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Iron Man: Bad Blood #2 Synopsis by
T Vernon
Tony Stark and James Rhodes are in the lab, testing Tony’s new Personal Defense Armor a/k/a the Evader, which Rhodey notes seems to be including more weaponry with each revision. Rhodey questions Tony’s former resolve to stop selling weapons; Tony shrugs it off….
Tony plays racquetball with prospective client Roland Kinison; Kinison subtly bumps into Tony, causing him to miss the ball. Tony responds by tripping Kinison who reacts in anger and refuses to do business with Stark. Tony’s girlfriend Rumiko Fujikawa, who witnessed the game, questions why Tony would do that. Tony doesn’t care, all that matters is that he won….
Elsewhere, Justin Hammer is getting another report from his aide Phillip Barnett and we get only vague hints again. Time for his therapy, Hammer unlatches his boots and falls straight up into a pool….
Pepper expresses her concerns about Tony to Rhodey so he goes to the lab to check up on Tony. There he finds Iron Man, who has learned that the police are about to raid Spymaster’s lair and he wants to get there first to take revenge….
The SWAT team surrounds the building but Iron Man flies over their heads and through the wall. He meets Spymaster who has newly upgraded armor and weapons. The two battle, trading blows which the other always counters. The villain tries to fly off in his huge aircraft and Shellhead hurls a car at him sending his ship crashing into the restaurant atop the Space Needle. They grapple together and plummet to the street. Iron Man’s armor is damaged but Spymaster’s isn’t. Tony fires his repulsors on wide dispersal and Spymaster can’t absorb that many attacks and overloads. The baddie draws a gun but Iron Man seizes it crushing the gun—and the hand holding it—to pulp. The police point out that his wide angled shooting has wounded civilians and damaged a lot of property behind the villain; the Golden Avenger doesn’t care: he stopped the bad guy….
At the lab, Rhodey tries to talk to Tony but the inventor is preoccupied with work on the Evader; Rhodey grabs his shoulder to get his attention and Stark angrily points a breach gun at Rhodey’s head and squeezes the trigger but it was powered down. The unnerved Rhodey confronts Tony about it. Tony admits he did something stupid: next time, he’ll make sure the gun is loaded….