Posted on December 23, 2011 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Tony Stark comes clean to his employees before finding himself in a fight for his life against the Living Laser. The Review: After the underwhelming Fear Itself, it seems that Matt Fraction is fast replacing Bendis as the new [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Bethany Cabe, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Detroit Steel, Ezekiel Stane, Fear Itself, Hammer Industries, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #511 review, Invincible Iron Man 511, Iron Man, Living Laser, Mandarin, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Pepper Potts, Rescue, Resilient, Salvador Larroca, Shattered Heroes, Splitlip, Spymaster, Stark Resilient, Tony Stark, Weekly Comic Book Review | 4 Comments »
Posted on November 10, 2011 by dfstell
By: Various. (Seriously….it’s half the creative talent at Marvel) The Story: Marvel teases what is to come in 2012 in this 7-part, 64-page anthology-ish issue. Seven Things: 1. Behold the Watcher. This was the spine of the issue and it showed a couple of guys in spacesuits fiddling with The Watcher while he slept. And [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: Brian Michael Bendis, Bryan Hitch, Chris Yost, David Lapham, Dean Stell, Ed Brubaker, Ed McGuinness, Fred Van Lente, Javier Pulido, Javier Rodriguez, Jeph Loeb, Marvel, Matt Fraction, Point One, Point One #1, Point One #1 review, review, Roberto De La Torre, Ryan Stegman, Salvador Larroca, Terry Dodson | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 17, 2011 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Tony discovers unexpected problems while Pepper finds herself faced by both Sasha Hammer’s Hammer Corps and the Worthy-fied Grey Gargoyle. What’s Good: Pepper Potts to the rescue! Really, were it not for her, this would’ve been a pretty drab [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Comics Reviews, Fear Itself, golem, Grey Gargoyle, H.A.M.M.E.R., Hammer Corps, Hammer Industries, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #507 review, Invincible Iron Man 507, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Odin, Pepper Potts, Rescue, Salvador Larroca, Sasha Hammer, Stark Resilient, Svartalfheim, the Serpent, the Worthy, Tony Stark, Weekly Comic Book Review | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 24, 2011 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Tony makes a deal with Odin that finds him playing Snow White. What’s Good: While I was fairly positive of it in my review in Fear Itself, I’ve become somewhat divided on Tony sacrificing his sobriety to Odin. On [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Fear Itself, Grey Gargoyle, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #506, Invincible Iron Man #506 review, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Odin, Paris, Pepper Potts, Rescue, Salvador Larroca, Stark Resilient, the Worthy, Tony Stark, Weekly Comic Book Review | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 19, 2011 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors, and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: “Paris is a nightmare. It’s…it’s biblical, Pep.” The Review: A lot of comic readers resent event tie-in issues. I think a large part of this often-merited resentment has to do with the fact that they often derail a writer [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Avengers, Bethany Cabe, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Detroit Steel, Fear Itself, Fear Itself tie-in, Grey Gargoyle, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #505, Invincible Iron Man #505 review, Invincible Iron Man 50, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Paris, Pepper Potts, Salvador Larroca, Stark Resilient, the Worthy, Tony Stark, Weekly Comic Book Review | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 18, 2011 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: After hiring a new chief of security, Tony Stark flies to Paris’ rescue, only to find a city of stone. The Review: I know a lot of people ragged on Invincible Iron Man during the “building a car” arc. [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Arbogast, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Fear Itself, Grey Gargoyle, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #504, Invincible Iron Man #504 review, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Paris, Pepper Potts, Salvador Larroca, Stark Resilient, the Worthy, Tony Stark, Weekly Comic Book Review | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 20, 2011 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Tony fights to disarm Doc Ock’s bomb while Pepper goes for another round with Sandman and Electro. The Review: I think it’s issues like this that make people aggravated about event tie-ins. Looking at the cover of this issue, [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Avengers, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Doc Ock, Doctor Octopus, Electro, Howard Chaykin, Howard Stark, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #503, Invincible Iron Man #503 review, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Obadiah Stane, Pepper Potts, Pimacher, Salvador Larroca, Sandman, Sinister Six, Stark Resilient, Tim Cababa, Tony Stark, Weekly Comic Book Review | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 30, 2011 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Pasqual Ferry & Salvador Larroca (art), Matt Hollingsworth & Ulises Arreola (colors), and John Workman (letters) The Story: The Blood Legion battles the World Eaters for all the marbles. The Review: I’m really pretty torn over this comic. As a huge fan of Thor, there were things that really worked and [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Asgard, Asgardian, Asgardians, Avengers, Balder, Blood Legion, Broxton, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Eric Solvang, Jane Foster, Kelda, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Odin, Pasqual Ferry, Salvador Larroca, Thor, Thor #621, Thor #621 review, Tyr, Uthana Thoth, Weekly Comic Book Review, World Eaters, World Tree | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 19, 2011 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Tony continues his battle of wits with Doc Ock while Pepper battles Electro and the Sandman. The Review: In its second installment, this Doc Ock story-arc continues to be really good, almost surprisingly so. It’s great writing by Matt [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Avengers, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Doc Ock, Doctor Octopus, Electro, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #502, Invincible Iron Man #502 review, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Otto Octavius, Pepper Potts, Pimacher, Salvador Larroca, Sandman, Sinister Six, Spider-Man, Tony Stark, Weekly Comic Book Review | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 28, 2011 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: A dying Doctor Octopus makes Tony an offer, or rather a demand, that he cannot refuse. The Review: Tony Stark versus Doctor Octopus? What the hell? That was my initial reaction while reading this issue, having come in expecting [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Avengers, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Doctor Octopus, Electro, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #501, Invincible Iron Man #501 review, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Otto Octavius, Pepper Potts, Salvador Larroca, Sandman, Spider-Man, Stark Resilient, Tim Cababa, Tony Stark, Weekly Comic Book Review | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 3, 2011 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larocca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Tony attends a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous, where he retells his history and his struggles. What’s Good: This is one incredibly well-written comic. Given that there are a lot of words on the page, as it’s basically one giant [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: .1 comics, .1 Marvel, alcoholics anonymous, Alcoholism, Alex Evans, Avengers, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Hammer Industries, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #500.1, Iron Man, James Rhodes, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Obediah Stane, Pepper Potts, Salvador Larroca, Stark Industries, Stark Solutions, Tony Stark, War Machine, Weekly Comic Book Review | 4 Comments »
Posted on January 22, 2011 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca, Frank D’Armata, Nathan Fox, Javier Rodriguez, Carmine Di Giandomenico, & Matthew Wilson (art & colors), Kano (art), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Tony enlists the aid of former employee Peter Parker to help remember, and stop, a weapon he forgot he invented. Meanwhile, we also get a glimpse [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Avengers, Bastard Sons of Wilbur Day, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Ginny Stark, Howard Stark, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #500 review, Invincible Iron Man 500, Iron Man, Iron Man 2.0, James Rhodes, Kano, Mandarin, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Nathan Fox, Nick Spencer, Peter Parker, Salvador Larroca, Spider-Man, Stilt-Man, Tony Stark, War Machine, Weekly Comic Book Review, Wilbur Day | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 24, 2010 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Tony takes the Resilient on a test drive as he tries to escape Detroit Steel and his horde of drones. What’s Good: I realize that a lot of people have complained regarding the pace of this arc. While I [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Detroit Steel, Ezekiel Stane, General Babbage, Guantanamo Bay, H.A.M.M.E.R., Hammer Industries, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #33, Invincible Iron Man #33 review, Iron Man, James Rhodes, Justine Hammer, Maria Hill, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Matt Fraction, Pepper Potts, repulsor, Rescue, Salvador Larroca, Sasha Hammer, SHIELD, Stark Resilient, Tony Stark, War Machine, Weekly Comic Book Review | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 14, 2010 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Ghost makes his move and the gang brings in some outside help. What’s Good: Stark Disassembled continues not to disappoint. For the second month in a row, the scenes in Tony’s mind have improved. Tony’s new surroundings make him [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Black Widow, Bucky Barnes, Captain America, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Donald Blake, Dr. Strange, ghost, H.A.M.M.E.R., Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #22, Invincible Iron Man #22 review, Iron Man, Maria Hill, Marvel Comics, Matt Fraction, Natasha Romanova, Pepper Potts, Salvador Larroca, Stark Disassembled, Steve Rogers, Thor, Thunderbolts, Tony Stark, War Machine, Weekly Comic Book Review | 5 Comments »
Posted on December 10, 2009 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: The surgery to restore Tony Stark takes place. What’s Good: The strange desert scenes within Tony’s mind were my high point in this month’s issue. Last issue, I found these scenes a little too weird and obscure, but this [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Avengers, Captain America, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Dark Reign, ghost, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #21, Invincible Iron Man #21 review, Iron Man, Madame Masque, Maria Hill, Marvel Comics, Matt Fraction, Oklahoma, Pepper Potts, Rescue, Salvador Larroca, Sooner, Stark, Stark Disassembled, Thor, Thunderbolts, Tony Stark, Weekly Comic Book Review | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 22, 2009 by paladinking
by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: World’s Most Wanted comes to an end as Hill, Pepper, and Black Widow try to escape HAMMER and Stark tries to survive the Iron Patriot. What’s Good: The best thing I can say about this book is that it [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Alex Evans, Avengers, Black Widow, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Dark Reign, Extremis, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #19, Invincible Iron Man #19 review, Iron Man, Iron Patriot, Maria Hill, Marvel, Matt Fraction, Natasha Romanova, Norman Osborn, Pepper Potts, Rescue, Salvador Larroca, Thor, Tony Stark, Victoria Hand, Weekly Comic Book Review, World's Most Wanted | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 3, 2009 by pozzyfreak
By Matt Fraction (Writer), Salvado Larroca (Art), and Frank D’Armata (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: As Matt Fraction gets closer to the conclusion of the epic “World’s Most Wanted” arc, I’m beginning to think there isn’t a happy ending in Tony Stark’s future. Especially now that Marvel has released the ominous “Stark on a [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Black Widow, Comic Book Reviews, Dark Reign, Disney, Frank D'Armata, Invincible Iron Man #17 Review, Invinicible Iron Man, Kyle Posluszny, Mariah Hill, Marvel Comics, Matt Fraction, Norman Osborn, Salvador Larroca, Tony Stark, WCBR, Weekly Comic Book Review, weeklycomicbookreview.com, World's Most Wanted, World's Most Wanted Chapter 10 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 18, 2009 by tonyrak
By Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (artist), Frank D’Armata (colorist) On the run, depowered, and dethroned from the seat of power he built in Civil War and held through Secret Invasion, Tony Stark is now the world’s most wanted man; compliments of his usurper, Norman Osborn. Through a complex series of lies, executions, and skillful [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews, The Graphic Novel Reader | Tagged: Dark Reign, Frank D'Armata, Graphic Novel Reader, H.A.M.M.E.R., Invincible Iron Man: World's Most Wanted HC, Iron Patriot, Maria Hill, Marvel, Matt Fraction, Norman Osborn, Pepper Potts, Salvador Larroca, Tony Rakittke, Tony Stark | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 9, 2009 by pozzyfreak
By Matt Fraction (Writer), Salvador Larroca (Artist), and Frank D’Armata (Colorist) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Invincible Iron Man is easily one of the best Marvel monthlies. Matt Fraction writes one hell of a Tony Stark and his handling of Stark’s inner circle (which includes Mariah Hill and Pepper Potts) has been absolutely brilliant. The [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: comic reviews, Dark Reign, Frank D'Armata, Futurepharm, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #13 Review, Kyle Posluszny, Madame Masque, Mariah Hill, Marvel comic Reviews, Marvel Comics, Matt Fraction, Norman Osborn, Pepper Potts, Salvador Larroca, Starktech, The Controller, The Good, Tony Stark, WCBR, Weekly Comic Book Review, weeklycomicbookreview.com | 6 Comments »
Posted on February 6, 2009 by tonyrak
By Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (artist), Frank D’Armata (colorist) The Story: In part three of “World’s Most Wanted,” Norman Osborn unleashes the full fury of H.A.M.M.E.R. down on Stark, raiding Tony’s global offices and seizing his technology, and issuing a warrant for Tony’s arrest for crimes against humanity. Now as officially Earth’s most wanted [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: Dark Reign, Frank D'Armata, H.A.M.M.E.R., Invincible Iron Man 10, Iron Patriot, Maria Hill, Matt Fraction, Norman Osborn, Pepper Potts, Running Press, Salvador Larroca, Tony Stark, World's Most Wanted | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 9, 2009 by pozzyfreak
By Matt Fraction (Writer), Salvador Larroca (Art), and Frank D’Armata (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: I’ll admit that I was a bit worried that the excellent Invincible Iron Man series would lose a bit of it’s flavor now that it’s a major part of Marvel’s Dark Reign. However, all doubts were quickly laid to [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: Comic Book Reviews, Dark Reign, Extremis, Frank D'Armata, H.A.M.M.E.R., Invincible Iron Man, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Matt Fraction, Norman Osborn, Pepper Potts, Salvador Larroca, Secret Invasion, SHIELD, The Invincible Iron Man #9 Review, Tony Stark Mariah Hill | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 14, 2008 by tonyrak
By Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (artist), Frank D’Armata & Stephane Peru (colorists) To understand the future of Marvel Comics, pay close attention to its B list titles because it’s there that the next generation of writers are quietly honing their craft and building huge excitement on books that aren’t otherwise getting a lot of attention right [...]
Filed under: Image Comics, Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Ezekiel Stane, Frank D'Armata, Image Comics, Invincible Iron Man Vol. 1 - The Five Nightmares Premie, Invincible Iron Man: The Five Nightmares HC, Matt Fraction, Pepper Potts, Salvador Larroca, SHIELD, Stephane Peru, Tony Stark | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 7, 2008 by pozzyfreak
By Matt Fraction (Writer), Salvador Larroca (Art), and Frank D’Armata (Colors) The Story: Spider-Man and Ben Urich (of Front Line fame) guest star in an Iron Man story that serves as a epilogue of sorts to the series’ opening arc, “The Five Nightmares”. As Tony Stark goes about cleaning up the mess and black market [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Ben Urich, Brand New Day, Comics, Ezekiel Stane, Frank D'Armata, Front Line, Invincible Iron Man #7 Reviews, Iron Man, Marvel, Matt Fraction, One More Day, poignant, Salvador Larroca, Spider-Man, Spiderman, The Five Nightmares, Tinkerer, Tony Stark | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 13, 2008 by pozzyfreak
By Matt Fraction (Writer), Salvador Larroca (Artist), and Frank D’Armata (Colorist) The Story: Matt Fraction concludes the opening arc of his new Iron Man series with the much anticipated showdown between Tony Stark and Ezekiel Stane. As always, Mr. Stark has a plan, but Stane isn’t willing to go down without a fight. Can Iron [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Ezekial Stane, Frank D'Armata, Invincible Iron Man #6, Iron Man, Marvel, Matt Fraction, Obediah Stane, Pepper Potts, Salvador Larroca, SHIELD, Stark Industries, Technology, terrorism, The Five Nightmares, Tony Stark | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 3, 2008 by andrewcmurphy
By Matt Fraction (story), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors) Matt Fraction continues to demonstrate how Iron Man should be written. This should have been the Iron Man movie. Seriously. Why can’t anyone in Hollywood write super-heroes this well? If you’ve read the previous issues, you pretty much know what’s happening this issue. In a chillingly [...]
Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: Ezekiel Stane, Frank D'Armata, Invincible Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man #5, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, Matt Fraction, Salvador Larroca, V | 2 Comments »
