Posts Tagged ‘ War Machine ’

“Yeah, the guy said he was an American but he was wearing that funky tin suit so I couldn’t tell if he was telling the truth, and yeah, when you’re deep in country in Nam, you shoot first and ask questions later. So I unloaded a clip on the guy’s punk ass. Sure, I could’a caught a ricochet or two but I ain’t ‘fraid of no stinking bullets. I’m a man’s man and that’s all there is.”

Jim Rhodes and Tony Stark. Friends. Brothers. Comrades in arms. It’s Jim Rhodes Week here on Comic By Comic – and every day we’ll be celebrating the man. The myth. The legend.

And a b’romance for the ages.

Poor old Jim Rhodes.

At one point Iron Man’s pilot, Rhodey’s been bounced from pillar to post for years.

He becomes Iron Man, only to have Tony’s armor screw with his mind.

He hangs around with Tony only in his tighty-whiteys way too much. Way too much.

He becomes War Machine when Tony dies, only to have Tony not be dead at all, just screwing with his mind.

He strikes out on his own and joins up with the Avengers West Coast only to have them disbanded and reformed by Tony as Force Works. Only Rhodey doesn’t get an invite.

He gets rid of the armor only to get bonded to a weird alien-parasite-thingummy armor.

He somehow gets rid of that armor and eventually ends up in The Crew. Which gets cancelled after, like, two issues.

He ends up working for Office of National Emergency (O.N.E.) in a big old Sentinel armor, then gets smacked around by Black Panther and Storm. Panther gives him a lecture then buggers off.

He then ends up as some kind of unexplainedly cyborg thing back in an armor that looks like his old one as an instructor at the Initiative, where he doesn’t get to do much except snarl at people through his faceplate.

And then, finally, Tony uses him as a failsafe against the Skrulls because he built the new armor out of old tech ‘just in case’.

On the plus side, he just got hooked up to a giant space station and transformed it into a giant kick-ass transforming robot thing.

So, y’know, upside.

Oh, also, to the joy of exactly one person (me), Christos Gage bought back Cybermancer!