Cafu delivers some stellar art throughout this issue. There are so many great visual moments and every panel engaged me with detail and tone. Read Full Review

The fact that this series is still going strong after two issues with the title character not even present shows just how great it is. With a lesser creative team, this book would have potentially collapsed trying to deal with such raw emotional themes, but this series always manages to find some glimmer of hope along the way. For its depiction of mental health alone I think this book will go down as something truly important, and as an Iron Man series it continues to become the gold standard with each passing issue. Its raw, emotional, beautiful and painful, and every issue is nothing short of a delight to read. Read Full Review

Iron Man #9 suffers a bit after a month's delay, since it takes a side journey with Korvac to find an ally and maybe even some validation in his goals and desires. Since the last issue focused on Patty Walker, and this issue focuses on Korvac, it'll be a nice return to have Iron Man back in the next issue. That said, this issue does a good job capturing the horror of a man who has lost his humanity and how the robotic parts that make the man can't even come close to revealing the pain within. Read Full Review

Iron Man #9 puts the spotlight firmly on the villain, turning a would-be recruiting session with the Human Torch into a deep dive into Korvac's past. It reveals a complicated history using clear language and outstanding art, but it remains so faithful to the character that it just winds up extending the problem Korvac's always had: For a supergenius bent on universal conquest, he's awfully dull and dumb. Read Full Review

I liked this issue, it left me wanting more, this is a book that I will definitely add.

This is such a great issue. I get where we are at now as the pacing has been fantastic this issue. I really like how hopeless things feel and this Villain is fantastic. One of the better issues of this solid run!

This series is fantastic. We get a visit centric issue here and the return of an old hero. Incredible art as usual and the narrative being weaved is captivating. If they can finish out this arc with a bang well have an Iron Man tale for the ages

Cantwell provides some of Korvac's fascinating backstory, but it is frustratingly incomplete. How did Korvac gain his cosmic powers? How was his mind resurrected into his new android body? We see how the craven coward Korvac was driven insane by the Badoon, which accounts for his bizarre behavior in this series. The exchange between Korvac & Human Torch regarding HT's proffered "rebirth" was interesting. Korvac's first brutal encounter with Iron Man underscores IM's grim determination to eliminate Korvac as a threat. Cafu's artwork was top notch as usual & the coloring complements it perfectly.

This was nice, especially for people who don't know who Korvac was. I'm not sure if this will properly explain it, if you don't have *any* prior knowledge. But this is still a really well done issue, and CAFU is just the best.

After skipping an issue I picked this back up especially with Cafu back. I have to say it was good. I wish Cantwell didn't stretch things because he can do issues like this one much earlier. We did not need 9 issues to get here but maybe I'm not made for slow churning story telling that emphasizes other characters like Hellcat more than the main characters....This is an Iron Man book after all, which I haven't seen in a while.

Korvac tries to claim kinship with and make an ally of original Human Torch Jim Hammond. Unfortunately, part of the process is sharing the memory of Korvac's unforgivable sin -- that time he kinda killed the Avengers for a minute. This issue looks beautiful and it's pretty powerfully written, but it's too honest to try and erase the fact that Korvac's a fundamentally boring villain. I do give the author some bonus credit for showing (not telling) that the sins Korvac's most ashamed of actually came before the Avengers thing, though.

Just when I thought this series was just the worst, it gives us this pretty good issue. That brings me back in a little.

This is the issue where I've finally cracked and dropped this run of Iron Man. I really enjoyed the first few issues, the character work was solid while it seemed to be setting up the overall story.

But the last few issues have been aimless, just kicking the can down the road in the hope something exciting will happen. Overall, there is a real lack of clarity of what story is actually being told in this run (if any).

This issue spun its wheels so hard that when I finished it I felt like I had blacked out, because I couldn't remember a single thing I read. This run may work more cohesively as a trade, though I fear it would be a very boring read.