Product Description

Carnivale's Daniel Knauf and Cable & Deadpool's Patrick Zircher take the armored Avenger in an unexpected new direction! Having exposed himself to the Extremis enhancile, Tony Stark is a new man - literally! But that's what has his New Avengers allies worried! And who is the mysterious figure working his way down a list of politically sensitive targets? Collects Iron Man #7-12.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #358002 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

A another step forward...
This is volume two of the most recent Iron Man series. It Continues directly on from "Iron Man: Extremis". Infact the story is almost dependant on the Extremis plot, so i recommend buying Extremis first.

The art is by my favourite artist of all time Patrick Zircher, who also works on the "Cable and Deadpool" ongoing series. It is a completely different style from the first iron man volume, its much more "classic" comic.

The plot is interesting and well thought out, but you are often wishing that it would speed up abit since it gets a little obvious. And the ending was a little anticlimactic. It finishes somewhere you wouldn't think it would, and is almost a prelude to Civil War.

You should buy this if you have read and liked "Iron Man: Extremis", but if you haven't, buy Extremis first, then this.

A prelude to Civil War, and why Tony Stark took the position he did
Iron Man Execute Programme is a very good read. Ably scripted by Zircher, it tells of Tony Stark's brain literally being hacked into and he's doing things that he has no idea of. In addition, with Stark being totally rewired with the Extremis running through his body, Stark isn't just Iron Man in terms of suit, it's literally a part of him, like blood cells and skin. The reader is taken on a ride with Stark, as he tries to isolate and override the impulses that are making him do what he cannot control (like, killing people).

In addition, the story starts to plant the seeds of discontent between Stark and his fellow New Avenger team leader, Captain America (Steve Rogers). Captain America is disturbed by Stark's almost robotic and logical way of dispensing the enemy, and the chilly way that Stark literally blows off his allies in terms of getting work done.

At the end of the story, the person who did this to Stark is literally a footnote. The real end of the story is that Stark literally defines himself as a dangerous weapon, and as such, dangerous weapons should be registered. Cue the precursor to Civil War and why he and Captain America are literally on different sides of the aisle.

All in all, this is a very sympathetic portrait of Tony Stark, in terms of man and the machine within him, and how despite everything, Tony's methods are always founded on good intentions (although they don't go that way!).

Worth a read, definitely.