Black Comics Characters - War Machine

War Machine is almost one of my favorite comic book characters of all time. Not just because he's black but although he started out as one of Iron Man's supporting characters he has become so vital to the legend of the character that you can't talk about Iron Man without talking about him in his war machine armor or sans armor. His real name is Jim Rhodes. Sometimes characters seem to take on a life of their own and seemingly grow beyond the intentions of the writer. The first writer and artist to bring Jim Rhodes into the Iron Man stories have said that Jim is that kind of character. He went from being one of the supporting characters to Iron Man's closest friend. So close that Rhodes actually filled in for Iron Man. As the years went by, Rhodes was given a suit by Iron man and began operating independently. He had his own solo series during the mid 1990's and now because of his soaring popularity, Marvel is giving his own series again. Put another way, when Iron Man was made into a movie for 2008, Jim Rhodes was put into the movie also. This post has pictures of Jim Rhodes inside and outside the armor. At one point, Rhodes wore alien armor (that is the armor that looks total different from Iron Man).

Rhodes has been depicted in almost every single media that are in use today

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