Iron Man 2.0 #3

Presumably when Babbage wants Stark to fire Rhodes, he means he wants Stark to supply someone else to be War Machine. If Babbage wanted War Machine off the Palmer Addley project, or to sever the contract with Stark, he could do that himself. Why does Babbage expect to talk to Maria Hill at Stark Resilient? She's head of SHIELD, as well as working with the Avengers for Steve Rogers. She doesn't work for Stark. Babbage seems disturbed by Pepper's claims about Addley's fake file. But next issue we will learn that he's been trying to get hold of the real version. I don't know whether he was just annoyed that an outsider figured it out. Or whether he didn't know about it, and his attempts to get access to the real file happen within this issue. (Ie there's a gap between Pepper getting on the case and Kaylie being given permission.) Is Ghost Tech stolen from the Ghost? Tony says Chameleon Mode won't have the bad side effects it used to have. He's referring to the Silver Centurion armour he wore from Iron Man #200-230. Palmer Addley Is Dead continues next issue, but without James Rhodes, in or out of any suit of armour. The first time Jim gets to use the new suit here is during Fear Itself in #5-7 (and Secret Avengers #13). As we will see there the IM 2.0 armour can extrude weapons similar (but smaller) than the permanent WM ones. The concurrent Infinity Gems story in Avengers features the old armour (but WM doesn't do much with it), and so must occur before this. There could be a gap between #1 and #2, so that story *could* happen there. The concurrent Secret Avengers story featuring Shang-Chi seems to have the new armour with retractable weapons (at least in #10), so this adventure probably fits between here and Fear Itself, making it really the 1st use of the Iron Man 2.0 suit in battle.