Bob Layton interview on Iron Man 2

[Carlo Comicus]

http://www.comicus.it/view.php?secti...erviste&id=316

in italian and english version

[The Bruce]

To be perfectly honest, I haven’t kept up with the current incarnation of Iron Man in the Marvel books. So, it would be hard to venture an opinion. As I tell people at conventions and such: “I’m a seller of Iron Man—not a buyer.” David and I have been fortunate enough to reach a point in our careers that we can do a new IM series for Marvel and they’ll permit David and me to do “our version” of the character and avoid current continuity. I think the hard-core fans of the Michelinie/Layton runs want to see our Tony Stark and company when we create a new storyline.

Am I reading this right? Are they thinking about coming back and doing a book?

[SurfDUI]

--even Pepper Potts personality (who is actually Mrs. Arbogast in Pepper's body in the movie) all came from us

To be perfectly honest, I haven’t kept up with the current incarnation of Iron Man in the Marvel books. So, it would be hard to venture an opinion. As I tell people at conventions and such: “I’m a seller of Iron Man—not a buyer.” David and I have been fortunate enough to reach a point in our careers that we can do a new IM series for Marvel and they’ll permit David and me to do “our version” of the character and avoid current continuity. I think the hard-core fans of the Michelinie/Layton runs want to see our Tony Stark and company when we create a new storyline.

preciate this Comicus. When I got my first IM it was during the second Layton/Michelinie run. He's one of my top 5 fav artists period. I thought he should have had a cameo in the first film, but was glad to hear about his set visits on IM2.

One of the rubs when they had the book back in the 80's was they turned it into a soap opera. I guess...at least it was a soap opera w/ a dude who shot lasers from an Iron suit. Good read

[SurfDUI]

Originally Posted by The Bruce

Am I reading this right? Are they thinking about coming back and doing a book?

They've came back to the character a couple of times, Iron Age I think was theres, the 2 part w/ half of the gold IM suit's face on both the covers. and I believe one other time, and yea outside the post extremis and pre Civil War continuities.