Entertainment Weekly offers a peek, not at the spring 2010 Iron Man sequel; but an image from the two-disc DVD (out Sept. 30) — part of a segment on how Robert Downey Jr., as genius flight-suit inventor Tony Stark, mastered a wire rig attached to his feet. Director Jon Favreau didn’t want Downey flying around in the usual hip-based harness: ”It smacks of Peter Pan.”

Care for another look behind the curtain of comic-book-movie protocol? Favreau points out that ”any superhero outfit you see, I guarantee there’s been 50 hours’ discussion on how the crotch looks.”