Comments on: Invincible Iron Man #22 – Review

By: Dustin Wood

Dustin Wood — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:25:42 +0000

Hey,
Amazing review! I completly agree that its not really making sense not to go to Strange in the first place but I dont think he is irrelivant to the storyline. I only subscribe to Iron Man and it feels likeits been forever since ive seen Strange, I was pumped to see him again.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:56:09 +0000

I didn’t get the impression that the operation totally failed. From the outside, nothing changed, but inside Tony’s mind, he’s starting to get it all together. Whereas before he could not avoid the machines before having to reset and begin his desert digging anew, after the operation he’s able to complete the dig and get inside and start to put things together. That couldn’t have happened without his realization that he now has the pulse generator and support from his friends “Howard and Maria.” Ultimately, Tony’s operation succeeded as he had planned for his physical body and brain, but he did not account for the fact that his brain is not a computer and has mental/emotional issues to work out.

By: paladinking

paladinking — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:55:55 +0000

@SoldierHawk

Thank you for the kind words.

I feel as though this direction of Dr. Strange and Stark adventuring in Stark’s mind was the story Fraction really wanted to tell in this arc. It has a very promising kind of life to it that, as you say, has me really optimistic regarding next month’s issue. The previous stuff seems it might have been just a way to extend an arc to 5 issues.

@Adam

Hmm, yes that’s a good question. Unfortunately, I also skipped Pak’s series. I am fairly certain though that he was a cyborg at least at the beginning of that book. How it ended though, I’ve no idea.

-Alex

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:36:07 +0000

This was another fun issue from Fraction, but I have a question I’m hoping someone here can answer. When did Rhodey stop being a cyborg? I didn’t follow the recently-cancelled ongoing, but was he somehow returned to normal at the end? Or are we just pretending that never happened?

By: SoldierHawk

SoldierHawk — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:02:27 +0000

This review is just about dead-on in my opinion. It did advance the plot and there was certainly nothing WRONG with it, but nothing about the first 90% of it truly blew me away. Then of course Dr. Strange showed up, and the book *took off* for me. Those scenes were simply amazing, both in writing and in artwork, and that last line and panel…wow. MAybe I’m easily impressed, but the visual and symbolism there just gave me goosebumps. (And I couldn’t help but smile at the “Remember this is not a ritual–it’s a MEDICAL PROCEDURE” panel. I know that’s how Strange operates, but the juxtaposition of the line and the visual got a nice chuckle out of me.)

The way this one ended gives me very high hopes for next month. I look forward to a lot of Tony/Strange dialogue in the very cool “Tony’s brain” world they’ve created, and hopefully by the end of the issue we’ll have Tony back to the land of the living. (I want to see Iron Man kick the snot out of Iron Patriot dammit!!)