Invincible Iron Man

Invincible Iron Man (2015) (Collected Editions) #1-3

by Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez (Illustrator), Mike Deodato Jr. (Illustrator)

One of the most popular super heroes in the world soars to fresh heights - and devastating lows! Tony Stark has a new armor, a new supporting cast and a new purpose! But his life is just as surprising and eventful as ever - beginning with the return of one of his biggest nemeses, and the quest to find his biological parents! Tony must pursue Madame Masque as her actions threaten to rip all of reality apart, then delve deep into his international organization to find out what's rotten in the House of Stark. But when tragedy sets the Marvel Universe spiraling into conflict, Tony will face an emotional confrontation with some of his closest and dearest friends! What will Civil War II mean for the future of Iron Man?
COLLECTING: INVINCIBLE IRON MAN (2015) 1-14

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels

328 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2018

About the author

A comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For over eight years Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts.

Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.

Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce.

Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly.

Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six.

Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion.

He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.

Reviews

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit of a let down.

I feel like if they ever do an omnibus of all of Bendis Iron Man (including Civil War II cause it’s unfortunately part of the run?), it’d probably be pretty good.

But as a volume, this isn’t. It starts well and sets some stuff up, but there’s little pay off by the end. Instead we get the ties to Civil War II (which I haven’t read). There is some good character stuff with Tony when he’s dealing with Rhodeys death, but other than that...

Along with the stuff with Doctor Doom. Where is it actually heading? (Into Infamous Iron Man I know, which goes back to my point that maybe we’ll get a good Bendis Iron Man omni one day)

Also, why is Mary Jane Watson in this? Is it because she wasn’t doing much in Spider-man?

And Deodato is a better artist than what’s in here.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Man this was also great!! We have Madame Masque is globe trotting, stealing mystic artifacts from several locations. Tony gets the intel and goes after her to see what she’s up to. Upon confronting her, he see she has all these powers she never had. What’s up with that? Also, Victor shows up with no more facial scars and trying to be good and helpful. Wonder what’s up with that. They end up teaming up to take on this new Madame Masque. Later, Tony has Rhodes investigating a Stark building in Japan I think, the Masque also broke into but he’s not sure what she took. Rhodes best caught up fought some tech based ninjas. Tony goes for the rescue and things get interesting. This ended up being an awesome story with some great art. I’ve been having a blast so far moving through Bendis’s Iron Man run.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I... actually really liked this. I'm shocked. The other Iron Man graphic novels I've read have always butchered the character for me. I love who he is in the MCU, but when I got into reading comics, I was disappointed to find that my lovable, always-trying-to-do-better jerk, was actually... JUST a jerk in the source material. But this story--complete with a "good Doctor Doom," team-ups that included Doctor Strange (awesome facial hair bros!), undercover and intrigue, tragedy, and much, much more!--actually had me loving the character again. This is the Tony I first met: The one that is flawed, but knows it and is always trying to move forward. The action was great, the characterization, on point, and the emotion, downright punch-in-the-gut. (Speaking specifically here about Tony trying to deal with Rhodey's death... *insert sad face*) Plus this story also introduced Riri, whose origin I hadn't read. PLUS... lots of Mary Jane Watson! (I love her helping Tony and not taking any of his crap.) All in all.. there's very little I can complain about here. Thank you Brian Michael Bendis for restoring my faith in Iron Man's character!

[Jacob · Rating 2 out of 5]

This run is not great, and none of the story arcs are finished up. The first one with Madame Masque leads to a second arc with digital ninjas and neither gets closure before the end of the run. Doctor Doom shows up which is cool but none of that goes anywhere either (but I know it's just setting up Infamous Iron Man). The last few issues have some good character moments for Tony but it doesn't make up for the first 10ish issues that go all over the place and then don't wrap up. This is a rare miss for Bendis. The art is great though, and Tony has some great moments. Just frustrating to start stories to not finish them.

[Mohamed Ahmed · Rating 4 out of 5]

I Very much enjoyed this, However the last 3 issues i Was at a loss of whats going on because it is a tie-in to Civil war ii which i haven't read and yet it has some spoilers, also there was some questions that left not answered ( whether it will be answered in civil war ii or the following International Iron man is yet to be seen )
I Forget to mention that the Art is Superb, personally I Liked Deodato More, But Still Marquez Was Quite Good too.

[Lou · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very Bad overall although issue 1-5 slightly better

I don't appreciate a sudden change of artiest from issue 6, especially such a drastic one. The new artist totally ruined Amara Perera, whose scene on the rooftop with Tony is one of few good ones of the book. Together with inability of character development, she becomes a dark, ugly figure that you hardly tell who is she.

Issue 6-14 just a prologue for civil war 2, very boring storyline in my opinion.

[Adora · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this was okay. It's far from my favorite Tony characterization, and definitely seemed heavily influenced by the movies (and I like that Tony! But he's vastly different from the Tony in the comics, and should remain that way). This collides with Civil War II in the later issues, which is an event that I hate, but it was handled well here. There were some great Rhodey and Tony friendship moments, and it also introduces Riri Williams/Ironheart.

[Martin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was BAD.

I love Iron Man and I generally like Bendis (and sometimes love him a lot), but this was bad. Iron Man looks and sounds like he's 23. Such a step down for the character...

I'll read the companion series that's drawn by Alex Maleev and I really hope it'll be better.

[Adsun22 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Doskonały humor, dobrze oddany charakter Tony'ego, zabawny banter między nim a Rhodeyem i innymi postaciami z uniwersum w gościnnych występach, obiecujący debiut Riri, ale sam główny wątek średni, a te tie-iny do Civil War męczące.

[Ming · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this one. The Civil War II chapters do come out of nowhere, so thankfully I've already read that, and I must say, I enjoyed these more than the actual crossover, since they're more character-focused.

[Anthony Rizzie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this and am excited to continue with his run! I can see why some may not love it, but I have to say that compared to Gillen, this was such a crazy different and coherent run with plans. Gillen was a slog to read at times, but this kept me turning pages!

[Omnibuster · Rating 3 out of 5]

An incomplete story that serves as a lead in to Civil War II and weaves with Captain Marvel’s run and requires some understanding of Peter Parker’s life and the All New Avengers.

[Gunnar Long · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wasn't expecting much from Invincible Iron Man. I read the first arc back when it was new and stopped after turns out the villain was simply being controlled by a demon. Then knowing it lead into Civil War II, an event I didn't enjoy, turned me off even more.
However, picking it back up in this hardcover complete edition, I found something very different. While the early issues have problems with world building and some wasted set ups (The demon for example), was a fun light heated adventure. Then I was honestly shocked by the end. Seeing Tony deal with the events pre Civil War II, was so effective and tear jerking. Some scenes in those last issues hit me hard.
Mixing with the amazing out of the world art, Invincible Iron Man is really good. I'm even strongly wanting to revisit Civil War II to truly see what I was missing.

[Liz.Loki · Rating 1 out of 5]

BORING.

I read it because in this comic is introduced Riri Williams + I had never read an Iron Man comic before now, I love Tony and wanted to try but sadly I didn't like it.