Iron Man’s Costly Armor
Our friends over at io9 attempted to price out what it would cost to construct Iron Man’s movie armor using real world technology.
Annalee Newitz concluded, “So, what’s the final price tag? $100,420,000
“To put that in perspective, the cost of the F-35 fighter plane is estimated at $95 to $113 million. So this suit might easily fit in today’s military budgets.”
However, please think twice before suggesting this to your Congressman.
Meantime, the film took in $133.6 million over the three day weekend, making the fifth best domestic opening in history. Add in the $194 million of international box office and the film has already achieved stratospheric numbers.
Of course, the film cost in the neighborhood of $175 million coupled with a global marketing budget of $150, and the expenses are $325 million. The movie will have to gross something on the order of $900 million to show profit from the feature alone. Of course, ancillary merchandise already on sale followed by cable, disc and other revenue streams, no one will cry poverty when the finally tallies are completed some time next year.
Frank Frazetta ushered in a new era of cover painting with heavily muscled heroes and lush, voluptuous women, evolving the pulp magazine style for more contemporary audiences. His work proved influential to writers, artists, and musicians for decades. 
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According to biographer / publisher Russ Cochran, legendary illustrator and comics artist Frank Frazetta passed away this morning.
It seemed fairly inevitable that as super-heroes and graphic novels grew more prevalent for younger readers, there’d be a greater variety in presentation. Jake Bell and Chris Giarrusso have come up with something a little bit different: young adult prose books with 8-page comic sections.
Apparently, Warner Bros. has achieved success with their program of allowing people to upgrade from standard DVD to Blu-ray and has announced an expansion of the DVD2Blu program. The studio called our attention to the growing number of genre titles that ComicMix fans were most likely to be interested in exploring.
Anticipating today’s release of [[[Iron Man 2]]], DK Publishing released [[[Iron Man: The Ultimate Guide to the Armored Super Hero]]] back in February. The book, like last year’s [[[Wolverine]]] offering, is in their new thicker but shorter trim size and at 200 pages is chock full of information regarding only the comic book career of the Golden Avenger.
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