Product Description

The untold origin of Iron Man continues - written by international best-selling author Orson Scott Card! When last we saw him, young Tony Stark was nearly blown to bits! How much of him survived his initial Iron Man trial run, and where does the young genius go from here? Plus: How does James Rhodes fit into Tony's plans for the perfect fighting machine? Four-time Hugo Award-winner, two-time Nebula Award-winner, and World Fantasy Award-winner Orson Scott Card (author of Ender's Game) returns to the Ultimate Universe, now joined by Ultimate Fantastic Four's Pasqual Ferry! Collects Ultimate Iron Man II #1-5.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153096 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-13
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Ultimate Iron Man Volume 2
I must first say that aside from volume 1 of Ultimate Iron Man I have not read any other of Orson Scott Card's work (So I am not to be categorised as a Fanboy of Card's), but, until reading Ultimates, I had not read much of Iron Man either.
This book picks up straight from Volume 1, after the book concluded with Tony Stark (in prototype armour) getting blown to kingdom come by "terrorists".
Before I go on I would advise that this book will make a lot more sense if Volume 1 is read first.
The book mainly follows (without going into too much detail) the plot of Iron Man (and War Machine) trying to find the person responsible for this attack, as well as trying to locate and stop nuclear weapons being used in new york, which the individual(s) responsible, are wanting the Iron Man armour (believed to be a highly advanced robot) in exchange for the nuclear warhead.
Nearly all characters from the first book (who lived) make an appearance and the action is well portrayed. The story is rarely strayed away from in favour of huge battles which I also enjoyed, and the artwork is ok.
Overall a fun book, not the best book you'll read this year, but a good read nontheless.

disappointing

After reading the first volume which I thought had flashes of brilliance (which I'd expect from Orson Scott Card) but let down in quantity I didn't honestly have high hopes for this volume, but reasoned it should be of a similar quality, which would still make it a good read.....
Unfortunately not. This started nowhere and bumbled its way to nowhere's twinned town of emptysville. There was no character development, no real story no tension - nothing. If I didn't know any better I'd have said he wrote it in 30 minutes stuck on a train or something - there's no thought or energy been put into it, it's about as exciting as an episode of Heartbeat. This is Iron Man and there is little to do with the suit, no gadgets, no cool toys no flashes of brilliance from Tony that save his backside at the last minute - nothing. I've eaten more exciting toast.

Really let down by this. Compared to Extremis and Execute Program V.2 etc and the quality of writing I know Orson Scott Card is capable of (Enders Game, Songmaster)this is really poor.