PREVIEW: Invincible Iron Man #527

[CBR News]

END OF AN ERA!
• Who lives? Who dies? Who wins? Who loses?
• More importantly: what's next for Tony Stark and Iron Man? You won't believe it until you read it!


Full article here.

[Nitz the Bloody]

Really gonna miss this team on Iron Man :(

[Predabot]

Well, I'm not sure I will exactly miss them, I really do feel as if it's time for 'em to go.

But I will look back at it fondly, to the time when so many of the Avengers ALL HAD BOOKS, and they all rawked. =)

Ms. Marvel, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Spider-man, Wolverine, Iron Fist, Black Widow, they all had some good books when this book first came out.

And Fraction's done some real good stuff.

Looks to be a good, emotional send-off, just like Bru on Cap, the way it should be.

[TonyStark1012]

Really gonna miss this team on Iron Man :(

Same here. It was an amazing run. Looking forward to the new series though,

[Habis]

It seems like Iron Man is becoming sort of the "Big Brother", flooding the world with intelligent tech that sends him information about its surroundings and does what he wants, not what the buyer want...I know Tony is using that for heroic purposes, but, if I were either a citizen or part of a governemnt in MU I would be scared; Tony has often shown willingness to break the law and take control, and I wouldn't like the idea of somebody like him being able to spy everybody in the world and make their computers obey him...I would try to avoid buying Starktech.

By the way, are we going to have a more classical Iron Man at last? He first had Extremis, he lost Extremis to get the Bleeding Edge stuff, he lost the Bleeding Edge stuff to get Swarm...and still he almost always does the same stuff (fly and shot repulsor rays) and shows the same relative strength when fighting guys like Thor or Hulk or Namor of Silver Surfer. I liked him more as a regular guy with a high tech armor.

[Nitz the Bloody]

It seems like Iron Man is becoming sort of the "Big Brother", flooding the world with intelligent tech that sends him information about its surroundings and does what he wants, not what the buyer want...I know Tony is using that for heroic purposes, but, if I were either a citizen or part of a governemnt in MU I would be scared; Tony has often shown willingness to break the law and take control, and I wouldn't like the idea of somebody like him being able to spy everybody in the world and make their computers obey him...I would try to avoid buying Starktech.

Presumably he's doing this to prevent a situation like Armor Wars, where the tech was on the loose much longer than he'd known, and he had to act desperately in order to contain the bloodshed. It seems like a good compromise between not letting the world have his inventions (thus holding humanity's technological and moral progress back) and allowing them to repeatedly fall into the wrong hands and kill civilians.

By the way, are we going to have a more classical Iron Man at last? He first had Extremis, he lost Extremis to get the Bleeding Edge stuff, he lost the Bleeding Edge stuff to get Swarm...and still he almost always does the same stuff (fly and shot repulsor rays) and shows the same relative strength when fighting guys like Thor or Hulk or Namor of Silver Surfer. I liked him more as a regular guy with a high tech armor.

Just being a guy in a suit of high tech armor gets increasingly less high tech not just as the real-world catches up, but as the science fiction genre advances. The cyberpunk genre has now existed for decades, and with it, various transhumanistic concepts such as upgrading the nervous system for faster responses, hooking one's body directly into machines, and uploading one's entire brain as computer data. By those standards, a man with a bulky superhuman prosthesis looks like an Iron Tortoise.

[Habis]

Presumably he's doing this to prevent a situation like Armor Wars, where the tech was on the loose much longer than he'd known, and he had to act desperately in order to contain the bloodshed. It seems like a good compromise between not letting the world have his inventions (thus holding humanity's technological and moral progress back) and allowing them to repeatedly fall into the wrong hands and kill civilians.

I dunno...in real life I don't like that microsoft leaves backdoors in windows and internet explorer just in case they need to stealthy enter our computers (for example, because the CIA asks them to do so) or that Google keeps banks of data with all our movements in the Net...what Tony does goes even further. What if he goes bad? what if somebody like Mandarin compromise his technology again?

Tony gave Spidey a suit that secretly recorded information about his powers, and used that information to counter his danger sense, injected nanomachines into Hulka to remove her powers when she got angry at him (because he had thrown Hulk to space), hacked all the computers in the world and brainwashed all the people of the world to hide his secret identity, used nanomachines to enslave supervillains and sent them to fight heroes...I wouldn't want that kind of guy to have any amount of control over me and my life.

Just being a guy in a suit of high tech armor gets increasingly less high tech not just as the real-world catches up, but as the science fiction genre advances. The cyberpunk genre has now existed for decades, and with it, various transhumanistic concepts such as upgrading the nervous system for faster responses, hooking one's body directly into machines, and uploading one's entire brain as computer data. By those standards, a man with a bulky superhuman prosthesis looks like an Iron Tortoise.

But the Extremis and/or Bleeding Edge gave him super-intelligence, super-quick reflexes, super-endurance, a healing factor, a super-efficient metabolism and organs, and the ability to sprout guns and armor from his body...he's no longer a scientist, or even a cyborg, he is closer to Warlock or Apocalypse; the thing I liked about him is that he was a normal human who used technology.

He has no longer Extremis or Bleeding Edge within him, but he still can control the Swarm with his mind, and the cloud of nanobots can destroy everything and probably reassemble molecules...