playing himself in TIA.

back on the teaser.. I think the Iron Man in that teaser is the original Stark, as in Tony Stark :D

I seem to recall from what little I know about the Marvel Iron Man is that Rhodes wore the Warmachine suit.

where this fits in the story I don't know, but I think i'm going to enjoy finding out :D

For a time, while Tony was fighting his own, personal demons (Whiskey in particular), Rhodes WAS Iron Man. After Tony recovered (more or less) he took over as Iron Man again and, eventually, Rhodes took up War Machine.

In the comics, Tony Stark was grievously injured while serving in Vietnam, which led to him build the life support breastplate that would become the Iron Man suit.

In TIA, it looks like Ben Stark was the one in need of a life support system... and Tony wasn't so lucky.

Of course, rampantly speculating about an Eyrie plot is about as useful as trying to solve a math problem by chewing bubblegum ;)

I don't know... both of them could have needed a life support breastplate, one doesn't necessarily exclude the other :D but i'lld give that they probably needed it for different reasons :D

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From context clues in TIA #1, I'd guess that Tony didn't make it out of Southeast Asia.

Clue #1: Tony's "ghost" doesn't know why Dr. Yinsen is not a possible source of the chip that Ben has.

Clue #2: Five years. There's a lot of things that happen five years before Ben comes to MegaTokyo.

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From The Iron Age #1.

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D'oh!

That's what I get for posting on the fly. I should've mentioned that.

Anyway, here's my something I came up with:

#1 ends with Ben Stark's life support failing, right? Maybe #2 is part flashback, a sort of "life flashing before your eyes"-type near death experience. A way to show how Ben Stark goes from gung-ho journalist to superhero, or rather, since he had the motive to be superhero (as shown from the quote you cited), how he acquires the means to do it. He gets the opportunity in TIA #1.

Of course, I could be completely off the mark. Only Gryphon knows for sure :D

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Not true! :)

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But your not telling either. Good to see your doing well in your jr vorlon scout training!

*rimshot*

Oh yeah.

Vauge statements
Confsuing the Issue
Unscrutability...

"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"

	Chad Collier Smirking Kilrathi The Captain of the Gravy Train Sorry, you invoked my inner Ralph Wiggam. :)

using apostrophes in plurals worse. :) --G.

>>Unscrutability...
>
>"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
>

Considering he managed to misspell 3 words out of 6, if you hadn't channelled Ralph, I probably would've. 8P

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Oh it had nothing to do with the spelling. I have terrible spelling myself. The im/un transposition just always triggers that quote in my head.

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Zoner *wears* black, not *is* black.

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