War Machine 8 Review

The latest comic book to fly out of the really big comic book box of doom is War Machine Volume 1 Issue 8 from November 1994, titled “Friendly Fire.” Problems between Iron Man and War Machine, pertaining with War Machine’s attitude leads to Tony Stark to take the ultimate drastic step.

War Machine Volume 1 Issue 8 Review

War Machine Volume 1 Issue 8 was released by Marvel Comics in November 1994. This comic book was written by Scott Benson and Len Kaminski, penciled by Gabriel Gecko, Pam Eklund, Lettered by John Costanza, with Ariane on the colors.

The relationship between Tony Stark and Jim Rhodes or Iron Man and War Machine has been one that has their share of ups and downs. Much like any friendship, it has had its periods of distinct ups and rather distinct downs as well. When Stark was dealing with alcoholism, Rhodey took up the mantle of Iron Man for years, with of course, Stark later returning to the Iron Man.

Tony Stark is as always an interesting character, with many flaws, and one of his biggest one’s is being a jerk and kind of a control freak to some extent. War Machine is rather not too thrilled and decides that he is not going to answer to Stark.

Also Stark can be a bit of a hypocrite at times, calling out War Machine on some of his actions, actions that were backed up by logic that Tony himself used in the past. It appears that War Machine has had it with his friend and doesn’t want to answer to him.

Unfortunately, it appears that Rhodey might not have that much of a choice, as Tony Stark built the War Machine armor and as always there is a failsafe right in it. The drama and the despair was well played, as with regrets, Stark shut down the War Machine armor, basically grounding his friend.

I really did enjoy this issue, this seems to be right in the midst of a rather well put together run on this comic, judging by the positive feedback. This was around the time where the mid 1990s Marvel Cartoon by Iron Man came out, with War Machine being a huge part of that one as well.

Overall, I would recommend giving this issue a look, as I was captivated with this one.

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