The next thing you will notice is the tech-heavy writing. I’m starting to think the writer might actually like Tony Stark after all. We see SHIELD mouthing the same anti-Stark blather we hear at our local comic shop. Iron Man blasts everything to smithereens during a SHIELD test. Cool. Tony reminisces during the “fray”…funny bit with teen-age Tony getting busy with a high-school hotty by getting her drunk on wine-coolers! Good moves, Tony, Passion Peach flavor even… but then she turns into some crazy-dreamy-multi-lingual goth-suicide-chick! Yes! Good stuff! What the heck is happening? I don’t know… I’ll keep reading…Wait! Tony isn’t in the armor at all. He’s lamenting his alcoholism and wakes up from a dream of being killed by his Iron Man armor encasing him “Iron Maiden” style. That Suicide Chick again…now speaking French! Wait! Now SHIELD blasts Iron Man from the sky-decapitating him. But Iron Man catches his severed head and screws it back on! It was a robot, or was it? Yes we’ve seen remote controlled Iron Man before, but something different is happening here...  

The story is as confusing as my review, but all together a good issue. I would say 3 repulsors plus… I couldn’t go all the way with a 4 repulsor rating, and it’s better than a half repulsor, so if I would be allowed to tack 2 speed skates to that then so be it.