Hugo and Nebula award winner
Orson Scott Card will be writing
the upcoming Ultimate Iron Man. Card, best known for his novels
Ender’s Game and
Speaker for the Dead, is a perfect fit to a comic
book about a man who is dependant on machinery to live.
The comic book will be penciled by Marvel super star artist
Andy Kubert
It seems a trend with Marvel to launch a new Ultimate line book before the launch of a wide release movie.
They have done so with Spider-man, X-Men, and DareDevil/Electra.
The Ultimate re-works classic Marvel superheroes in a contemporary fashion.
Iron Man already appears in the
Ultimates the Ultimate line's answer to the Avengers. The Ultimates basicly take the fantastic elements of
super heroes and places them in a realistic settings. They deal with current issues such as terrorists and such.
Based on the success of the
Ultimates we can expect
Ultimate Iron Man to be a big hit.