MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel
WRITER: Tom Taylor
ART: Yildiray Cinar
COLORS: Guru-eFX
LETTERS: VC's Clayton Cowles
COVER: Mike Choi
VARIANT COVERS: Yildiray Cinar; Tom Fowler with Brad Anderson; Mike Perkins with Andy Troy; Sara Pichelli; Alex Ross, Ty Templeton; Skottie Young
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (January 2015)
Rated “T+”
“Be Superior” Chapter 1: Nightmare Scenario
Superior Iron Man is a new Iron Man comic book series, launched as part of Marvel Comics' “Avengers NOW!” initiative. The series follows the events depicted in the miniseries, Avengers & X-Men: Axis. One of the changes to come out of that story is that Tony Stark a/k/a Iron Man now has a changed personality. A more sinister Tony Stark has special plans for the world.
As Superior Iron Man #1 (“Nightmare Scenario”) opens, She-Hulk is fighting a new villain that calls himself “Teen Abomination.” The Lady Green Behemoth gets a helping hand from Iron Man, but all isn't as it appears. Meanwhile, Stark has launched a new app called “Extremis 3.0.” This is a techno-virus designed to make people the very best they can be – physically, at least. This is the dawn of a new day in San Francisco...
I didn't expect much from Superior Iron Man #1, but I also hoped that it would be good and that I would enjoy it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I often read the first issue of a new comic book series and decide not to even try the second issue (the recent Deathlok, for example), but I have already purchased the second issue of Superior Iron Man.
Tom Taylor's script is clever and filled with mystery and also with a sense of dread that really awful things are coming. I like Yildiray Cinar's matter-of-fact storytelling and his conservative Bryan Hitch-like style. The art emphasizes the darkness beneath the pretty surface, a darkness that is going to get really ugly, really soon. There is potential here for Taylor and Cinar to be one of the great Iron Man creative teams, and I hope that comes to pass. I recently decided not to give first issues a letter grade, but I am going to break that new policy for Superior Iron Man.
A-
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux
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