Iron Man: Armored Adventures presents big energy, big fights
The release of Iron Man: Armored Adventures onto DVD has fans excited – now young Iron Man aficionados can have the first episodes of the show’s first season at home. The CGI animated series features a teenage hero in Tony Stark, who utilizes his resources at Stark Industries (run by Obidiah Stane after Tony’s father’s sudden demise) as well as his genius intelligence to protect the innocent people of the world from would-be evil doers.
Christopher Yost, the show’s head writer, admits that the show isn’t exactly like the comic book series – but, neither, he insists, was the movie.
“Every time you translate something to either another medium or another era there are changes made,” he informed Comic Book Resources.
In the television series, Tony Stark is a teenager in order to make the show kid-friendly to the mostly young viewers of such networks as Nicktoons and Jetix.
However, Yost insists that there is still much in the show to please the hardcore comic book fans such as himself. He said: “I love this show. Trust me, I was right there with the fans when they came to me and said, ‘Okay, teen Tony, go!’ I was like, ‘No way.’ But as it went on we’ve found ways to make it as Iron Man as Iron Man gets. The other thing that we’re really proud of with this show is that it is a villain’s show. There are so many villains in this show and it’s pretty great.”
In Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Tony Stark battles the likes of the Living Laser, Unicorn, Killer Shrike, Whiplash, Crimson Dynamo, Blizzard and the Mandarin.
“You’re going to see a bunch of fighting,” Yost enthused. “The show has a very unique animated style and let me tell you that when they start the big fights, with the big energy, it’s great.”
