TONY STARK: IRON MAN VOL. 3 - WAR OF THE REALMS

I had a good time reading this. That being said, if I have any issues with the book it’ss that it’s such a small collection of material new material. You have issues 12-14 of the current series, and a somewhat related filler story from 20-ish years ago. I know the next book is an entire arc itself, so I can see reasoning in the shorter collection, but for that I would have like to have seen a price reduction. Although, this is the typical page count for a five issue collection. So the material is there.Anywho, I love the art in this book issues 12-14. And the two writers knocked it out for me. This is a smart book. It’s well paced. Gail Simone does great in the first two, which are tie-ins to the big Marvel event of the moment, and manages to make the Tony Start she writes to be the Tony that Dan Slott writes. Slott is the main writer and I think he’s running on all cylinders. His Tony is a fantastic character and he’s surrounded by a great supporting cast. And a lot is set up for something big.This is a fun comic. It’s fast paced. It’s got deep elements in science and fantasy. It’s funny. The art is amazing. Great book!

This is three issues of Tony Stark: Iron Man and one double-sized issue from an earlier volume of Iron Man. Of those three "current" issues, two of those are written by a guest writer. So... it's kind of filler and it feels way less meaty when compared to the rest of the collected volumes.The guest writer in question is Gail Simone who does an adequate job writing a two-part arc that relates to the War of the Realms event that was happening at the time. They feel like they're part of the Tony Stark: Iron Man story with Tony dealing with his recent forced virtual drinking but as talented as I usually find Simone's work, there are parts of this story that feel disconnected and random. It's not as cohesive a tale as I'd like and that has nothing to do with it being related to War of the Realms because it's a self-contained story that doesn't loop in and out of the main event. The art is still great, keeping the Tony Stark: Iron Man style going strong.Regular writer, Dan Slott, returns for the third issue in this collection with a story ALSO dealing with Tony's virtual drinking and his relationship with Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel). This one is a good one and done. If would have served as a fine aftermath issue for the previous trade collection but along with the previous guest/ event tie-in arc, it sort of drags things out in anticipation of the next story arc.Is it weird that so sparse a collection still feels like it's dragging? It's weird, isn't it?ANYWAY, these are relatively inoffensive stories that cap off the final volume of Tony Stark: Iron Man. Wait. Final volume? Where do things go from here? Oh, my poor, dear Marvel reader... they go to a volume that COLLECTS issues of the Tony Stark: Iron Man series but don't call themselves by that name. Because F your trade organization.But that is a complaint for the next volume. Sorry for the preview.This book is finished with a "reprint" of Iron Man #25 from the third Iron Man series. It was initially released in the bi-gone days of 2000. It isn't a terrible issue and features art from some fan favorite Iron Man artists like Bob Layton and Sean Chen (Chen's work is the standout which is good because he was the series' regular artist at the time). The writer is Kurt Busiek and while the man wrote one of my favorite runs of Avengers, his Iron Man is SUPER boring. Industry great, Roger Sterns, is co-writing and it doesn't really help matters.What I find very interesting is how dated the colors look. Colors in comics kept leaping ahead in quality throughout the nineties and I had this believe that by 2000, things had pretty much settled into our current quality level. In some books they probably had but Iron Man wasn't a top tier book and probably didn't rate top tier colors.Anyway, beyond the less-than-interesting story and my thoughts on color evolution, the story is a big battle against the giant alien robot Ultimo. The part we're more interested in here, however, is that Carol Danvers (called Warbird back then) is coming to terms with being an alcoholic with some help from Tony Stark (still called Iron Man). It's a worthwhile inclusion and since it's an extra-sized comic, it makes this collection beefier.So... not the best book, especially considering how top level that last two books have been. There's some good stuff here but if you are just interested in the Tony Stark: Iron Man story, this is lean reading. Fortunately, it's been really well priced on amazon which makes its sparse offering a little more palatable.I don't regret the purchase but... three issues in the series is a hard sell. Including random back issues doesn't entice me very much-- I'd rather just have them collected with more issues from that series.

Just as crummy as the rest of the run. The non Dan Slott War of the Realms part was less cruddy than his part, but hey, low bar.Sometimes reading Dan Slott's Iron Man I think that he is purposefully trying to slowly suffocate Tony Stark and rid the world of all his fans.

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