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Ironman: Believe (2013)

by Kieron Gillen(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1846535301 (ISBN13: 9781846535307)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Panini

series

Iron Man (Marvel NOW!)

review 1: Is it just me, or does Iron Man really only work in a team setting? Seriously, I like him in the Avengers, and it's fun to read him in New Avengers, but he just doesn't have what it takes to fly solo. Tony Stark has an extreme personality, and you need people to bounce that off of, or he will just become boring. Most of this book is just Tony on his own, and you know what, it became boring. Tony isn't the only problem with this book though. The writing is really subpar. I think the only other thing I've read by Gillen is some of his X-Men stuff, and I recall I had the same mixed feelings about his work there that I do here. I can't say that is the fault of Kieron Gillen though. His writing style might just not be to my liking. You know what I can comment on though? The ser... moreiously ridiculous and lack of clarity this book has. So this woman wants to have a one night stand with Tony, right? How does she go about it? By acting dumber than she really is. Seriously? WTF? Dude, Tony Stark is a really simple guy when it comes to things like this. If she would just walk up to him and say, "I'm really in the mood and I want you to take me home and fuck me", he would do it. Because that is the kind of guy Tony is. Why does she need to act dumb to get his attention? It just doesn't make any sense. Tony lives his life with a serious death wish. He isn't going to be turned on by some dim witted bimbo. He's going to respond to someone who is direct and challenges him. This was just a serious case of a male ego driven scene.Can someone please tell me who is narrating the second issue of this collection? At first I thought it was Tony, since it's his title, but that makes no sense if you read it. So then I thought it was the generic evil business guy. Nope, wrong again. So it must be this lady they call Merlin? No, cause in this scene she is clearly the one telling the story and the caption box is different. Oh, it was one of the people in the suits? Well I'm glad you told us that at the very fucking end. It's a good thing it didn't seriously mess up my enjoyment of the issue trying to figure out who the fuck was talking the whole time. So in the third issue we see a big problem with Iron Man: his weak ass rouge's gallery. It's not just in concept either, but in actual power level. Tony's got on a suit that's only 10 percent as strong as his usual and he still takes two of the three guys out with no problem. Where is the threat there? He could have beat those guys with a can of mace and a give em hell attitude. And when Tony mentions two pervious patients who died from the extremis virus, he says it like we are supposed to know what he is talking about, but I had no clue. Was that from a different issue? Or did it just get thrown in there? How about a little editor's note saying, "See issue..." or do they just except that you will just look it up on Wikipedia?Greg Land's art is not good. It lacks any life what so ever. The thing about drawing is that it takes place on a flat surface. The artist has to trick your eyes into believing they are looking at a three dimensional object. Greg Land can't do that. I suspect that his process is just to find a good image in Magazines or run a Google Image search to find what he wants, and then traces it onto the art board. This just makes for lifeless looking cardboard cut out faces and poses. There are some things I did like. The first page narration is good. Tony talking about how he believes in the future was a really good and strong way to let a reader know who he was and what he's about from the very beginning. The designs for the various armors was also cool. That's actually one of the stronger points of Iron Man for me. All the different suits he can wear. And Gillen does a nice job of explaining why he has those different suits, since a tool designed to do a specific job will do it better than a generic tool designed for all around performance. The end of the book gave me a slight hope that things might be better in a future volume, with Tony going off into space. But there is now way I will read anymore of this unless I can get it for free.
review 2: The introductory arc of Gillen's run in Iron Man is direct sequel to Warren Ellis' seminal Extremis story-line. It's Tony Stark's worst nightmare, the science that made him the best Iron Man he could in the hands of the weapon merchants A.I.M.I actually appreciated this approach by Gillen because Exremis is much more familiar to me than Matt Fraction's Iron Man, whose work on the character preceded Gillen's. It also helped that the Iron Man sequel released this year borrowed heavily from Ellis' story.I enjoyed this trade. It read as good as it was in floppies but the trade has all the variant covers of the first five issues of this title. less

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