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The Invincible Iron Man #517 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2012 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Stane goes poking around his own body, Spymaster wreaks office havoc, Tony removes the Extremis Armour, and “Detroit Steel” gets creepy. The Review:  Matt Fraction gets a lot of slack for the decompression present in a lot of his [...]

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The Invincible Iron Man #516 – Review

Posted on May 4, 2012 by paladinking

By: Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story:  Hammer makes being Iron Man impossible; Stane finds himself trapped with his back against the wall; the mole within Stark Resilient is revealed. The Review:  The sudden resurgence of Matt Fraction’s Invincible Iron Man after Fear Itself has been [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #514 – Review

Posted on March 24, 2012 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story:  As the Mandarin’s circle tightens around Tony, Hammer and General Babbage give Tony an offer he can’t refuse.  Hint: it really sucks. The Review:  Invincible Iron Man, post-Fear Itself, has experienced a renaissance and it has not been this [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #511 – Review

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 [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #507 – Review

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 [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #506 – Review

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 [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #505 – Review

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 [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #504 – Review

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. [...]

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Avengers #13 – Review

Posted on May 18, 2011 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (script), Chris Bachalo (art & colors), Tim Townsend, Jaime Mendoza, Al Vey, & Wayne Faucher (inks), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story:  The Avengers recount the early days of Fear Itself. The Review:  This is a very difficult issue to review.  Quite frankly, if you don’t like Brian Bendis, particularly Bendis [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #503 – Review

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, [...]

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Iron Man 2.0 #3 – Review

Posted on April 17, 2011 by paladinking

by Nick Spencer (writer), Barry Kitson & Carmine Di Giandomenico (art), Kano (art & colors), Matthew Wilson & Frank Martin (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: As the mystery deepens, Rhodey gets a very special present from Tony Stark. The Review:  After a fantastic first issue, it seems that Iron Man 2.0 continues to [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #501 – Review

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 [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #33 – Review

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 [...]

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What We’re Looking Forward To In November

Posted on October 31, 2010 by paladinking

Dean There is a LOT to look forward to in November. For one thing, there is a lot of neat stuff in the Spider-Man world as Amazing Spider-Man kicks off its new “big” story line Big Time written by Dan Slott with art by Humberto Ramos. This is also the end of the thrice-monthly ASM [...]

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