MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
ART: Stefano Caselli
COLORS: Marte Gracia
LETTERS: VC's Clayton Cowles
COVER: Stefano Caselli with Marte Gracia
VARIANT COVERS: Jeff Dekal; Adi Granov; Mike McKone with Jason Keith; Tom Raney with Frank D'Armata; Skottie Young; John Tyler Christopher
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (January 2017)
Rated “T+”
Iron Man created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Don Heck, and Jack Kirby
It seems just like yesterday I was reviewing a new Iron Man comic book series (Invincible Iron Man) and just a few days before that I was reviewing an earlier new Iron Man series (Superior Iron Man). Each one came as part of a new Marvel Comics publishing initiative.
Speak of the Marvel devil, there is a new Marvel publishing event/initiative, NOW!, and that comes with the new Invincible Iron Man comic book. The series is written by Brian Michael Bendis; drawn by Stefano Caselli; colored by Marte Gracia; and lettered by Clayton Cowles. And there is a new Iron Man, she is teenage wunderkind, Riri Williams, the first African-American female to wear an Iron Man uniform. She is Ironheart!
Invincible Iron Man #1 finds Riri putting her self-made Iron Man armor to the test against an embittered mutant, Animax. We also take a trip into Riri's past and get to witness the curious return of someone who has been watching Riri for some time.
I have high hopes for this latest version of Invincible Iron Man because of writer Brian Michael Bendis. Over the last several years, Bendis has done amazing work with an African-American character, Miles Morales, the “Ultimate” Spider-Man. In Morales, Bendis created a fully-realized Black male comic book character, and he wrote Miles as such an engaging and intriguing young fellow that I was often more interested in Miles as Miles than Miles as Spider-Man.
I don't know if Bendis will make Riri Williams more interesting as Riri than as Iron Heart, but right from this first issue, it is clear that Riri is the kind of character who will charm this comic book reader. Once again, Brian Michael Bendis proves to me why he is the best writer of superhero comic books over the last 20 years.
B+
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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