I started reading this series as my first Iron Man comic maybe around March 2024. I wasn't really focused at the time because I was going back and forth with my grandfather for his eye surgery and helping him daily with his basic needs so really I kind of read these in a haze.

I read up to number 24 and lost track because I got busy with life let's say. I want to revisit and start over and write down what I think because this Iron Man comic for me allowed me to start liking Iron Man beyond the MCU Robert Downey Jr. version.

So this is after the Heroes Reborn event which I haven't read, where Franklin Richards (Reeds son) starts over the whole universe or something Idk, and the only characters who didn't get reset and are trapped in the previous one are Thor and Dr. Doom.

Tony's origin story and all the things he did in the previous runs though haven't changed it seems so I don't really understand what the whole Heroes Reborn thing was about and I'm not really interested in reading that.

The world now thought Tony has been dead, Fujikawa took over Stark industry, Pepper and Rhodey watched over his main assets, and Tony in this story is in a reflective stage and questioning what the purpose of his life really is. He's not acting so much likes playboy and seems very deep in this. And unlike the films he keeps himself separate from Iron Man to protect his secret identity. Having people believe Iron Man is a bodyguard for Stark.

We have a lot of characters introduced for various reasons we don't know yet until future issues. Side characters show up at his comeback celebration from Foggy Nelson, Foggy mother, Pepper Potts who is married to Happy Hogan now, Rhodey. J.J Jameson, Norman Osborne and Starks cousin Morgan who he refers to as the family black sheep.

Tony goes through the motions and gets annoyed how everyone "knows what he should be doing". He doesn't get an answer until he gets a run in by the Death Squad who was most likely hired by Fujikawa to get rid of Stark so they can keep the company. He gets away and fights them as Iron Man. Defeating them but in the process he accidentally helped destroyed a construction building that was being built for a desperate neighborhood that was affected by the "Onslaught". Feeling like his life is a joke of destruction and than rebuilding he decided to make Stark Solutions to purely rebuild and help government, private business and individuals who can pay. The money would all go toward projects of rebuilding for a better tomorrow.

So Tony in this is very conscious and is trying to change things he might not be able to change.

Real beefy comic with plenty of dialogue to keep you busy and become immersed in this world. more