The New Iron Man explodes into action! Spymaster's rampage within Stark Resilient comes to its bloody end! Plus, the assassination of Tony Stark!
Fraction's Iron Man has been a series of mysteries wrapped in intruiges dipped in tempura and fried golden brown, and this issue merely ups the ante. Both sides of this fight are playing high-speed chess, and by the end of the issue, it's unclear who is really ahead. What is clear, however, is that Invincible Iron Man #518 is a good read, and even though the solicitations tried to make a game of the man in the iron mask, it's clear and makes dramatic sense what happens, earning 4.5 out of 5 stars overall. This is an example of how to pull off a multi-issue arc well, with multiple plots and characters used to good effect throughout... Read Full Review
While this issue isn'tquite up to the sky-high standard of the past few installments of Invincible Iron Man, it's still very solid. Read Full Review
Matt Fraction delivers some more memorable material involving the rest of the series' many villains. But with both the Detroit Steel and the Zeke Stane/Mandarin subplots, there's just too little material on hand to fully satisfy. It's a good thing this series ships as often as it does, because Invincible Iron Man has become too crowded and slow-moving for its own good at this point. Once these various conflicts converge more, then Long Way Down should truly hit its stride. Read Full Review
Fraction's story is relatively ambitious to have all these things going on in the same arc. Salvador Larroca's art is still stellar, but I wish some of these separate stories could have been distilled down into their own arcs or broken up a little more. Read Full Review
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