This is an enjoyable first issue to a major war between man and machine. Arno Stark and his motives are outlined well here, so if you're jumping in now you'll have an easy time making sense of everything. Fans who read Tony Stark: Iron Man will be rewarded with some visuals and themes that progress well here and show us the world is changing. Read Full Review

Whatever else may be said about his comic, it isn't your typical Iron Man book and it's sure to keep things interesting for some time to come. Read Full Review

Arno's crusade against A.I. is interesting, his clearly evil intentions are fun, and the reveal of the leader of the Robot Rebellion is more surprising than it should be. Add in impressive art, and you've got a winner. Read Full Review

Pete Woods has some really good art in this issue. There are some great visual moments and the style of the art has a fluid, moving nature to it that is enjoyable to look at. Read Full Review

The new main character of this comic is a real drag, but fortunately every other character and storyline in this series is far more entertaining. Read Full Review

Fantastic art but the event will leave many uncertain of how to feel of where the event is going. Read Full Review

Ushering in his new era of Iron Man is a very risky leap for Marvel and Dan Slott. I wasn't reading Tony Stark: Iron Man before checking out this #1 and it took me quite some time to get used to those clunky gear shoulder pads and this wild cybernetic world. Luckily, there aresome really redeemable qualities and interesting aspects of this book. Pete Woods is delivering on all futuristic fronts and Slott has already proven his ability to take a beloved character and create an exciting new platform for the hero. Prepare for a steep learning curve and buckle down for marvelous machinery as Iron Man 2020 blasts its way into this new decade. Read Full Review

All in all, not a bad book, per se, but still suffering from the art, the lead character and the story being far from memorable. Fetch might happen in an event tie-in collection in three or four months from now, but not this month. Read Full Review

It feels different and fresh and rather than hitting the same old character beats, puts Arno in a challenging position from the get go. Read Full Review

Iron Man 2020 is a book for the diehards. If you haven’t been enjoying Slott’s time on Iron Man, this probably isn’t going to win you over. It is a table-setting issue first and foremost, but I don’t think it’s really pushing the envelope in terms of the types of AI/robot rebellion stories we’ve seen before. I think this mini-event just hasn’t hit its stride yet and once the pacing gets moving, it will be more effective. But right now it feels like an attempt to get everything in order before delivering the goods. Read Full Review

This issue should be a pleaser for contemporary Iron Man readers, but there's a lack of the fluidity with the various parts of this story that is hard to overlook. Read Full Review

A handful of key moments and decent art make this an okay read, but it feels like Iron Man 2020 #1 is carrying over way too much baggage from the most recent run. Read Full Review

"Iron Man 2020" #1 is a boring, emotionally distant debut for what should be a triumphant new direction for an irreplaceable hero. Read Full Review

On the unmitigated plus side is Woods' artwork. Woods has a lot of funwith the AI elements of the storyline and finds opportunities to reallycut loose. He also has really solid character designs for Bain "thebook's most enjoyable character by a country mile " and Machine Man. The coloring pairs well with the images for a sense of fun that thewriting lacks. Read Full Review

Prelude:
Full disclosure, I haven't read any of Slott's Iron Man so let's see how this goes.

The Good:
I like Arno here.

I like the focal point of AI vs. Humans.

Interesting cliffhanger.

Woods' art is great.

The Bad:
Bad guys on the human side feel unnecessarily evil or over the top evil.

Conclusion:
A very good start to Iron Man 2020. While I can definitely see why people wouldn't like this, I really enjoyed this first issue.

It worked for me. I liked the art and the story felt like it has weight to it. I enjoyed the start now lets see where this leads.

This was pretty good, but there was a lot of set up. And the reveals weren't exactly revealing, at all.

This is for true metal heads. Im not one. The read wasn’t bad but I was not emotionally invested.

The robot revolution is in full swing, with Fake Tony Stark popping in to cheerlead it and Arno opposing it. This issue lays out a lot of plot points and illustrates them with shiny chrome, but it retains the signature problems of Dan Slott-era Iron Man: shallow characterization and facile "hot takes" on big ideas. Nobody takes the protagonist role, stranding this issue as a sort of survey.

I am here only for robot revolution.

Decent new starting point after a long break I took from comics. Arno is not a great protagonist, but the entire idea of Tony feeling more machine than human now is interesting. The cosmic threat of the "Extinction Entity" is boring.

Yeah...typical Slott stuff, I suppose. I'll give this book a try, but this wasn't a great start.

I can't get over how stupid those big gears on Iron Man's suit are.

"Up yours, cosplayer."