Some of you may remember a little movie that came out early in 2008 called, “Iron Man.” If you do, you understand that you’re going to see a higher-than-usual number of Iron Man books over the next year-and-a-half. If you’re familiar with mass-produced content commissioned solely to get a character’s name out there as often as possible, you won’t be surprised to hear that many of these efforts will be underwhelming.
This is one such effort.
Two creators who are neither best known for Iron Man work nor in fact any Marvel work produced a story about one of Iron Man’s suits becoming independently sentient, believing that it is the real Iron Man (actually, that it is BETTER then the real Iron Man), and taking on Tony Stark’s responsibilities.
All the while, Tony Stark is in a hospital bed, unable to wake up.
The most interesting part of this story focuses on a competing enemy of mechanical soldier that consist of discarded armor used for black ops who also become sentient and eventually go to war with the rogue Iron Man suit–including framing the suit for murder.
Iron Man’s suits have gone rogue before, so the idea isn’t completely new. Tony has also been accused of murder based on someone hijacking his armor, multiple times. Again, nothing totally original. The fact that Tony Stark is a side character for most of this story, which focuses on his sentient armor (called “Tony Stark 2.0”) is a nice bit of novelty. The execution is workmanlike but not awful. The story doesn’t fit directly into where Iron Man was in 2007, but the events are generic enough that it could fit in many places in 616 continuity. There are some good ideas and the ending has a nice twist but…It’s not worth reading the first five issues just to get to the sixth.
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