CCW 2.38: The Invincible Iron Man Review

Elliott and Jose discuss Matt Fraction's Iron Man book and why he just understands characters better than Brian Bendis.

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• Matt
• Fraction
• Iron
• Man
• Brian
• Bendis
• Maria
• Hill

[saar1707]

The new Iron Man armor is suit!

it is one of the most disgusting armor I've seen, I hate those Iron Man armor with pipes in the neck, like WTF why to put those disgusting pipes there?

One of the best looking Iron Man's armor I saw was the armor at the beginning of Extremis .

[comicculturewarrior]

Dude, that's the classic Iron Man armor from Heroes Return by the one-and-only George Perez! I LOVE THAT ARMOR!

But it's OK that you don't. ;-)

Elliott

[pobra17]

Fraction is killing it on this title, this is the benchmark at marvel for how their books should be written, they should put Fraction on new avengers. If anyone could pull that title out of mediocrity and make it something amazing, it's him.

[comicculturewarrior]

I dunno. I really like Iron Man, but I'm not too crazy about Fraction's X-Men. Some writers just have a hard time handling team books (i.e., Bendis) and lose their focus when they have too many characters to juggle.

Elliott

[comicculturewarrior]

Which just goes to show how inadequately Bendis wrote the character.  I don't think it was so much of a red herring as Fraction knowing how to make the character work, as opposed to Bendis who puts a character in to just stir S#!t up and then forgets about them (i.e. Wanda).

Elliott

[LEGOcinema15]

I forgot to add one thing on my other comment(why do I keep doing that???). I never cared for Maria Hill much in Bendis' stories but in Fraction's stories I care for her more. Like when the Controller puts her under his control I immeadiatley thought, "Oh sh*t! How's she gonna get out of this?" As much as I like Bendis some tiny things in his stories bug me.

[LEGOcinema15]

Iron Man and Maria Hill getting it on was probably a Loeb thing. Think about it. EVERY issue of Ultimates 3 someone gets it on with someone else. And with Ultimate Hulk Annual, Hulk gets in on with Zarda. I pray Matt Fraction doesnt turn into a guy like Loeb that would be awful.

[johnnyhorror92182]

I didn't care for his Ultimate Spider-Man books either.

[kurumais]

yeah an advanced race of shape shifters infiltrate the earth over months and months and then line up for a gang fight in central park for all the marbles????

[kurumais]

wow bendis bashing

ill tell ya 2 books that never disappoint and in fact always impress me and keep my faith in comics are powers and ultimate spider man

bendis has great characterziation and human moment in both those books

[LordBifford]

During Civil War, I was almost pro-registration, 'cause I was thinking "well, at least this way, they'll have Tony Stark - a good guy - running the programme and not some nasty politician or supervillian." Then this shit happens.

[johnnyhorror92182]

I just would have ended Secret Invasion differently. This is what i would've done:

First, I would have Humanity Surrender to the Skrulls. Then, Osborn (relizing that fighting would be futile) convinces the Villians to side with the Skrulls.

So, the Skrulls Occupy the planet, and the remaining heroes, whom the Skrulls didn't banish to the Negative Zone, form an underground resistance against the Skrulls. This all leads to my mega event series "Revolution" when the heroes retake Earth.

[johnnyhorror92182]

Again, you are correct. So all the heroes gather in one place for one ultra crazy melee. I'm reading this and thinking: 'Why don't the Skrulls just nuke them all from orbit?"

[LordBifford]

It also didn't make sense how easily the Skrulls were defeated. I mean, they just unmasked themselves and had a big battle with the heroes in Times Square - wtf? After an immensely succesful infiltration, THAT was how they planned to finish it?