![]() Unzueta’s work is clean yet powerful, as capable of giving us Iron Man soaring above New York City as it is conveying what Tony Stark is experiencing through well-wrought facial expressions. This issue is also just gorgeous, with linework from Angel Unzueta, who has quietly been doing breakout work in these pages, after assuming main artist duties from CAFU, who opened the run. This is a great canvas with which to wrap up an Iron Man run, putting the man over the iron, and letting the narrative explore the full consequence of Stark’s epic journey and the things that he has learned about himself. With the sci-fi adventuring and brushes with godhood now in the rearview, an understated Tony seeks to clear his head so he can enjoy the event in his honor, only to find a man who has passed out in the subway, ultimately trying to save one life belonging to the most vulnerable among us. Circular narrative structure in the long-term is always something I appreciate, but what I really enjoyed most about this issue was the small scale of the problem Tony ends up facing. ![]() Writer Christopher Cantwell’s script opens with a social media feed discussing Iron Man, a nod back to the first issue as well as to Tony’s ongoing concern about whether he’s a good person, played out in the kangaroo court of online public opinion. In this week’s Iron Man #25, we find a suitably pensive Tony Stark reflecting on all he’s been through of late as he prepares for New York City to celebrate Iron Man Day in his honor. The high action for this run really wrapped up before this week’s finale, doing so excellently in Iron Man #24. What we get this week, though, is my favorite sort of ending to a long, well-done superhero run - an understated and borderline celebratory coda, although in keeping with this run, the celebration is complicated. The result was a book that was to Iron Man as the recent much-loved Immortal Hulk was to Bruce Banner, a welcome and complex redefinition that didn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak. With this familiarity as a base, the story across 25 issues pushed toward big, new ideas, bigger than we’ve seen Iron Man tackle in sometime, all while incorporating other Marvel Comics deep cuts for some nice levity. To me, this run was built on a foundation of familiar Tony Stark concerns, drawn (refreshingly!) from the character’s long comics history rather than from the Robert Downey, Jr., big screen portrayal, which has dominated the characterization of recent Iron Man books. This run to me has had a perfect blend of new ideas, while keeping the protagonist and his struggle recognizable. See, in addition to the big comics-y set pieces, this has also been a story from the beginning in which Iron Man has battled with his public perception, his own sense of self worth, his continued sobriety, and just overall how it feels to occupy his own head.Īnd these are all the reasons this run has been among my favorites, perhaps more than any other Iron Man comic in recent years. You might say it is a story in which Tony Stark has gone deep into space, been marooned on another planet, turned into a god, and pushed through it all as he’s worked toward personal growth. But now that the TV shows and the movies are more seamlessly connected, there's a list at the end if you want to see the order of every Marvel viewing property.If you’ve been following this run of Iron Man from its first issue as I have, you might characterize it as a large-scale story driven by small-yet-powerful character moments. This main list only includes theatrical films, not TV shows, because in the beginning television was its own little fiefdom events that happened in Jessica Jones or Inhumans didn't really have any ramifications on the MCU at large. Here's how to watch all the Marvel MCU movies in order, plus a preview of what's to come. As we move from one phase to the next, it might be a good time to refresh and remember everything that came before. You have to hand it to them: They've made it through 31 movies and countless TV episodes without any reboots, remakes or re-castings (with one notable exception).Īccording to the Marvel Studios executives at this year's San Diego Comic Con, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will wrap up "phase four" of the franchise, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania will begin " phase five" (whatever that means). But whatever you do, you can't keep the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) down. You can put it through the wringers of the multiverse. ![]() You can snap half of it out of existence. You can send it extra-terrestrial threats.
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