Screaming down the Autobahn in his Audi R8 Spyder on his way to an important meeting, Tony Stark gets waylaid by a roadblock set up to stop a team of thieves. After he gets past the roadblock, a beautiful brunette really takes Tony off-course. Find out what happens next in this exciting new Iron Man 2 digital comic brought to you exclusively by Audi!

Wow, I can’t wait to find out what happens to that Audi!! What a well-defined character!

I’m sorry but when product placement goes beyond simply distracting from a story to become the story, it just makes me want to vomit.

The fact that the billions of dollars being made by this obnoxiousness are going to fund projects like the legal war against the heirs of Jack Kirby in an effort to ensure that they never see a penny of the Marvel money machine built on his back, makes me want to vomit extra-icky stuff.

Tony Stark. Inventor. Industrialist. Super-Hero. Total prostitute for anybody Marvel can pimp him out to.

Seriously, art and commerce need to co-exist peacefully in order for either to thrive - but Marvel is just being super-obnoxious with the licensing.

Isn’t it enough that you went from the brink of bankruptcy to kajillionaires in less than a decade? Can’t you afford to be just a little subtle with the ads, starring characters who star in $3.00-$4.00 books, during an economic climate in which a plurality of your readership is sacrificing food and mortgage money for their love of comics?

Just sayin’.

“I should probably warn you, that as we’ve recently learned, The Sentry also loved him some meth - so things might get kinda weird before the party’s over!”

Is it just me, or is this eerily reminiscent of the Nine Inch Nails video “Happiness in Slavery”?