Tony Stark: The Invincible Iron Man Appreciation 2023

[Tony Stark]

I wanna see Tony build the new armor already.

Come on you've been building this up for several issues, show us the Mysterium armor.

Yes. Yes, indeed. "Chekhov's Gun" is one thing. This sounds like a case of "Chekhov's Armor."

Agreed! Let’s be done with it now! It’s time for Tony to present it.

[Mantis-Ray]

idk i feel like once he built that armor no other armor should top it the way they are building it up

Oh definitely, like the hard-light armor at the end of the Slott run.

Still I wanna see the new look. We usually get some good visuals out of it.

[marhawkman]

That's how it goes when a character has been gone for long time, they get distilled down to their (perceived) essence.

So, magic space rings it is!

Pretty clear it would going this way with how much Tony has been yammering about them corrupting RiRi.

Yeah, some depictions seemed to want to depict them as magic rocks, and not tech :/

[Dermie]

Anyone that’s a fan of Tony’s should pick up and read the story in Marvel Voices: The Avengers #1 called Stark Reminder. It is a really good story about Tony’s addiction and him reaching out to someone else who’s in the same boat. Great stuff. It also got big points from me just by bringing in Henry Hellrung who is a character I’ve loved since his inception and wish they would bring him around more often.

Yeah, seeing Henry Hellrung again was a very pleasant surprise.

[MichaelC]

How The Mandarin's fight with Punisher should have ended:

[marvelprince]

Yeah, seeing Henry Hellrung again was a very pleasant surprise.

Henry shows up? Ain’t I have to check that out. I just reread The Order, still holds up so well today.

[Hypestyle]

This is the sort of thing you would never see from Chip Zdarsky. I hate that Zdarsky is allowed to write Stark so often.

hopefully Mr. Stark is supportive of social equity and resists the anti-DEI antagonism rife in today's USA.

[juan678]

[Digifiend]

The Illuminati doing Dragon's Den?

[Tony Stark]

Henry shows up? Ain’t I have to check that out. I just reread The Order, still holds up so well today.

I recently reread The Order and you are correct. It definitely still holds up. Just brilliant stuff by Fraction.

[Digifiend]

Rumour: Tony is officially joining the X-Men, leading his own team! Iron Man and the X-Men by Dan Slott.
https://boards.4channel.org/co/thread/141129941

[Tony Stark]

Rumour: Tony is officially joining the X-Men, leading his own team! Iron Man and the X-Men by Dan Slott.
https://boards.4channel.org/co/thread/141129941

Hell F@#king Yeah!!!!!! Sign me up!

[Huntsman Spider]

Rumour: Tony is officially joining the X-Men, leading his own team! Iron Man and the X-Men by Dan Slott.
https://boards.4channel.org/co/thread/141129941

Hell F@#king Yeah!!!!!! Sign me up!

Interesting if that turns out to be accurate, though I would definitely not be averse to more nonmutant heroes showing solidarity with the X-Men, or mutants in general, given how the current situation with Orchis once again exposes the hard reality that it wouldn't take all that much, just one bad day, one catastrophic incident involving superheroes or superhumans, to turn the general public against anyone and everyone with powers, regardless of where those powers come from. Hell, Days of Future Past was the first to show Sentinels targeting nonmutant superheroes, as the cold logic of their A.I. wouldn't see a meaningful difference between mutants and other superhumans, and Civil War roughly 25 years later showed that without a vast mutant population on which to focus the public's ire and fear, their (and the government's) attention would turn to regulating and controlling the superhero community at large after that "one catastrophic incident," as I said before.

[marhawkman]

Interesting if that turns out to be accurate, though I would definitely not be averse to more nonmutant heroes showing solidarity with the X-Men, or mutants in general, given how the current situation with Orchis once again exposes the hard reality that it wouldn't take all that much, just one bad day, one catastrophic incident involving superheroes or superhumans, to turn the general public against anyone and everyone with powers, regardless of where those powers come from. Hell, Days of Future Past was the first to show Sentinels targeting nonmutant superheroes, as the cold logic of their A.I. wouldn't see a meaningful difference between mutants and other superhumans, and Civil War roughly 25 years later showed that without a vast mutant population on which to focus the public's ire and fear, their (and the government's) attention would turn to regulating and controlling the superhero community at large after that "one catastrophic incident," as I said before.

I still don't get why in modern Marvel it's written with X-Men seemingly being the only ones to care about Sentinels.

[Digifiend]

The other heroes think the Sentinels only target mutants. They don't seem to know about Days of Future Past where they'd destroyed the Avengers and Fantastic Four (only Franklin was left of the FF, while the Avengers were wiped out, all we ever see of them in that story is gravestones).