Amidst the e-mails I received this weekend about how Wolverine sucked and how fanboys have unrealistic expectations for blockbuster films, there was one that essentially called me out for not posting the first Iron Man II image, above, from USA Today.

I think it’s a pretty bad ass first image, though some internet folks seem to be bitching and moaning. Here’s why those people are wrong: it’s the first image, there are four suits and new screen tech.

First image: what were you guys expecting, Iron Man in full costume with Scarlett Johansson hanging all over him? The flick is right in the middle of principal photography. If director Jon Faverau didn’t know from the last Iron Man that taking care of the internet fanboys is important, we still wouldn’t have seen sh*t from this film. And the shots that would have leaked would have been of cast moving in and out of sound stages, not an actual production still.

Four suits - From left to right, the re-built Mach I, the all-silver Mach II, the beat-up Mach III from the Iron Monger battle at the end of the first flick and a fourth suit that looks to be modeled off the classic Avengers Iron Man with a tad more gold.

Screen Tech - those amazing screens either had rough VFX added to them as a production still or are actually semi-transparent. The fact that I’m thinking about the latter makes me excited as a tech geek.

Oh, yeah, and what’s in the box?

Also evidence of me sucking at the end of last week, I completely missed the first Inglorious Basterds character poster with Nazi-killing Brad Pitt.

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