[Jason Abbadon]

The direction just seems to have no point- like watching a TV show (like Lost or BSG) that seems to have thing amazing story arc...but it's really just being made up each episode.
And that always leads to disappointment.

It's exactly what happened in Fear Itself and The Order- hell, the Order just..stopped. No ending or follow up or anything. Both were Fracton's "big projects".

In comics, the hero is supposed to overcome adversity and hardship, doing the right thing in spite of the personal consequences and yes, kicking ass- at least kicking metphorical ass like when Tony took down Gyrich in The Initiave.

All this "Tony was a dick to everyone" and is doing pennance crap is SO annoying- it's like a writer coming onto Spider Man and revealing that Peter has always been a hoarder- and is just as out of character.

Tony has always been the guy that, since giving up weapons manufacturing, has done the right thing ethicly- and treated his employees so well that they'd go to bat for him on anything. Even face jailtime or danger.

They can still do amazing stories about Tony's bloodstained past, or the eternal fallout from the Armor Wars or the Initiave, but all this other crap of flashbacks wherein Tony humiliates and belittles his employees is bullshit.
It makes Tony unheroic- and reading a comic about an asshole is not what Iron Man is about.


Charcaterization aside, the new armor seems pitiful in the IM book- we dont know what it can do- if anything- better than the Extremis suit.
Meanwhile, in Avengers and elsewhere we see Tony's armor capable of making shields for himself and others, the armor can modify into various configurations- space, big weapons, etc, and seems much more substantial than the paper thing suit in the IM book.