Reality is in the eye of the beholder, as Tony Stark questions his humanity... while Jocasta is making the choice to leave her robotic body behind and upgrade to biological parts. A turning point is coming to the Marvel Universe as robotic and A.I. rights are being threatened in America. Guest starring the Vision. And featuring the return of one of the Avengers greatest threats!
Rated T+
Diversity has always been a major topic to tackle and Tony Stark Iron Man #15 is a prime example. I love Dan Slotts devotion to this major Marvel hero! Read Full Review
The robot storyline just keeps getting crazier and more fascinating, while the creative team easily juggles several other subplots. Read Full Review
Juana Ramirez and Francesco Manna deliver some great interior art in this issue. The characters look amazing and the action is great as well. Read Full Review
In Tony Stark: Iron Man #15, the title's AI concerns grow some philosophical teeth before segueing smoothly to a shocking and promising new antagonist. The script is razor-sharp, but the art succeeds a little too well at nasty-ing up this title's usually-clean looks. It's hardly a mortal sin, though. On balance, this latest issue provides exactly the shot of compelling conflict that this title needed. Read Full Review
While this issue is uneven at parts, it largely culminates in a generally-fun read. Read Full Review
Slott and Zub have drawn us along a narrative path that opened Tony Stark up, as a character, to his core. After that, they had Tony question his identity, which made readers question their understanding of who Iron Man was or even could be. Here in this 15th issue of Tony Stark: Iron Man, we are taken to one of the absolute limits of Tony's understanding of his own world. Now that he's reached this plateau, they drop Ultron (with a suspiciously Hank Pym looking half face) on Tony to challenge his newly acquired self-awareness. Edgar Delgado is on the visuals for issue #15 and really adds dimension to the panels. The art team dug deep into a shaded visual style that lent depth and realism to the court scenes and dramatic urgency to the fight panels. Given Tony Stark's death in the MCU, this run on Tony Stark: Iron Man proves that the character has a lot of life left in the comics. Read Full Review
A really great issue. Although some of the AI stuff is still a little off, I can accept that we've moved firmly into science fiction.
I'd been getting pretty sick of the book continually re-treading underdeveloped ideas about humanity and A.I., but this issue meaningfully moved those ideas forward. Suddenly I'm looking forward to a full arc exploring them (though I do hope that by the end of it Tony has come to a conclusion that he feels secure in and can move beyond). I didn't love the art, which was fine but too much of a dramatic departure from the rest of the series for me.
Very good issue after a lot of numbers.
"The master is well aware of this situation and he has it all under control."
Alas, poor robots.
Interesting developments on the title's plot, characters, and philosophy, which is exactly what they needed. Yeesh, the art, though. Fun to read; not at all fun to look at.
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