View by:

What Were They Thinking? Iron Man's Roller Skates

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 – running time 01:55
What Were They Thinking? Iron Man's Roller Skates
In our first installment of "What Were They Thinking?", we take a look at Avengers #94 and Iron Man's secret weapon: Roller Skates

Avengers #94 is a story from the middle of the Kree-Skrull War storyline, and in this issue the Avengers fight the Mandroids of S.H.I.E.L.D. and are getting their butts handed to them, until Iron Man pulls out his secret weapon, Roller Skates! Really? Roller Skates? Yes, really.

Highlights
roller skates ( 0:47, 0:51, 1:02, 1:13, 1:17, 1:21, 0:47, 0:51, 1:02, 1:13, 1:17, 1:21 ) Neal Adams ( 0:30, 0:30 ) Roy Thomas ( 0:29, 0:29 ) Tony Stark ( 1:04, 1:04 ) roller skates ( 0:47, 0:51, 1:02, 1:13, 1:17, 1:21, 0:47, 0:51, 1:02, 1:13, 1:17, 1:21 ) Neal Adams ( 0:30, 0:30 ) Roy Thomas ( 0:29, 0:29 ) Tony Stark ( 1:04, 1:04 )

Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )

" Hey welcome to another edition of my family mini I'm Ron Richards and and Europe are first edition of what were they thinking. We take a look at great moments from complicates tree and wonder just really thinking doing that. Our first edition takes a look at -- issue number 94. This comic and and the late sixties and -- and right in the middle -- pro war classic story line and a lot of people are looking at with the current -- invasion going on in the marvel universe it was written by Roy Thomas and has drawn by Neal Adams and the specific moment that I'm looking -- has to do the battle between the -- and the -- the shield and man dreads are kind of robotic armor with guys inside the seats in the fighting in vendors. And in the middle of the battle iron man breaks out his secret weapon which happens to be a pair of roller skates. Seemingly assuming that no one knows he has these roller skates he thinks he's going to be able to escape through these men dredging get away. This lasts for three panels when one of them android shoots the ground in front of iron man and he trips and falls off the roller skates. We're -- Tony Stark billionaire industrialists making defensive weapons and missiles and the robots and all the stuff for the government and his secret weapon is a pair of roller skates. I mean I know it's the late sixties and things are -- cool and apparently roller skates -- brand new thing but seriously a defense of secret weapon of roller skates. On the adventures that really makes you wonder. So if you want to scene is very classic moment you to pick up the -- war is available trade paperback you can head over to Amazon.com more to it in stock trades dot com picking up or you can head over I -- what I -- talked other folks about the crystal wars a lot of people been talking but the storyline and it's a lot of fun. If you like this show it however revision three dot com or multifamily where you check out our daily many episodes or weekly episode on Saturday comes -- at -- so I'll see you next time."

" Hey welcome to another edition of my family mini I'm Ron Richards and and Europe are first edition of what were they thinking. We take a look at great moments from complicates tree and wonder just really thinking doing that. Our first edition takes a look at -- issue number 94. This comic and and the late sixties and -- and right in the middle -- pro war classic story line and a lot of people are looking at with the current -- invasion going on in the marvel universe it was written by Roy Thomas and has drawn by Neal Adams and the specific moment that I'm looking -- has to do the battle between the -- and the -- the shield and man dreads are kind of robotic armor with guys inside the seats in the fighting in vendors. And in the middle of the battle iron man breaks out his secret weapon which happens to be a pair of roller skates. Seemingly assuming that no one knows he has these roller skates he thinks he's going to be able to escape through these men dredging get away. This lasts for three panels when one of them android shoots the ground in front of iron man and he trips and falls off the roller skates. We're -- Tony Stark billionaire industrialists making defensive weapons and missiles and the robots and all the stuff for the government and his secret weapon is a pair of roller skates. I mean I know it's the late sixties and things are -- cool and apparently roller skates -- brand new thing but seriously a defense of secret weapon of roller skates. On the adventures that really makes you wonder. So if you want to scene is very classic moment you to pick up the -- war is available trade paperback you can head over to Amazon.com more to it in stock trades dot com picking up or you can head over I -- what I -- talked other folks about the crystal wars a lot of people been talking but the storyline and it's a lot of fun. If you like this show it however revision three dot com or multifamily where you check out our daily many episodes or weekly episode on Saturday comes -- at -- so I'll see you next time."