John Henry Irons/Steel Appreciation 2024

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who is the artist? very cool

did they ever find condiment king? At the risk of overspeculating, I don't think he knows much about certain ethnic cuisine/seasoning. But there's probably at least one hilarious lack-of-hot sauce joke in the mix if he were to bum rush somebody's cookout uninvited.

I'd have posted this in the Natasha Irons thread but that one doesn't exist I suppose is telling, I still believe Christopher Priest has been only writer to give this girl a personality, it might've of been an abrasive and often unlikable one but it was also hilarious and at times uncomfortably real, it grabbed my attention and stayed with me long after I'd finished the run which is something I sadly can't say about Natasha in anything else I've read her in.

I find it's an issue with a lot black heroes in comics, there often written (usually by white writers) to be more aspirational as opposed to flawed, complex or well rounded, which leads to inoffensive but ultimately bland characters.

I think a bitchy sardonic Nat who glams up her iron suit with jewellery and decal would actually prove popular or at least give her something of fandom which she's never had.

ha! What all issues did Priest write for Steel back then?

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I'd have posted this in the Natasha Irons thread but that one doesn't exist I suppose is telling, I still believe Christopher Priest has been only writer to give this girl a personality, it might've of been an abrasive and often unlikable one but it was also hilarious and at times uncomfortably real, it grabbed my attention and stayed with me long after I'd finished the run which is something I sadly can't say about Natasha in anything else I've read her in.

I find it's an issue with a lot black heroes in comics, there often written (usually by white writers) to be more aspirational as opposed to flawed, complex or well rounded, which leads to inoffensive but ultimately bland characters.

I think a bitchy sardonic Nat who glams up her iron suit with jewellery and decal would actually prove popular or at least give her something of fandom which she's never had.

Natasha knows how to deal with a Paul.

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who is the artist? very cool

did they ever find condiment king? At the risk of overspeculating, I don't think he knows much about certain ethnic cuisine/seasoning. But there's probably at least one hilarious lack-of-hot sauce joke in the mix if he were to bum rush somebody's cookout uninvited.



ha! What all issues did Priest write for Steel back then?

I think it’s the artist who did that comic tie-in with HQ: TAS. Dunno their name but their style is very cartoony in a way I enjoy.

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This version of John Henry suit is the one I like it the most: Facial features in the mask, the metalic Superma logo and the sledgehammer.

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Does Steel's armor reside inside him like Captain Atom's exoshell?

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Does Steel's armor reside inside him like Captain Atom's exoshell?

It doesn’t seemto work like Extremis. It’s not a part of him, but it does seem to be nanotech that he can “summon” into being per the recent Action Comics backups and Steelworks mini.

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Steel cameo in today’s JSA.

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Steel cameo in today’s JSA.

Johns trying to get his spinoff characters to take off!

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Johns trying to get his spinoff characters to take off!

Lmao good luck to him. Those characters are all going to quietly disappear without him around to give them a push. I do like Salem of the bunch. But not sure what Junior adds to the Irons clan.