Gear up for the hottest movie event of 2010 Superstar creators Peter David (Dark Tower) and Sean Chen (Mighty Avengers) bring the blockbuster Iron Man to comics...just in time for Iron Man 2 Tony Stark is a billionaire weapons maker...who's given a taste of his own medicine. When he's wounded and taken prisoner in the Middle East and forced to build a missile for insurgents, Tony creates a suit of armor to keep him alive and blast his way out. Now Tony sees the folly of his greed, and sets out to right wrongs as the armored avenger...Iron Man Collects Iron Man Movie Adaptation, Iron Man: Fast Friends #1-2, Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files #1-2, and Iron Manual III.
Peter Allen David, often abbreviated PAD, was an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films, and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, SpyBoy, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, Captain Marvel, and X-Factor. His Star Trek work included comic books and novels such as the New Frontier book series. His other novels included film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series. His television work includes series such as Babylon 5, Young Justice, Ben 10: Alien Force and Nickelodeon's Space Cases, which he co-created with Bill Mumy. David often jokingly described his occupation as "Writer of Stuff", and he was noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real-world issues with humor and references to popular culture, as well as elements of metafiction and self-reference. David earned multiple awards for his work, including a 1992 Eisner Award, a 1993 Wizard Fan Award, a 1996 Haxtur Award, a 2007 Julie Award and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award.
This was my first foray into comic books. I can say that I enjoyed this collection of comics, particularly the new Coulson story, but I can't imagine enjoying the first part (the majority) if I wasn't already familiar with the movie. It is such a cursory presentation of the Iron Man movie story that it really doesn't stand alone, but was still interesting as a companion comic. Interestingly, I found I enjoyed the Marvel Cinematic Universe stories far more than the reprinted comic about Iron Monger at the end.
A fun novelization (comicization?) of the first Iron Man movie and including a classic Iron Man v Iron Monger arc in the back. My favorite part was the film from Nick Fury and Coulson's POV and some cool behind the scenes photographs from shooting.
A fun collector's piece if you're into the MCU, but not a must-read. (Or if you just want more fun Nick Fury content like I do!)
TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS!! Because the truth is... he is Iron Man. But you really don't need to be a dedicated Marvel or Iron Man fan to understand the plot and enjoy this.
The beginning of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man is the best Marvel character cuz he kicks ass! He is also my favorite Marvel character, along with the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk. In the film, Robert Downey Jr.'s performance as Tony Stark was fantastic. Down to his character, flaws and wit, Downey has managed to essentially bring the comic book superhero to the big screen seamlessly, to the point that the late Stan Lee himself praised him as born to play the character.
Compared to films of now, the special effects are top notch and hold up very well today, with the Iron Man suit being a combination of composite digital and practical effects giving it a very convincing and realistic appearance. This armor design was eventually adopted into the comics.
As mentioned before, it jump-started the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the biggest multimedia franchise of all, and many and all elements that compose its entirety all began in this film. It also popularized the post-credit scene that's now seen in many franchises inspired by it. It also helped revitalize Iron Man as a superhero. Formerly a B-lister and fairly obscure, he has now became one of Marvel Comics' most popular and well-known characters due to Robert Downey's portrayal of him, and I am very pleased.
The cast of characters is very memorable. To get on point, Tony Stark is a wealthy, womanizing, snarky, but selfish billionaire and philanthropist who becomes a selfless, dedicated hero upon escaping from activity using scraps of metal to build himself a suit of armor. Using his technological expertise, he casts away all weaponry and protects his world as Iron Man. Rather than just showing Tony Stark with the Iron Man armor right away, here it's revealed how he goes through a few prototypes before building the iconic armor properly.
Now the plot goes like this: Tony Stark, genius playboy billionaire and CEO of Stark Industries, the N°1 weapon company in the USA, is kidnapped in Afghanistan during a weapons demonstration by the terrorist group The Ten Rings. During the kidnapping, Tony's chest is impaled by bullet shrapnel that threatens to get stuck in his heart and kill him. Tony wakes up to find himself attached to a powerful magnet on his chest powered by a car battery that keeps the shrapnel from reaching his heart.
The terrorists somehow got their hands on Stark Industries weaponry and blackmail Tony into building a Jericho missile for them with the assistance of fellow prisoner Ho Yinseng. Before starting Tony takes a few resources to build a miniature Arc Reactor, a powerful energy source that his father developed which powers Stark Industries. Stark replaces the car battery with the reactor to increase his chance of survival with the shrapnels stuck in his blood vessels.
Rather than building the missile, Tony and Yinsen build a battle armor out of random weapons they plan to use to escape behind the Ten Ring's back. When they find out Yinsen sacrifices himself so Tony can activate the armor, destroy the Stark weaponry, and escape but at the cost of the armor being destroyed after crash landing in the desert. Shortly after his escape, Tony finds a rescue helicopter that was looking for him. Back at USA Tony immediately announces that he's shutting down Stark Industries' weaponry department as terrorists have been buying them illegally.
Obadiah Stane, an old friend of Tony's father and previous CEO tries to talk Tony out of it, but Tony insists that he's doing the right thing and suggests going back to the Arc Reactor project, which had reached a dead-end years ago now that he has the miniature reactor. Tony builds a second mini reactor to replace the current one and begins building a new version of his battle armor using Stark Industries' resources but decides to keep it secret. Stane, Tony's friend Rohdey, and his assistant Pepper Potts try to pressure Tony into going back to the weapons business to no avail. Stane also wanted to mass-produce the miniature Arc Reactor but Tony refuses. At the same time, a secret agency called S.H.I.E.L.D keeps asking how Tony escaped.
Once the battle armor prototype is completed, Tony takes it on a test flight in which he finds out the armor freezes if it flies too high. Tony has his A.I. butler J.A.R.V.I.S fix the prototype's problems before building the full armor and decides to paint it red to make it look cooler. Tony finds out the Ten Rings are still getting Stark weapons and that Stane's the one who's been selling them the weapons to keep the company afloat. Stane also informs Tony that he's planning to convince investors to have Tony fired from Stark Industries so he can be CEO again, and is dangerously close to doing so.
With the battle armor completed, Tony resolves to fight the Ten Rings and destroy any illegal Stark weapon he can find, which gets the army's attention but Tony has Rohdey to keep the secret. Meanwhile, the Ten Rings salvage the first prototype armor and reconstruct it. Stane appears to negotiate mass producing more armors, and it's revealed that he paid the terrorist group to assassinate Tony in the first place. Stane betrays the Ten Rings, kills them, and takes the armor to reverse engineer it to build an improved version for himself.
Pepper catches Tony wearing the battle armor, she reluctantly agrees to help him find out how Stane's been doing business with the Ten Rings and stop him from getting Tony kicked out of the company. Pepper discovers that Stane is building his own armor and calls S.H.I.E.L.D. to have him arrested. Stane steals Tony's mini Arc reactor to use in his "Iron Monger" suit and leaves Tony to die. Fortunately Tony, with Rodhey's help manages to get the first reactor to save his life and power up the battle armor to go after Stane.
Meanwhile, Pepper and S.H.I.E.L.D find Stane's Iron Monger suit, which is much bigger than Tony's own suit. Stane activates the Iron Monger to attack the agents and tries to kill Pepper, but Tony appears and rescues her. Iron Monger and Tony battle in the middle of L.A., but Tony finds his reactor is running out of power and quickly weakening his suit. Tony manages to trick Stane into flying high enough to freeze the Iron Monger, but Stane survives and the two land on Stark Industries' roof.
Tony asks Pepper to overload the Arc Reactor then blow it up while he keeps Iron Monger distracted. Iron Monger overpowers Tony and prepares to kill him, but his targeting system malfunctions and misses several shots. Pepper reluctantly blows up the roof with both Tony and Stane on top of it. The explosion kills Stane and reloads Tony's mini Arc Reactor allowing him to barely survive.
A few days later Tony finds out his battle armor is being named the "Iron Man", which he liked despite the suit technically not being made of iron. Tony has a press conference regarding recent events. S.H.I.E.L.D. wanted to keep his identity secret and had prepared an alibi for him to hide what truly happened, but as soon as he beings the conference he drops his notes and simply says "I am Iron Man".
Later that night Tony runs into S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury. Fury tells Tony that he's not the only superhero out there and reveals the "Avengers Initiative".
There are so many amazing action scenes, such as the armored Tony burning his way through the terrorist captors who attempt to fire at him, as well as Iron Man's awesome superhero landing to save a local town. There's even an Epic final battle between Stark and Obadiah Stane, with pound for pound jabbing and blasting at each other's metallic plates; although the final battle is epic, it is rather unnecessary and it felt like the only reason it was there was because every superhero movie needs to have a big battle in the end. Also, Obadiah Stane (Iron Monger) isn’t the best villain, despite Jeff Bridges providing an excellent performance. He ends up getting a suit of armor randomly offscreen.
As well as popularizing it, the scene after the credits, at the time, excited a lot of fans as it hints at the formation of the Avengers, which eventually culminated in the 2012 film. It also has a surprise appearance by Nick Fury, played by Samuel L. Jackson, whose appearance is an inspiration for the character's design. This has become a staple element of the MCU, as fans will have to wait for the credits to see the post-credit scenes that set up future stories in the franchise.
Also included is a special issue for the then-upcoming sequel and a classic issue of Iron Man vs. Iron Monger.
And what about that epic soundtrack composed by Ramin Djawadi that is timed perfectly with various scenes? It even features an instrumental version of the song "Iron Man" by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, in the credits as well!
If you are entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe, make this your first issue.
Recently started getting back into the MCU again with finishing all the Defender shows (Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Punisher, ect) and Agents of Shield so I said why not check out the MCU’s comic tie ins. With this being my first review of a marvel comic, I wish I could say it blew my mind away and I’m officially forever a marvel comic fan. Sadly, that’s not exactly the case here as the main story, I am Iron Man!, is essentially just a retelling of the movie. I was hoping for more lore that wasn’t revealed in the film, so I guess I wasn’t that impressed. That said, it didn’t have a half bad art direction, but man, some of the story felt rushed. The other comic that comes with this, Security Measures, was far more interesting as it deals with the pov of shield (Agent Coulson and Nick Fury) as Iron Man 1 takes place. It was really engaging, especially since it revealed details not entirely told in the movie. Definitely would recommend this comic just for that issue alone. The 3rd comic issue, Iron Man #200, wasn’t set in the MCU at all, and was just included as an ode to Iron Monger. It was okay I guess, but pretty boring compared to the others. Can’t say it had any interesting art direction or sorry telling but it wasn’t horrible. In all, this comic was passable. I can’t recommend this to people that haven’t watched the movie, but to people that enjoyed the MCU, you might enjoy this.
This comic includes Peter David's wonderful novelization of the "Iron Man" film, which starred Robert Downey Jr. in a role he absolutely owns from the first second he is onscreen; a second story, "Security Measures" which features everyone's favorite S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Phil Coulson; and a 1985 story where Iron Man battles Iron Monger.
Fans of the comic will appreciate how Mr. David inserts "easter eggs" such as naming one of the Stark security guards "Layton" after longtime writer/artist Bob Layton, as well as his use of italics, giving the reader greater insight to the characters' inner thoughts, which add more depth to what we see in the films.
Recommended for comic fans and fans of the film franchise as well.
Quick and gets you familiar with the storyline. I'm all for it.
Tony Stark is kidnapped in the Mideast. He creates a suited machinery to escape. He survives despite having a device in his chest to keep him living. He discovers that his partner at his firm is trying to kill him. He fights back and wins because he realized that war machinery isn't what he wants to be known for
Comic Book created based on the movie.. And there is no denying that it was an awesome movie.. So if you want to read about the cocky Tony Stark.. The same script as the movie.. As a graphic comic book, This is for you.
So, we are slowly working the MCU films with the kids and I somehow missed that Marvel published a tie-in line of comics over the years. This one was ok, I liked seeing the Coulson/Fury side of Iron Man 1 and the classic reprint of Iron Man #200. The adaption of the film was just ok.
A good little collection for casual fans and younger readers. I like that there is an older issue to show readers the style in comics that were popular in the 90s and the source material for movies further and further removed from the comic books that spawned them.
An abridged adaptation of the 2008 movie with some additional SHIELD scenes. Not much else to say. Art is decent and the comic is faithful. Would recommend if you fancy revisiting the movie in comic form with a more Don Cheadle looking Rhodey
This is basically a novellisation of the movie, but condensed, with some characters missing.
However, it does have an "original story with Coulson"... which ends up being "what Fury (and Coulson) do during the movie Iron Man". Quite disappointing.
So in the end the real interest to this book is that it also comes with Iron Man #200, which saw the original fight between our hero and Stane's War Monger... something that was published ages ago so isn't new to this comic.
I guess it's interesting for people who never read comic books and only saw the movie (but even then, I don't see the point because it doesn't bring anything new to it, unlike some novellisations), but to me it was a miss...
I am a great fan of Iron Man but this book was quite disappointing. Converted in a graphic novel with many important points missing. I have observed this happening in movies adapted from novels. The book does give you the idea about the plot for Iron Man movie but it still lack to get your attention
The story is interesting for those who have not seen the movie but I don't think there would be any such person.
A comic interpertation of a movie based on a comic. The book is pretty pointless but an ok read. The final story is interesting because it shows very clearly where the plot for the Iron man movie came from. A good book for fans of the Iron Man movie, but not the comic
El siempre efectivo guionista Peter David traspasa a viñetas la acción del éxito cinematográfico de forma entretenida. Buen gancho para los que (re)descubrieron al personaje en la pantalla grande.