Orson Scott Card to write 6 Issue "ULTIMATE IRON MAN" Mini

[Khephra]

Finally paying off on a hint dropped by Publisher Dan Buckley at WizardWorld Dallas, it was inadvertently announced by Time.com that novelist Orson Scott Card will be the writer on next year’s Ultimate Iron Man six issue miniseries, joining artist Andy Kubert. The first issue will reportedly have a foil cover by Bryan Hitch, whose artwork is seen here.

The tagline Marvel gave to Time.com reads: "If you thought The Ultimates told you everything you needed to know about Ultimate Iron Man, think again."

The move by Marvel makes Card the lastest in a series of novelists who have moved to comics for a project or an extended stay, a list which includes Greg Rucka, Brad Meltzer, Kevin Anderson, Michael Moorcock, Mat Johnson, Gary Phillips, Richard Morgan, and others.

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23341

Nice to see that Marvel is getting more and more top-shelf talent...too bad it's a rabid Right-winger like Card who will probably turn Tony into a Rumsfeldish Military hawk. Yeah, I know that Tony always has had arms designing/selling as a background in both the mainstream and Ultimate universes. (He did reject that aspect of his character in the mainstream U.)

However, I have a bad feeling about this project, especially in light that Marvel recently hired Zinsmeister (editor of The American Enterprise, the house magazine of the neocon American Enterprise Institute. He is also the author of Dawn Over Baghdad, a book celebrating the U.S. occupation.) to do a war comic.

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23341

More on Zinsmeister, if you're interested:

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/comments.php?id=P1460_0_1_0

[lazarus]

1. the big question

Underwear, yes or no?

[Khephra]

2. He wears his whole suit of clothes under the armor

at least he did back when I read the book.

Actually, I'm reading it again now that Warren Ellis is writing it.