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Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 8: Unfixable (2011)

by Matt Fraction(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Marvel

series

The Invincible Iron Man

review 1: This is one of those mish-mash volumes, collecting a few shorter stories that couldn't merit a book of their own. Overall, the lengthy Fraction/LaRocca run on INVINCIBLE IRON MAN was nothing short of phenomenal, but the lead story collected here - "Unfixable" - is mainly an interlude piece before diving into the "Fear Itself" crossover, and does little to further the main multi-year arc of Tony Stark's redemption and repurposing. It does however offer an interesting take on Doctor Octopus as a creepy little toad with a severe case of scientist penis envy toward Stark. The IRON MAN/THOR and RESCUE one-shots that round out the volume are exactly what they're intended to be, filler fluff and nothing more. If you're a completist, wait for the Omnibus collection and read the... morese as part of their greater whole.
review 2: Starts off with exactly the kind of smart writing I keep coming back to Fraction for. Great conflict set-up btw Doc Ock and Tony Stark, and I was really intrigued how well Fraction kept thwarting Stark from his 'easy answers'. Not sure I'm a fan of how it ended, but if this becomes the seed for future plotlines then I'm all in. Grubby, flawed and broken actors in comics: far too interesting not to read.The one thing that distracted me from fully enjoying the story was Larocca's art. He's very talented in almost everything he commits tithe page, save one thing: Tony Stark's lips. He looks like a teenage girl with heavy lip gloss, in every single scene. That *has* to be a deliberate choice but I don't know why.FCBD issue was fun and a good story for attracting newbies to comics. Seems more like filler here, but I'm getting used to Marvel and DC using whatever they can to bulk up the trades.The tag-along issue 1 of Rescue (Pepper Potts as iron maid) was passable - solid writing, decent art - but no more remarkable than any of a hundred standard-issue issue 1's. less

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