The Invincible Iron Man Omnibus, Volume 1
Iron Man 2.0 is here - and Tony Stark isn't the one who made him! Ezekiel Stane is on the scene and fixated on avenging the death of his father, Obadiah. Every bit as ruthless and ten times as smart, the younger Stane is all five of Stark's nightmares rolled into one - and his perversion of...
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Iron Man 2.0 is here - and Tony Stark isn't the one who made him! Ezekiel Stane is on the scene and fixated on avenging the death of his father, Obadiah. Every bit as ruthless and ten times as smart, the younger Stane is all five of Stark's nightmares rolled into one - and his perversion of Stark's technology into a weapon capable of slaying hundreds of innocents at a time starts the clock ticking on a chess game Iron Man must win! Then, Tony goes on the run from Norman Osborn! Osborn now has all the power he ever wanted minus the most important ingredient, the registration database, which is stored in the only place Stark could guarantee its safe keeping - inside his Extremis-enhanced brain. Collects Invincible Iron Man #1-19.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780785142959 (0785142959)
Publish date: March 3rd 2010
Publisher: Marvel
Pages no: 344
Edition language: English
Series: The Invincible Iron Man (#1)
This collection gets four stars overall, even though the second storyline isn't as good as the first. There's a lot that's done very well.A passing knowledge of the Civil War and Secret Invasion storylines, at least, would be really helpful here, and it's set at the beginning of Dark Reign. Unfortun...
A lot of what I loved about this collection is echoed from the first omnibus. Fraction's Tony Stark has to deal with one thing after the other and maybe it's gritty, intense, or another plethora of similar adjectives, but I can see where that works. Like Tony's alluded to, he has to confront head-on...
I'm initially typing this on my phone, so I hope to flesh it out a bit at home. That said, though, just a heads up to those looking to read this: you definitely will want to read Civil War and Secret Invasion first. The volumes included in the omnibus are the fabulous Five Nightmares (which sets up ...