Iron Man Appreciation: Welcome to the Iron Age

[Frontier]

Who do people think is going to take over post #800? Who do you want to take over?

At one point I would have thought Nick Spencer would be an ideal choice, given how well he wrote Tony in Secret Empire, but if he's going to take over ASM as rumored, I don't know if he'd be doing IM too. Still, I'm kind of holding out hope for him.

Jim Zub has impressed me with his end run on Uncanny Avengers and as he's one of the co-writers on No Surrender, it's not hard to imagine him going on to something Avengers related after that and I count Iron Man as being in that category.

Al Ewing is a writer who really needs a better break at Marvel. He's a great writer with an obvious love and deep knowledge of Marvel and yet he's usually stuck with C list books that rarely have a shot at a long life. Given that he hasn't had a hit book, I don't know if they'd want to trust him with IM but yet if they gave him a more high profile title, I think he'd knock it out of the park.

And Donny Cates has blown me away with every issue of Doctor Strange and Thanos that he's written so far. I don't know if Tony Stark is a character that he has any affinity for but, man, at this point I'd jump to read anything they put him on.

At this point I'll take any writer who's

A. Actually invested in Tony as a character and in telling stories with Tony.

B. Will actually and effectively use Tony's supporting cast (and not characters they shove into the supporting cast).

C. Somebody who actually gets Tony.

D. Can tell good and effective Iron Man stories.

With the news of Dan Slott ending his Spider-Man run, is it at all possible that he takes over Iron Man?

Slott's Parker Industries storyline felt like an Iron Man parody/"homage," but he would still feel like a random choice to take over the actual Iron Man book.

I don't think he'd be a good fit otherwise.

[Digifiend]

It would please some people... we know Slott wouldn't use MJ!

[cc008]

It would please some people... we know Slott wouldn't use MJ!

LOL GREAT point!

[Frontier]

It would please some people... we know Slott wouldn't use MJ!

Too true .

[Kurolegacy]

It would please some people... we know Slott wouldn't use MJ!

Would that really even be much worse than what we got with Bendis? He barely used MJ as more than a talking prop and only became worse when Riri took over the book since MJ was then pushed further into the background for both Riri and Tony’s mother.

[John Keyt]

I agree Marvell 2100 bring back Fraction .

[MichaelC]

I'd like to see Gregg Hurwitz get a shot.

[John Ossie]

It would please some people... we know Slott wouldn't use MJ!

LOL That's so true, she'd certainly not be a part of the story if he took over LOL.

[Digifiend]

#596 delayed two weeks. Due on January 31st instead of 17th.
https://www.newsarama.com/38005-iron...9-delayed.html

[cc008]

Not at all surprised. Hope he's feeling better.

[Chris Reager]

Good to see this continue...got ‘Demon In A Bottle’ for Christmas which was great.

[Chris Reager]

Currently reading ‘Iron Man: The Inevitable.’

Not sure what to think so far...

[Tony Stark]

Currently reading ‘Iron Man: The Inevitable.’

Not sure what to think so far...

That's one of my favorite mini's with Tony. Come back and tell us what you think after you finished reading it.

[Chris Reager]

That's one of my favorite mini's with Tony. Come back and tell us what you think after you finished reading it.

I actually didn’t mind it, it was different across the board in terms of art and pacing I’ve seen previously..I thought Sinclair/Spymaster was a slick villain and the dialogue between Tony and Dr Dillon was quite good.

What did you think?

(I’m now reading more Invincible Iron Man post-Extremis (‘Execute Program’, ‘Iron Man: House Of M’ and Iron Man: Legacy Of Doom’)

[Michael Watkins]

I loved Iron Man Inevitable. Then again, Arthur Parks is my favorite villain. I miss Sinclair Abbott. He really got into the role.