Project: Rooftop and
Westfeild Comics are sponsoring
Iron Man: Invincible Upgrade, for which I'm a commentator. This is my ineligible little contribution.
I'm not really an
Iron Man fan, and it seems me that, on some secret level, you kinda hafta want to
have sex with a Japanese motorcycle in order to design a really good suit of
Iron Man armor. And, well,
I do not want to have sex with a Japanese motorcycle. So, it was difficult to find a direction on this one. Then I read
Michael Chabon's article in the
New Yorker on superhero uniforms as "
True Skin." From that thesis, the notion of Tony Stark choosing to wear the machine as his flesh is distinctly creepy. From there, I liked the idea of lumpy, hirsute, middle-aged Tony wearing lithe, young machineflesh, and not really getting why the other superheroes aren't comfortable with this latest upgrade.
Not my most inspired redesign, but they can't all be
Ma Hunkel.
This is a different version than will appear when the
Invincible Upgrade runs. Dashing
Dean Trippe generously offered to color my entry, and who'd say no to that?