[Jason Abbadon]

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Originally Posted by bmorr

what dont you like about invincible iron man?

There's no payofff- Tony runs, feels guilty, hides, wipes his brain, feels guilty, loses EVERY FIGHT to super losers like Doc Ock and generally acts defeated in every possible way.

Seriously, WTF?!?!? I own issues 1-300 and the Kanufs run and now the Fracton run and I'll tell you as someone that's been an Iron Man fan for 25 years, Fracton has no idea who Tony Stark is.

And far less idea who James Rhodes is!
Hot on the heels of Greg Pak's awesome War Machine series, where Jim was on one long suicide run to do what's right and bring justice to untouchable bastards and even outsmarted Norman Osborn...Fracton has Rhodey afraid to go out in the War Machine armor and needing a pep talk from Tony?!?

NO. just...no.

These characters are unrecognizable from every one of their prior appearances ever.

Hell, in Avengers, Iron Man is depicted very well- Bendis has a great handle on the character and how he interacts with others- see the issues with the Illumaniti and you'll say "that's Iron Man! Someone that could walk awy from being GOD if it was the right thing....but Fracton's depiction is anemic. It's like Fractn decided to make an exact oposite of everything "Tony" that Robery Downey Jr. brings to the movie depiction.

The art does not help either- Larocca is great for the armor shots but his useing photo reference of that guy from Lost for Tony is pretty old.
No clue who he referenced for his Rhodey- maybe he Googled "candyass" and used whatever popped up. He reuses this sorta confused look for Tony so often that it reads like he has brain damage from the last storyline. Never does he look angey...or even confident, in any way.

Then there's the story wherein we get ENTIRE ISSUES of Tony fundraising, Powerpoint presentation meetings, the secret lives of Tony's new employees...jesus.

BUT WORST OF ALL: they introduce an all-new armor and for the first time in Iron Man's history, they dont explain why it's supposedly better than the last suit- it's not that it's a mystery Fracton is waiting to reveal- according to interviews, he has not decided what all it can do yet.

Which is like 50's Batman having a can of Bat Shark Repellant only in Tony's case, in reverse- the suit seems to suck badly- losers that he'd laugh off in armor from a deacde ago are now kicking his ass for issues on end.
Detroit Steel? really? REALLY?!?! What is that joke compared to say, Firepower?

Nothing.

I'd bet real money that fracton never read any of those issues anyway- not if he's got Doc Ock beating Tony...at anything.

So if I want Iron Man, Bendis is my only hope....for what that's worth these days.