Iron Man Appreciation: Welcome to the Iron Age

[John Keyt]

Fraction for sure great series , Busiek , and please don't judge me to hard but I liked Taylor,s Superior Iron man series short lived thou .

[John Keyt]

Get ready for something truly unexpected within the final pages of INFAMOUS IRON MAN #8

Really, definitely was not expecting what was shown there.....!!

Can't wait to read , enjoying this series much more than I thought I would .

[juan678]

F.R.I.D.A.Y, run a final check on the party list

[juan678]

[Prof. Warren]

Get ready for something truly unexpected within the final pages of INFAMOUS IRON MAN #8

Really, definitely was not expecting what was shown there.....!!

Last page was awesome - did NOT see that coming!

[Frontier]

Last page was awesome - did NOT see that coming!

Actually kind of surprised I didn't see it coming. Seems like the kind of thing I should expect from this Iron Man run at this point .

[Prof. Warren]

Actually kind of surprised I didn't see it coming. Seems like the kind of thing I should expect from this Iron Man run at this point .

For anyone who followed Bendis' X-Men run, it was a very cool moment that touches back to material introduced way back in his X-Men annuals. I love it when writers play the long game.

[Frontier]

For anyone who followed Bendis' X-Men run, it was a very cool moment that touches back to material introduced way back in his X-Men annuals. I love it when writers play the long game.

I don't think that's really playing the long game, just referencing past material or work as Bendis so often does.

[Prof. Warren]

I don't think that's really playing the long game, just referencing past material or work as Bendis so often does.

Certainly Bendis has been thinking about Tony Stark for a long time and had definite thoughts about his possible future. I'm sure he always planned to pay off what he introduced in those annuals, books written well before his IM run began, so having that come around again here qualifies as playing the "long game."

[Tony Stark]

What happened at the end of Infamous Iron Man #8?!?!

[juan678]

What happened at the end of Infamous Iron Man #8?!?!

http://www.cbr.com/interview-brian-b...n-doctor-doom/

[Techno_Knight]

Sorcerer Tony isn't that new a concept. There was that What If? with Stephen & Tony, where Tones became a semi armored sorcerer:



And the UXM Annual Sorcerer Tony had a different look:



It's probably the same version, but there's been a change in his get-up.

Either way, it's quite a nifty idea. Tony may not be suited for some of the more occult versions, but managing to use tech to manipulate magic/energy is an angle worth exploring (Bendis talks a bit about it in that interview). Hell, I'll take anything that gets him out of his "Flat Earth Atheist" phase. Problem is, Bendis is gonna stay on the title it seems, so... yeah.. I mean, didn't you enjoy the talk Tony and Victor had about his motivations? Or that Japan arc that went... somewhere? Or that Tony/Victor buddy-cop book that totes happened? Great times during his tenure, great times...

BC had that rumor flying around that the big guns were going to come back, so honestly, I wouldn't mind Hickman taking a crack at the Iron Man title. Or someone with more imagination who knows his way around tech and doesn't bullshit his way through with pointless scenes and doesn't bother putting even the tiniest bit of thought on the scientific part of Iron Man. If there's a book out there which requires lots of reading and research, it's this one. Priest could probably knock it out of the park, really. His Deathstroke is leagues above every Marvel title out now, and most DC ones (IMO at least). So basically just get someone who's not Bendis. Or Spencer. Or Aaron. Or...

PS: I've been doing some rereading, and I've noticed that Tony's eye color changes constantly. Sometimes in the same book! It's always either brown or blue, so I guess everyone headcanons him differently. I prefer brown, because with the jet black hair and piercing blue eyes he reminds me too much of Bruce Wayne at times and breaks the immersion. Also it fits with my old-ethnicity headcanon.

[juan678]

may 29, 1970
happy birthday, Anthony Edward Stark!

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http://www.cbr.com/iron-man-artificial-heart/