What's happening? Madame Natasha returns and uses her bewbies to bamboozle Tony Stark again. I mean, it was all the way back in last issue when he fell for her antics, so he probably forgot she's a commie bitch looking to kill him and all America stands for. But she's got a great set and Tony's not the type to harbor a grudge. Tony invents some gravity ray, that by my best guess increases or decreases how gravity affects things. He shows this off to his entourage (U.S. generals) but some proto-paparazzi manages to get photos of Tony's little demo (no one really seems too upset at this security breach). The news of the gravity ray reaches Comrade Leader's ears and he puts Natasha into action. She writes a letter apologizing to Tony, who immediately invites her over to show off the gravity ray. She steals it and runs around destroying half of Tony's factories while Tony's loyalty is again challenged by the media. There's a huge face-off that includes a floating mountain and the appearance of Igor and Stanksy (thus depleting Stan Lee's knowledge of Russian names).
Iron Man wins the day by destroying the gravity ray and allowing Natasha to escape, presumably to dupe Tony again with her feminine wiles.
ETC: Just like in previous demonstrations, Tony decides to try out the gravity ray on a tank. I gotta think whoever is in charge of making sure the U.S. Army has all the tanks it needs fucking HATES Tony Stark.
MIA: Tony's sense of the scientific method. In the very first panel, Tony is hard at work developing a gravity ray, but he gets so frustrated he decides to just randomly change all the settings and have a go at it. Well, it works. And Tony has NO IDEA HOW HE MADE IT.
MVP: Eh. I tell you who isn't the MVP. Stansky. Not only is he wearing a bow tie and at one point fires a pistol at a tank, but he just HAS to play with the gravity ray despite Natasha's advice to the contrary. He's lifting a random car into the sky which allows Iron Man to find the Russkies' hideout without much effort and tosses said car into the hideout and starts busting ass.
WTF: Tony's a sharp guy. His dealings with women and scientific process notwithstanding. But when he crashes into the Russian hideout and Natasha still has the gravity ray his only choice is to attempt to trick the Black Widow. He goes with, "Hey, uh... that ray. It won't work against me. So, you should probably just give it to me and let me take care of it." (I might be paraphrasing.) Natasha doesn't fall for that terrible line of bullshit. Though, she does say, "Nice try, Iron Man." So Black Widow DOES have a super power: being patronizing.
Will Tony ever invent something that isn't stolen by his enemies? The lack of security around these easily abused super-technologies is worrying. One starts to wonder if Tony's science isn't more detrimental than helpful to the cause.
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