CBR: "Invincible Iron Man's" Stark Future

[CBR News]

Once Tony Stark finishes a deadly game of wits with Doctor Octopus, he'll become embroiled in "Fear Itself." We spoke with "Invincible Iron Man" editor Alejandro Arbona about the future of Marvel's brilliant playboy.


Full article here (http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=31956).

[Monty_Cristo]

i love Iron Man. but i hate Fear Itself!!!

[IronStarks]

Even though im reading Fear Itself, im hoping that the tie-in can be read with out reading the main series.

[mc_griddles]

Even though im reading Fear Itself, im hoping that the tie-in can be read with out reading the main series.

Pretty sure its self contained, Tony is featured in Fear Itself but he's having his own problems somewhere else.

[DownInAHole]

I'm not sure if Matt Fraction and/or Alejandro Arbona will ever read this but I dropped Iron Man with issue 500 and I'd like them to know why. I wasn't happy with the length of the arcs, starting with World's Most Wanted it felt like very little happened in each issue and the arcs felt stretched and padded much more than they should have been. Once the book went up to $3.99 that was all the reason I needed to drop it. For the monthly entertainment I got from it there was no way I could justify that price. I hope that the creative will consider giving readers more value by packing more story into each issue. If the book drops back to $2.99 I will probably give it another try.

[marvell2100]

Looking forward to the arcs after Fear Itself. Cant wait to see Ezekial, the Mandarin and the Hammer girls. Also Spymaster. Now if they could find a way to bring Brand and Roxxon back into the mis, that would be cool as well. I also think that Tony should be going up against AIM. They really haven't clashed that often if any. I know that Tony and Steve went up against M.O.D.O.K. in one of the annuals awhile back but there shouls have been more stories with Tony going up against AIM or them trying to steal some of his tech.

[tigerkaya]

Looking forward to the arcs after Fear Itself. Cant wait to see Ezekial, the Mandarin and the Hammer girls. Also Spymaster. Now if they could find a way to bring Brand and Roxxon back into the mis, that would be cool as well. I also think that Tony should be going up against AIM. They really haven't clashed that often if any. I know that Tony and Steve went up against M.O.D.O.K. in one of the annuals awhile back but there shouls have been more stories with Tony going up against AIM or them trying to steal some of his tech.

If you want more AIM, check out FF.

[Filthy Mutie]

No disrespect to Mr. Arbona, but it's too bad Matt Fraction doesn't come to CBR anymore.

[marvell2100]

If you want more AIM, check out FF.

I get FF too. :smile:

[Lou7]

I'm not sure if Matt Fraction and/or Alejandro Arbona will ever read this but I dropped Iron Man with issue 500 and I'd like them to know why. I wasn't happy with the length of the arcs, starting with World's Most Wanted it felt like very little happened in each issue and the arcs felt stretched and padded much more than they should have been. Once the book went up to $3.99 that was all the reason I needed to drop it. For the monthly entertainment I got from it there was no way I could justify that price. I hope that the creative will consider giving readers more value by packing more story into each issue. If the book drops back to $2.99 I will probably give it another try.


I have to agree somewhat.I had been getting Iron Man since issue # 1, when Matt & Sal first started. Sometimes it did seem that not much happened, but other times it was really a fun read,so it was worth the money.But actually when the book went up to $3.99 :mad:, I had to drop it .
I will gladly pick it up again if Marvel lowers the price back to $2.99:smile:
But I'm sure that Alejandro will never read these comments, and even if he does, there's nothing that he can do about pricing :frown:

[TonyStark1012]

Really cool interview. I like where they're headed with Tony. I can't wait for the Fear Itself tie ins and the next issue of Fear Itself. Also the future sounds pretty damn dangerous for Tony. The Mandarin, Eziekel Stane, The Hammer Girls and Spymaster!?!?! Tony is definitely going to have his hands full.

[CKdoubleU]

I'm enjoying this series, but I am extremely annoyed at Sal's depiction of Tony. I usually like his work, but patterning Tony Stark after actor Josh Holloway is just wrong.

[xheight]

I'm enjoying this series, but I am extremely annoyed at Sal's depiction of Tony. I usually like his work, but patterning Tony Stark after actor Josh Holloway is just wrong.

LOL - yes, so very wrong for the very reasons that the book gets other things wrong in that it is just making stuff up based on the movie not the longer history of the comic. Josh Holloway as Howard Hughes might even work if it weren't for the fact that that's not the tone we get from the panels. What we get is lifted from Lost as the garrulous overlap with Sawyer to the movie-Tony.

example--
Both. One of Tony's key flaws is his arrogance, and in his arrogance he never thought that a scientist he saw as being beneath him could...
Huh? Not really I mean we hear this from non-fans or new fans or even CW haters but while Tony often thinks he can top any inventor as a matter of challenge where is this in evidence as a flaw before? Only instance I can think of is that during Armor War when he punked a character he thought had his tech and really didn't. This is however contextualized as a fevered fight that builds not his M.O.

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Steve Rogers embodies strategy, cunning and an ideal of leadership that inspires everyone he commands.

wrong - until at least now Steve has been a master of tactics not strategy and really where except recent Brubaker pwnage has a brick-brain boyscout like steve been 'cunning' that was Tony's game since the sixties gaming commies, corporate rivals and supervillians in every other story.

[vitruvian]

Interesting interview. All the discussion about Tony as a scientist and technologist being kind of lost dealing with an ancient mystical and mythical threat like the Serpent has me wondering how much involvement they'll allow either Dr. Strange or Hank Pym to have in the whole event. After all, Strange's magical tradition goes waaaaaay back to well before the current Asgardians were ever worshipped, and Hank knows the frequency for Asgardian magic, or at least old Loki's version of it.