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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

Plus RDJ is the "comeback kid"- having fallen off the map with drugs and then getting clean, married doing Iron Man and now he's back on top of the world.
He only got half a million for doing the first Iron Man movie and 12 million for IM2 and now FIFTY MILLION for Avengers!!!

Shows that Marvel knows where all that money from the Iron Man movies came from, and it aint Paltrow, baby!!



Matt fracton's done SO much damage to Iron Man...how is it that Iron Man is amazing in The Avengers, New Avengers, Carnage...whatever, except his own damn title?!?

The Tron Suit is a nightmare- and I dont think it's even Rhodey in there based on the Diamond solits.
I think it's another suit with no person, based on Tony's brain patterns- like the Hypervelocity armor.

No its Rhodey. The latest issue shows him in it in the last panel.

To be honest its only the resilient, Fear itself tie in and Demon story arc that has been really slow for me. Everything else fraction did was already happening as a product of Norman Osborn taking over in Dark Avengers in terms of why Tony was broken down. I think maybe its because Tony is kicking ass everywhere else in Marvel books that Matt feels okay spending some time focusing on him being so broken in his solo book. I would definitely like to see him kick some more ass, and very soon. Preferably in some non Tron looking armor. Please no Tron armor, Sal.

Having now read a large portion of his silver age stories and all of his director of shield run the only thing I'm really disappointed in is the recent changes matt made to Mandarin. I agree with you that what they did for him in the Haunted Story line shouldn't have been diluted to what he's being portrayed as now.

I do like the revamped villains and I do like how everything that has been brewing since the 5 nightmares back in 08 is now coming full circle and reaching its boiling point. I also like seeing how Tony can win without needing to be in the suit. He's resourceful as fuck, but even in the haunted story line he at least needed his older armor to beat Mandarin. I feel like fraction is also exploiting his addiction to the suit more than the alcohol. When i see the 22 days sober reminder at the beginning of issues I see the toll being unable to be Iron Man is really taking on him.

Another problem in my perspective is this Iron man run does not read well in single issues but will collected. When i look at fractions run as a whole body of work put together instead of individual shortcomings I appreciate what he's done with Tony and his supporting cast...but DAMMIT they shouldn't have changed Mandarin! Lol.

Btw, thought you might enjoy this. I did at least:

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