Reviews

Invincible Iron Man: The Search For Tony Stark by Brian Michael Bendis

remigves's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

judythedreamer's review against another edition

3.0

Bit of a weak ending to Bendis' run and a lot of questions are left to answer. I'm not sure Dan Slott will bother to pick up where Bendis brought the series. A completely different Tony Stark might hit the stands soon.

cluelessnu's review against another edition

1.0

 
This book is a mess.

Spoilers Below

I've been reading comics for years and yes there's a lot of crazy stuff that can happen but this book feels like it's just throwing random and crazy new angles at us to distract us from answering or resolving any of those new angles.

Okay, so Tony Stark's comatose body has gone missing. How do we find him, this would almost be an interesting line to follow, a mystery to be solved. Except nope, we've got to distract with a Stark Expo for a couple of pages and the misogynistic businessman trying to take over Stark Industries again. Will the awesome 3/4ish women do something clever to make sure that doesn't happen?

Nope let's distract you with a Doom as Ironman dealing with a giant group of supervillains. Are we going to figure out his motivations or is he going to help with the search for Tony?

Nope let's go back to Riri suddenly getting her armour taken away, or rather just giving it up. How will she be able to help without it?

Who cares, we're gonna throw sudden Blade in so you don't think about it. What's Blade doing here you ask?

Distraction! Apparently, the only thing the women could think of was a violent assault that solves nothing! How does that help or hinder the story?

What story? Tony isn't missing, he took off himself but everyone is still looking for him. Are we going to explain how he's suddenly better? or even why he was in a coma? Nope! Have a sudden hallucination with Daddy Stark!

How is Riri going to get her armour back? Oh, that's just going to fix itself and we're not going to deal with the fact that technically MIT could claim the armour for itself? Nope, that's distractions over so moving on to more distractions. Here's Blade again! and if that isn't enough let's throw some Leonardo Di Vinci in for good measure.

Tony's still missing? Except nope, he just turns up again by himself to talk to Mum. It's not like he couldn't have done that from the beginning instead of crawling off to do...whatever that was.

Oh, look sudden another living bio parent who is also Hydra turning up.

UGH! I read this series for Riri and in this last book, there was very little Riri and absolutely no satisfying story.

Bendis can write well, it has been demonstrated but he also can write pure drivel that has no direction, plot or reason and this is the perfect example. Man needs to retake a class in basic story structure. 

kyleemaeklein's review against another edition

3.0

Okay, I somewhat enjoyed this, but I was mostly confused. I just, I just have A LOT of questions.

eq_knocks's review against another edition

4.0

I really enjoyed this series and really makes me look forward to the future of Iron Man, Ironheart, and Victor Von Doom!

However, I do not like that they kept everything so wide open for the characters, it would have been nice to see some proper closure to some of the storylines in the series.

Though I can see why Bendis did this but it did take away from the overall enjoyability of this book.

As always, the art was wonderful. The highlight of the book were the pages by Alex Maleev. So striking and made me consume each panel with care and wonder. I look forward to see what he does next!

squidbag's review against another edition

3.0

This is me done with Shellhead for a bit; it ends off with Legacy, which I read and enjoyed. This continues to be good, but the overlapping Doom/Ironheart/Tony in a coma/corporate seizure/Mary Jane/real parents stuff gets a little bogged down after a while. I did like the villains siege of "good" Doom and Ben Grimm gives Victor a piece of his mind bits, but this is the sticking place for my criticism: the rest of the Marvel Universe is a little more interesting than the current stories here save Riri Williams.

kurtpankau's review against another edition

2.0

There's a lot going on here, but it doesn't seem to add up to much. It's mostly a big return to status quo. Riri Williams is spun off as Ironheart. Doctor Doom, who's been running around as Iron Man since Civil War II, needs to have his storying tied off. Tony's parentage gets retconned even more and he is brought out of his coma via overly complicated means all to justify resurrecting [redacted]. There's some great splash panel fights as several different factions come together for a battle-of-the-five-armies brawl, but it doesn't really feel tied to any stakes. Meh.