Machine Man

Yeah.

Machine man, Adam's asking.

Yeah, it could be a machine man.

The video that I was watching to jog my memory, because I knew of the first half of Jocasta, but I was trying to get the whole history.

So I kind of sped through.

It could be Machine Man.

Yeah.

I sped through the new shit because I knew the new shit wasn't going to be too relevant.

But then she, like, hangs out anyway.

Eventually finds, like, Machine Man.

She's like, okay, look, like, let's make this work.

Turns out later that's not the real Machine Man.

But whatever.

She still has some love for a little while.

So they would, like in the Transformers comic books, they had robotics and zoids and other... toy lines that I think Marvel had access to and there was another one called Spitfire which was basically a big red suit of powered armour and I'm pretty I think there might have been some Iron Man in the back of it as well every now and again but yeah he would I'm sure he was reading the same books because he even brought in characters who appeared in issues of the Hercules comic book by Marvel and he then tied those into uh the origin of tony stark and i was like reading views and going oh my god i'm having flashbacks to my childhood you bastard kieran um and the uh yeah uh the the blood child of howard and maria arno stark originally appeared in a back half of the transformers called iron man 2020 actually um It was a...

If you know the Marvel character Machine Man, who is basically an android, he was another one I discovered through the Transformers books.

Here we are having a full-on geek out here.

They actually did a run of him where they put him in...

Maybe there's another one.

Machine Man.

Here's the

best one.

... there's, like, robots.

He meets the Machine Man.

There's, like, the rich government people.

It reminded me a lot of, like, a Magnus Robot Fighter type cartoon where he's just, like, friends with all these different segments of society.

You know, when he couldn't finish New Gods at DC, then he went to Marvel, he did Eternals.

And he did Machine Man in 2001, Space Odyssey, and just doing this crazy cosmic stuff.

And when he couldn't get that to work at Marvel...

he ultimately has the Kirby verse at tops where he's again, trying to play with these big cosmic pantheons of, of modern day gods where he just, he didn't care about, you know, recreating the mythology of a hundred years ago or a thousand years ago from earth.

You've read him this year.

Aaron Stack, The Machine Man.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Well, you start this book, and then it turns into something completely different halfway there.

But again, it's always from a different perspective.

And then, like I said, halfway through, it flips.

And you see Machine Man on the blue area of the moon with the Watcher in the background like he was in Earth-X.

And it flips to him telling a tale about of looking out through the multiverse like the watcher does because he is the watcher at this point and he focuses in and he's having a conversation with somebody else but he focuses in on this other earth but right before that we get a couple pages with spread of alternate marble what ifs like we know like alex russell loves to draw the squadron supreme so we get a a panel of the squadron fully painted we get a mutant x where havoc goes to that uh other planet for like 30 issues and married to the goblin queen it's basically marvel midnight from the 90s