I'm not sure whether or not to be interested in this. Getting Daniel Knauf to pen six issues of Iron Man sounds kinda neat on the surface, but what does it really mean and who really cares?A quick swipe of some plot details from the press release linked to above states:
The exhilarating storyline will feature a string of high-visibility assassinations, prompting an intense investigation by Tony Stark (Iron Man’s alter ego), as the killer appears to be employing the armor and weapons of Iron Man.
Sound familiar? Well it should. I think this has pretty much been the standard Iron Man storyline for the last 25 years. I think there were two Stark Wars storylines dedicated to roughly the same themes when Michelinie and Layton were on the book many years ago, and it seems like anyone who comes on and thinks they're going to make Tony fresh again either makes the armour sentient/hostile or they send people after him who want to use his technology for bad things.
Knauf's Carnivale is certainly one of the more unique looking things on television today, but what can he really do with Iron Man to make people care? I'm afraid this stinks of a vanity project and another attempt by Marvel to convince people to buy and read comics because people from 'real' media - like television and films - are writing them. It worked so well with Zimmerman.
Wait and see, I guess.
mike
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