Entertainment Weekly runs down the lineup of the summer’s comic book-based movies, from Speed Racer to Hellboy II to Batman: The Dark Knight, and tries to match the adaptation with the recommended reading material.
For Iron Man, the magazine’s staff pointers movie-goers to the classic Demon In A Bottle storyline:
True, Jon Favreau’s movie is more of a cheeky origin story, but it merely sets the foundation for what he’s reportedly said will lend itself to a warts-and-all sequel. Enter Demon in a Bottle. Fifteen years after Iron Man’s invention, Michelinie and Layton created this definitive portrait of the alcoholic hero. Tony Stark, the playboy industrialist under the armor, goes head-to-head against whiskey sours and amaretto and scotches — it’s probably the only time you’ll hear the battle cry, ”I should never have had that fourth martini!” Reminders that it’s 1979 include disco fashions and Ed Koch.
Related: EW looks at the risks Marvel has taken with the Iron Man movie
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:35 am
The Long Halloween is great, and I highly recommend it for new Batman readers too, but I’d have to put The Killing Joke and The Man Who Laughs above it when it comes to pre-reading for the new movie.
Great stories both, but also as a primer for people who only Joker based on Caesar Romero or Jack Nicholson. Or even Mark Hammill, who was great, but the character was more goofy than evil.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
it’s gonna be awesome seeing robert downey jr. running around in a knights armor swinging a sword all hammered
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 am
I’m sure Downey’s already got plenty of practice doing that…
GREAT screen name, BTW… “SKINN-ERR!! Why have the kids’ Super Mario scores been slipping?”