I posted I was gonna review Enter The Mandarin but this has to be posted. I was in town and went to my comic shop looking for a TPB worth reading. When I saw this it caught my eye. I thought it was gonna be a cool action based story involving War Machine kicking lots of bad guy butt with bullets and missiles. BOY WAS I WRONG!!! This story explores so many subjects its crazy. It brings up racial issues A LOT in this book. The book was written by Chuck Austen and is presented in the Black and White Style(I thought I had a rare b/w version) and the look of the characters were odd.
In terms of a story its pretty basic, Rhodes joins SHIELD who replicate the War Machine armor and he gets a group of War Machines to command, each worn by a unique person. The group as usual is compromised by typical roles and one female who makes it difficult for the leader, the dumb white guy, an Asian, a Latino, and a pissed off Black guy. Even Dugan gets an armor with his styled hat part of it(shoot me). The underlaying story is about a group working with doom whos plan is to create a virus to kill all other races of people except white people.
I felt dirty reading this, I'm a person who's all about equality and brotherhood to all people, but this book, it made me feel unclean. I was looking forward to a violent take on this character, but not something about racial issues and corny characters. I can declare this one of my worst buys I ever bought in terms of a comic. The back of the book said it was controversial and it is, more so than One More Day. I guess I can put it this way, nice try but poor execution. this is the first review where I give it a 2/4 for story and a 1/4 for art. I really did not like the look of it, I gave it a try but at the end, it was bad. My next review will be more enthusiastic