Invincible Iron Man #598
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doomfansAt MIT, Riri and her new friends, who apparently all have their own armour, track a location that Friday claims is a likely hit for Tony, but instead they find an arms dealer. It turns out that Tony is messing with Friday's programming, and speaks through her hologram to tell them to leave him alone and stop looking for him.
Meanwhile, the Hood and his group of boring minor villains reenact the same scene with Doom we've done four or five times now, implausibly keeping the upper hand while they try to smack him up and get into the armour until he finally teleports away, this time leaving the armour behind. The Hood decides they've got to find Tony to figure out what Doom is up to with the whole Iron Man thing, meaning that, ugh, we probably still haven't seen the last of these guys. But good news! On the last page we finally get some plot progression, as we discover that this time Doom, injured, has teleported to Amara's home in Boston. She says it's unfair of him to come to her, but he says "I am the father of your unborn child and I need help. I think there is some obligation here."
To be continued...
Okay, for that ending I will forgive the annoying setup with the Hood's gang, since I'm really glad this plotline hasn't been dropped. I'm very interested to see how the interaction between the two of them plays out, and where this can possibly be going with only one more issue to go before #600. (I'm now leaning towards placing my money on "injured Doom sacrifices himself to protect his unborn child, either ends up dead for a while or gets re-scarred and goes into a downward spiral", which is not so bad as possible endings go. Though if we get Amara being killed off or losing the baby to motivate him to be evil again instead, I will Not Be Happy.) Anyway, wherever this is going, I hope we get some sort of background/flashbacks on when the hell the two of them supposedly slept together. I assume way back when he was helping her set up her lab, which suggests this has all happened in a much shorter period of time than it feels like reading it.
And actually, semi-relatedly, one detail I do kind of like from the otherwise deeply boring Hood gang scenes is the way they clearly have so little idea what's going on with Doom's heroic kick or even his whole deal in general beyond "badass supervillain who runs a country". Like Riri having no idea who Blade is, it's a nice detail that grounds it all in a world where the characters are not actually reading along as events happen in the comics, and are not necessarily so up-to-date on all the twists and turns of what everyone else is doing and why.
Art-wise... well, I feel kind of bad always saying "art continues to be good in the same ways it's been good all along", but, you know, the plot being so repetitive doesn't much help with that. So I was completely meh on all the samey murky fight scenes, and funnily enough, the thing that really stood out to me this month was Amara's suit jacket when she's bending over Victor. Those are some quality fabric folds right there! It's the little things. And there's some nice subtlety in his expression in the final panel as well.
Anyway, it seems like the plot has finally arrived, and I'm feeling much more optimistic about the direction of this than I was after last issue, so roll on next month!
Meanwhile, the Hood and his group of boring minor villains reenact the same scene with Doom we've done four or five times now, implausibly keeping the upper hand while they try to smack him up and get into the armour until he finally teleports away, this time leaving the armour behind. The Hood decides they've got to find Tony to figure out what Doom is up to with the whole Iron Man thing, meaning that, ugh, we probably still haven't seen the last of these guys. But good news! On the last page we finally get some plot progression, as we discover that this time Doom, injured, has teleported to Amara's home in Boston. She says it's unfair of him to come to her, but he says "I am the father of your unborn child and I need help. I think there is some obligation here."
To be continued...
Okay, for that ending I will forgive the annoying setup with the Hood's gang, since I'm really glad this plotline hasn't been dropped. I'm very interested to see how the interaction between the two of them plays out, and where this can possibly be going with only one more issue to go before #600. (I'm now leaning towards placing my money on "injured Doom sacrifices himself to protect his unborn child, either ends up dead for a while or gets re-scarred and goes into a downward spiral", which is not so bad as possible endings go. Though if we get Amara being killed off or losing the baby to motivate him to be evil again instead, I will Not Be Happy.) Anyway, wherever this is going, I hope we get some sort of background/flashbacks on when the hell the two of them supposedly slept together. I assume way back when he was helping her set up her lab, which suggests this has all happened in a much shorter period of time than it feels like reading it.
And actually, semi-relatedly, one detail I do kind of like from the otherwise deeply boring Hood gang scenes is the way they clearly have so little idea what's going on with Doom's heroic kick or even his whole deal in general beyond "badass supervillain who runs a country". Like Riri having no idea who Blade is, it's a nice detail that grounds it all in a world where the characters are not actually reading along as events happen in the comics, and are not necessarily so up-to-date on all the twists and turns of what everyone else is doing and why.
Art-wise... well, I feel kind of bad always saying "art continues to be good in the same ways it's been good all along", but, you know, the plot being so repetitive doesn't much help with that. So I was completely meh on all the samey murky fight scenes, and funnily enough, the thing that really stood out to me this month was Amara's suit jacket when she's bending over Victor. Those are some quality fabric folds right there! It's the little things. And there's some nice subtlety in his expression in the final panel as well.
Anyway, it seems like the plot has finally arrived, and I'm feeling much more optimistic about the direction of this than I was after last issue, so roll on next month!
