Tony Stark: The Invincible Iron Man Appreciation 2022

[Iron Maiden]

Yes, I have to say I also liked that Cantwell brought back spoilers:

the Titantium Man

end of spoilers, an oldie from Stan Lee. I don't think he's been in anything since maybe the 1990s.

Oops, forgot about that IM2020. Well it works even better, same issue count for there to be a Cantwell Iron Man Omnibus in the solicits for 4Q 2023.
The Collections Dept has really dropped the ball on IM Omnis vs other A-list characters.

It won't be in Omnibus form. Those are huge. For example, I have one volume of Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four and it's the size of the old phone books. They could split it into maybe several TPBs. They did that with Cantwell's Doctor Doom series. Two TPBs with 5 issues each.

There's also another type of book called the Epic Collection. I have this one and they are small hardcovers

[Shadowcat]

I loved the return of the Unicorn, TM, and Korvac. While I was a little over the Korvac storyline, but it was the cosmic god armor that really turned me off from the story. I definitely needed some more classics here. Like Whiplash, Spymaster, maybe a solo tale vs. Crimson Dynamo, etc.

[K7P5V]

Yeah... spoilers:

It's true that it doesn't have to be Tony wearing the helmet, Bendis's run did have Doctor Doom as Iron Man, with Ironheart starring in a book that also had Iron Man as the title instead of her own name. So Tony dying doesn't equal book cancelled. Maybe they'll have Jim Rhodes wear the red and gold armour? It wouldn't be his first time.

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Correct. Hopefully they've worked the kinks out, if Rhodey dons the Red & Gold again...

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There's also another type of book called the Epic Collection. I have this one and they are small hardcovers

Me too! I also have this Marvel Premiere Classic HC in my collection. Definitely a keepsake (IMHO):

[MichaelC]

Any word on the new creative team?

[Huntsman Spider]

Any word on the new creative team?

Not yet, though considering they finally revealed who'll be taking over Fantastic Four after the A.X.E. tie-in issues following Dan Slott's departure from FF . . . I could see Iron Man's not taking that much longer.

[juan678]

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[Frontier]

I enjoy Duggan as a writer so having him shepherd Tony could be fun...although losing his wealth, fame, and privilege feels so "been there, done that."

All the same it'll be nice to see some old armors .

[MichaelC]

losing his wealth, fame, and privilege feels so "been there, done that."

This^

I don't care in the slightest that Stark is losing those things. I'd rather he mourn the PEOPLE he has lost over the years, like his fiance Rumiko. Stark never seems to mourn PEOPLE, which makes it impossible to care that when he loses THINGS.

This just sounds like another run where Stark loses THINGS and doesn't even seem to remember all the PEOPLE he's lost over the years.

[Shadowcat]

I’m…apprehensively optimistic about Duggan, but what’s been solicited doesn’t grab me by the throat and says “you will read this, and it will be the second coming!!!”

If I ever have the chance to pitch an Iron Man run, it'd have Bethany Cabe, Rhodey, Suzi Endo, Madame Masque, Justine Hammer would return as a financial adversary, as well as the Crimson Cowl, she'd also finance his rogues to upgrade their gear, Crimson Commando, and a noir-type Cold War era thriller, the Ghost, a new female Spymaster, omg so many things I want to include. I'd focus less on him making these ridiculous upgrades to his armor, and build up who he is as a character. Figure out what he could do as a businessman that doesn't focus on him making weapons, etc.

[MichaelC]

I dunno. It just sounds like another reset run where Stark's narcissism costs him inanimate things, and drives friends away.

Meanwhile he continues to not mourn any of the people he loved who have died, making him come across as a sociopath. Parents dead, mentors Yinsin and Sal Kenedy dead, fiance Rumiko dead, but he never mourns because the writer immediately wants to move on to unrelated stories.

I think the Stark's alcoholism and narcissism costs him inanimate things and drives friends away is just what editorial thinks is the one story you can tell about Stark again and again, so a new writer means very little. It's gotten extremely old. This run hasn't even started yet, and it already feels extremely stale.

[Frontier]

I wonder if people just feel too self-conscious writing Tony as a good guy who is also rich and runs a successful company.

[Digifiend]

Ugh, I hate that we can't link to AIPT images because of /i0. wp. com/ in the urls.

So here's the cover from GamesRadar instead (CBR don't have the news yet!):

[Captain Craig]

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Since Duggan is thrilled to be following Cantwell will he be keeping the developments with Patsy/Hellcat....or is that something also lost?
Will we get two panels and 4 sentences showing how that relationship is just torched?

[MichaelC]

Since Duggan is thrilled to be following Cantwell will he be keeping the developments with Patsy/Hellcat....or is that something also lost?
Will we get two panels and 4 sentences showing how that relationship is just torched?

Probably. I mean, when new writers have started they've even ignored huge events like the death of Stark's fiance. If they can ignore the death of a fiance, they can certainly ignore the breakup of a brief fling.

[Digifiend]

And they are broken up by the way. She rejected his marriage proposal, so now they're just friends.