Iron Man #14

Iron Man #14 the Secret Origin of Tony Stark.  The God killer story actually turned out to be interesting.  Having Recorder 451, Deaths Head and Iron Man made for some interesting story telling.  There was also some really well written dialog.  Unfortunately after the good stuff the comic ends in a very typical and horribly corny cliffhanger.  Now if Tony cannot find a fix to the problem another world full of people will be destroyed, that world? Earth.

Iron Man #13 The Secret Origin of Tony Stark

Iron Man #13 Still in the Secret Origin of Tony Stark Storyline.  In this issue we the readers finally get to see Recorder 451’s actual plan.  Recorder found a giant robot suit that was used in the past to kill members of the Eternals.  Recorder went through all this planning and such with humans and Tony Stark.  Tony Stark is to be the compliant pilot under Recorder 451’s control.  This killer of gods will then be used to defend Earth and allow the people of Earth to continue unmolested by other races in the Galaxy.  This defense will lead to an Earth led empire and a period of peace in the Galaxy according to Recorder.  Now this would normally be a rather boring wordy comic except we have a return of Deaths’ Head.  I have to say having Deaths’ Head in the comic has really improved the action, I like him.  The comic ends on a rather large cliff hanger.  I liked this issue.

Iron Man #11

Iron Man #11 – the Secret Origin of Tony Stark Part 2.  In this issue we get more flash back to Howard Stark and his wife deciding to let Recorder 451 fix their child so it will not die.  But more than that Recorder 451 wants to improve their child in order to make a savior for mankind.  Recorder fears that the other races / empires in the galaxy will soon begin to fear humanity and in a few short years attack and destroy all life on Earth.  In order to prevent this extermination Recorder 451 wants the Stark child to be that super genius we have come to know and love – Tony Stark.  This is another well written and paced story giving us the Secret Origin of Tony Stark.  I am entertained.

Iron Man #10 Secret Origin of Tony Stark

Iron Man #10 – The Secret Origin of Tony Stark Part 1 – wait last issue was labeled as part of the Secret Origin storyline.  Anyway, we do not get to see everything that Howard Stark and Recorder 451 said in their little movie.  Tony aka Iron Man does not believe it but we get a flashback where Recorder tells more of the story.  But in reality what we get is a caper job where Howard Stark plots with an alien and some human friends to steal Recorder  451 from other aliens living in Las Vegas.  The crew includes Jimmy Woo, Dum Dum Dugan and Thunderbolt Ross.  They manage to steal Recorder and make their getaway.  It all ends with another to be continued moment in the future.  This was a rather amusing and entertaining story.  I am interested to see what happens next.

Iron Man #9 The Secret Origin of Tony Stark!

Iron Man #9 was awesome the story was so good I will even forgive the writers for stealing the intro tag from the Hawkeye Comic Book.  Apparently this comic book is the story of Tony Stark (IE Iron Man) and what he does when he is on a break from the Guardians of the Galaxy; Star Lord even makes a guest appearance at the beginning of the story.  Tony seeks out and finds Deaths Head and hires him to hunt down Recorder 451.  Deaths Head has some really great lines and banter with Iron Man.  They manage to track down 451 and Deaths Head turns Tony over to recorder 451.  Not so much betraying Iron Man as Recorder had paid first and more than Tony had promised.  This is where it gets weird as Recorder 451 shows Tony Stark a film (Yes a film) recording of Tony’s father much like from the movies and Tony’s father is apologizing and saying how much he loves Tony and then we see Tony’s father and Recorder 451 sharing the same time and space on film.  I will be very disappointed if this is all just some mind washing on the Recorders part.  But it did deliver on the tag line “The Secret Origin of Tony Stark”.

Iron Man #8!

Iron Man #8 was good and entertaining.  Tony Stark fights or at least runs from Deaths Head for a while killing time.  Eventually Recorder 451 activates the Iron Man armor and it goes to rescue Tony Stark – the P.E.P.P.E.R. operating system continues to be entertaining but P.E.P.P.E.R. is no Jarvis.  Tony is able to rearm and fight off his pursers.  While he is off fighting the Eternals show up and begin destroying the Voldi world space station.  At this point Recorder 451 confesses that this was all his fault and apologizes for misleading Tony and destroying the Voldi.  Tony returns to see the devastation and swears that he will track down Recorder 451 and make it pay.  There is no mention if Deaths Head survives or not.  This is the disappointing end to the Godkiller story arc.

Iron Man #7!!!

Iron Man #7 was actually really good.  We get the trail of Tony Stark the God Killer which with a little outside help from Rigelian Recorder 451 or in this case Tony’s Lawyer.  Recorder 451 looks a lot like Machine Man.  Anyway the legal advice given to Tony Stark is to request trail by combat – this combat is without weapons or the Iron Man armor.  Tony Stark has experience fighting without any weapons or armor and the aliens not having much experience fighting wins bout after bout winning his innocence against many charges.   The most amusing charge Tony is found innocent of is Hubris in the first degree.  In order to get to a suspenseful cliffhanger to end this issue we have Iron Man set to fight the robotic bounty Hunter Death’s Head.