Most of us will never attend San Diego's much vaunted Comic Con and let's face it… most of us wouldn't want to even if we could. A week in a warehouse with thousands of sweaty, fat, unkempt comic book geeks jostling for position to see who can be first to get Michael Bay's signature (and then later claim they didn't really want it, but he insisted) or watch three seconds of footage from the upcoming Dead or Alive movie… I don't know about the rest of you but that sounds like my own kind of personal hell. If I'm going to spend a few weeks out of town, I'm spending them in the Caribbean on a beach.

While we were all at home contemplating a vacation that includes Margaritas, the guys at JoBlo were there slogging through the deodorant free zone that is Con. They attended an Iron Man panel that included director Jon Favreau, where he talked about who he'll be pitting his hero against. Hopefully, I've made it clear that it's JoBlo who dug this story up for all of us. I've seen more than a few websites (blogs mostly) regurgitating some of these Comic Con scoops as if they were their own, even though they haven't even sniffed the entryway to San Diego Comic Con or anywhere else for that matter that might ever provide them with a legitimate scoop. Unlike the web's attention whoring, irresponsible blogs, we're going to tell you who really did the legwork on anything we report, and encourage you to click over to the source and get their take on the story along with ours. We're not thieves. Our aim is merely to bring you everything you'd want to know about what's happening in movies all in one place with our unique take on it. Not to steal stories and credit from others.

I think there was a news story in here somewhere… oh yes. Iron Man.

So the great Jon Favreau announced today at Comic Con that Iron Man will be fighting Mandarin in his first theatrical adventure. I've never read a single Iron Man comic, but I did watch enough of the 90s cartoon to figure out who Mandarin is. He's Iron Man's arch villain, a green guy with pointy ears and obsession with magical rings. I'm sure in the Iron Man fan community (if such a thing exists) he's wildly popular, but as a disinterested outsider he (and most of Iron Man's villains for that matter) never struck me as much of a bad guy. He never fit in with the rest of the technological world of Tony Stark. It's kind of like pitting Robocop versus Saruman. It never made much sense.

Still, if Mandarin is Iron Man's arch rival then I guess it makes sense to fight him. Have faith that Favreau knows what he's doing. Iron Man isn't much of a property but Jon Favreau is one hell of a director.