Wednesday, September 02, 2009

the Invincible Iron Man #17 - Marvel

Ok . . it seems as if everything is falling apart right now for Tony Stark and Iron Man. I think he's finally hit the bottom. Actually, I hope so. I don't know what other bad things could happen to this guy. How much more can he take? After his fight with Whitney last issue, he's taken off for 'Stark Lab double-zero'. Wherever that is. All we know is that it's 9 hours and 9 minutes away from where he is right now. He's not happy about leaving Pepper behind with Whitney, but . . she wants him to escape. She feels that his destiny is more important than her own. But with Tony's diminished capacity, and he's fatigued from the recent conflict . . on his way to the base he falls asleep in the armor and is shot out of the sky in what looks like the Middle-East. Whitney returns to Osborne. She claims that Tony escaped, but that she killed Pepper and recovered her armor. But I think there's something up here. I think Pepper is actually in the armor. And if so . . her and Whitney are up to something. We just don't know what it is yet. Anyways, Maria Hill is still having problems after her attack by the Controller. She's holed up with Natasha right now. But she's even a handful for her. They've arranged a meeting with Captain America to hand off the hard-drive that Tony sent her after. But during Tony's trip, he sends an E-Mail to Maria . . and not a secure one. During the exchange HAMMER agents capture Natasha and Maria. Cap gets away, but we don't know what happened to the hard-drive. I find it hard to believe that any of this is going according to plan. Unless of course, Tony came up with all of this before he started deleting his intelligence. But like I said . . I think this is the bottom. Hopefully from here Tony can start scratching his way back. Matt Fraction has done a terrific job deconstructing both Tony and Iron Man. Now I just hope he can put him all back together again. The World's Most Wanted story-line continues through issue #19. That's where we switch to the Tony Stark: Disassembled story-line. Apparently that leads up to something big that's supposed to happen in issue #25. Oh yeah . . and of course, Salvador Larroca continues to do a fantastic job with the art.

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