Adam's Adventures: The Invincible Iron Man #14 (Marvel Comics) by Adam P.

Watch as Iron Man Goes from Point A to Point B

The Invincible Iron Man #14 is your standard Dark Reign tie-in. Norman Osborn is up to no good, and wants to capture Iron Man so that he can spread his tentacles even further in the Marvel Universe. The reason for this is Iron Man knows the secret identity of every super hero on the planet, and is going from armory to armory in order to gradually erase this information from his brain. However this process also impairs Tony Stark's intelligence, forcing him to pilot increasingly simplistic versions of the Iron Man armor.




Sounding like a fun concept, even with the issue being hailed as an ideal jumping on point for new readers, unfortunately the issue unfolds as if it was right in the middle of a chess match. Basically nothing really happens. Iron Man heads to his next armoury... Crimson Dynamo lends a hand... Norman Osborn gets rebuffed... Pepper Potts, a sort of female Iron Man, meets up with Tony... Madame Masque closes in on her prey... These are all just chess pieces being moved around the board in preparation for what will happen in future chapters. For me, this issue will be a lot more interesting in whichever trade paperback it will one day find itself, but right now this isn’t terribly compelling when read as a slice of something much larger. There aren't any surprises; everyone acts pretty much how you'd expect them to, along with an aura of predictability and status quo to the proceedings.

For me, the only high point was the art. Iron Man speaks to the essential human dream of flight, and seeing him streak across the Russian skies conveys a sense of liberty, beauty and power. The art really projects this. I mean who wouldn't want to be in that suit? Well, that is unless there are missiles coming after you...

7.5/10

Adam P.
Review Co- Editor