Iron Man has made over 355 Million Dollars world-wide. To help put that in perspective for Robert Downey Jr., that’s like a really big pile of coke. What is it about these comic book movies that draw people to the box office? It’s not like every comic book movie that comes out is a hit (I’m looking at you Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer). But there’s that special ability that each superhero has that draws you to them and makes you think “man, how cool would it be if I could do that?” Of course eventually you eat an entire bag of animal crackers and the weed wears off, but still, it’s fun to imagine.
The world-wide success of a character whose success is based on a suit made of iron has me baffled to be quite honest (please no comments educating me about the underwater capabilities or radioactive powers of Iron Man, unless he has some really outlandish power like the ability to turn boogers into bullets or something). However, as I thought of the many comic book superheroes there are while watching the Pistons-Magic game tonight I began to make incredible comparisons between basketball players in the NBA playoffs still and these Marvel superheroes. A list quickly followed…
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) and Tayshaun Prince (Pistons)
The Incredible Hulk and Rasheed Wallace
Superman and Dwight Howard (Magic)
Hawkeye – Chris Anderson (Hornets)
The Joker and Scot Pollard (Celtics)
Lex Luther and Marcin Gortat (Magic)
Johnny Storm (Human Torch) and Matt Bonner (Human Ginger) (Spurs)
Iceman and Robert Horry (Spurs)
The Penguin and Manu Ginobili (Spurs)
Thing and Ronny Turiaf
Captain America and Lebron James (Cavaliers)
And finally …..Silver Surfer and Kevin Garnett (Celtics)
Wonderwoman and Vladimir Radmanovic
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Hey!, what made you want to write on Iron Man rakes in the dough, The Green Lantern is Pissed? I was wondering, because I have been thinking about this since last Tuesday.