All-New, All-Remote Avengers #19 – ‘Engines Pumping and Thumping in Time’

Iron Man and War Machine fly desperately through the sky. The title of the comic, "All-New, All-Remote Avengers Presents... 'Engines Pumping and Thumping in Time'," is visible at the top of the image. At the bottom, the location caption reads, "In the sky Upstate..."

A Huey helicopter flies away from Iron Man and War Machine, but they are catching up to it.

Inside the helicopter, two agents of Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) worriedly watching Iron Man and War Machine's progress.

War Machine swoops down next to the helicopter, and opens fire with the minigun mounted over his left shoulder.

The tail rotor of the helicopter explodes, and it pitches forward, plummeting to the earth below.

Iron Man puts on his afterburners, and positions himself directly below the falling helicopter.

Iron Man catches the falling helicopter in his two hands, making a horrible noise as the metal deforms against itself, with debris and smoke falling everywhere.

Trying gently to bring the helicopter to the ground, Iron Man quotes Foghat's 'Slow Ride' to himself as a mantra, repeating the phrase, "Take it easy... Slow ride, take it easy..." War Machine eventually lands next to him,

The A.I.M. agents stagger out of the helicopter, and War Machine and Iron Man immediately take them captive.

The credits for the comic strip, citing the Unsplash users whose photographs were the background art, the ownership of Marvel by Disney, and the figure photography/script/lettering by me, Phil Wrede.

Welcome back to All-New, All-Remote* Avengers for Part 2 of the big A.I.M. base assault! Read Part 1 here, again or for the first time, if you like!

I’ll be the first to admit that my toy comics aren’t the most “cinematic” comics out there, regardless of the form and materials used to produce them. The genesis of the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe, after all, was in Zoom meetings (well, StarkComm – because nearly every tech product in our world needs to have a Stark Industries analogue in the PWMAFCU), and there’s not a lot less cinematic than a talking head.**

So, I hope you’ll forgive me for being very, very proud of the sixth page/image in this comic, where Iron Man positions himself below the falling helicopter. I’m so happy with how that turned out! Although, I was happier with the Instagram version of this comic, where you swiped over to the following image – the splash page of Iron Man catching the helicopter in midair – and it almost felt like the chopper was crashing into him as the page slid over. But, you can’t always have everything you want.

*I know, they’re not really “remote” anymore. The name gets modified as this storyarc wraps, don’t worry!

**Yeah, good photographers can make anything cinematic. Sergio Leone, for instance, made silent heads the site of some incredible cinema. I’m not Sergio Leone.

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