Art: Salvador Larroca
Everytime I read Fraction's "Invinvible Iron Man" I feel like I'm watching a TV drama. And just like every drama shows out there, there's something big about to bust out eventually, usually towards the end.
For almost a year now, "Invincible Iron Man" has been about rebuilding Tony Stark. The last arc was about "resurrecting" Tony Stark back to life, and this arc is about rebuilding Stark Industries to Stark Resilient.
Pepper Potts has fully recovered and finally back into her Rescue armor, with her armor getting an upgrade as well. Stark and his crew find a place where Stark Resilient could settle, and Rhodey talks with General Babbage to take hold of War Machine and monitor Hammer Industries. But Gen. Babbage rejects Rhodey's proposal and insults him back.
Meanwhile, the Hammers are also slowly building up their Detroit Steel to compete with Stark. They recruited a bunch of geeks who unknowingly control real missiles through their phones that will aid Detroit Steel.
The good thing about Fraction's writing is the characterization and development of characters. His pace lets Fraction give the main and supporting characters proper development. Furthermore, instead of giving us the full capabilities of Stark's new armor, Fraction is giving little hints as to what a "rebooted" Stark is capable of.
On the other hand, it's been a while since we saw some action in this book. And truthfully, it gets really boring at times.
Larroca's art has this realistic feel to it. There's even one panel of Gen. Babbage where he actually looks like a former President of the United States. Larroca's faces are very uniques from each other and their expressions are really well done.
It would probably take a while before we could see some Iron Man action, but at least we get some good characterization and story going on.
Rating: 3.5/5
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