In an effort to elevate the comic book version of Iron Man to the atmospheric heights of Robert Downey Jr.’s movie Iron Man, Marvel Comics bet big on the 2015 relaunch of their Invincible Iron Man series. That run is set to end in May, and looking back on everything that writer Brian Michael Bendis and his collaborators brought to the character, I’ve come to the conclusion that this Iron Man run was great… for everyone but Iron Man.
Warning: full spoilers below!
Over the years since the success of the first Iron Man movie in 2008, comic book Tony Stark has been written to be more cocky and quippy and he was put back in his traditional style of armor, all to make him more like the MCU version, but it didn’t quite do the trick. That’s why Marvel pulled out the big guns: their most prolific writer in Bendis and superstar artist David Marquez. And at first, it worked. The series got off to a great start with its MCU-inspired Tony Stark and was at the top of the sales charts. But after a couple story arcs, it all went off the rails.
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