IRON MAN 2 is Empire's cover story

Word got around last week that the first trailer for Iron Man 2 (07.05.10), and the first footage seen since those lucky enough to attend this year's Comic-Con got a sneak glimpse at, will play with prints of Sherlock Holmes (26.12.09), Paramount's strategy being that... A) Holmes is gonna be a crowd-pleasing, well attended Christmas hit. B) It stars Robert Downey Jr. in the title role, the star of the Iron Man franchise. C) Kick-Ass kind of stole the buzz away from the Iron Man sequel at the Con, and this movie doesn't quite have that rip-roaring thunderous mystery buzz the first film had around this time two years ago. We know what Iron Man is all about, we are familiar with Jon Favreau's vision of the character and we like it. Downey Jr as Stark needs no introduction, so a few less weeks/months of a campaign won't hurt his movie. I think we would all appreciate some surprises before it's released in May. The reason I've wrote this post, is that I've just been sent a link to Coming Soon who have the front cover image of January's edition of Empire magazine, a copy of which I usually receive on either Monday or Tuesday, so seen as though it hasn't come through my door today... I can expect to get my hands on it tomorrow. Looks really cool and yet doesn't really show us anything. Got me excited anyways...