

He was like the Rima, the Jungle Girl or Apache Chief of the Avengers. Nobody cares if he goes after Stilt Man or The Beetle, but when he starts chasing down some good guys, people sit up and grumble and stuff. …and track down everyone, friend or foe, who have the Stark tech and shut their asses down. So Tony has a case of the guilts and because he’s sober now, he can’t drink over it but that doesn’t prevent him from getting a Jheri Curl doo… Hammer, because he’s a complete and utter douche, sold it to assorted ne’er do wells and people got hurt. So this tome is, as the title states, Armor Wars, a Shell-Head classic, and here’s a little exposition (heh) on what it’s about: The Spymaster stole Stark armor tech and sold it to Justin Hammer a rival of Tony Stark. or the Commies and is busy taking notes), talking to his pal Rhodey over brioche and a good white wine, or goosing Mrs. Here, the modern reader pays a heavy price by reading 10 expository panels every issue of Tony Stark talking to himself, deep in thought, talking in his sleep while the hooker he shacked up (who in reality works for A.I.M.

Long ago, before the interwebz, the Stan Lee reader acquisition philosophy was that if a reader picked up a comic for the first time then he/she should be able to jump in anywhere with some sort of exposition or footnotes or something and know what the hell is going on in his/her funny book. And he's coming for them Collects Iron Man #225-232. The world's most powerful force for good isn't playing by the rules anymore. The Beatle, Stilt Man, the Controller, Stingray, the Mandroids, the Guardsmen and Firepower don't know it yet, but they've got a problem.

In the face of objections from his government, friends, colleagues and fellow super heroes, Stark swears to use the power of Iron Man to bring the evil to an end - and to take back what's his. Stark's greatest creation is a modern-day a suit of form-fitting, strength-enhancing, steel-mesh armor he dons to become the living symbol of his ideals, the Invincible Iron Man! But when Stark discovers that the same technology he used to create the Iron Man armor - technology so secret he didn't even dare patent it - is now in the hands of several deadly super-villains, he feels responsible for the evil they have done with the high-tech tools he unwittingly provided. Millionaire industrialist Tony Stark is an inventive genius who has dedicated all of his enormous financial and intellectual resources to a single guiding the creation of technology for the betterment of humanity.
