A farewell letter at the end of Invincible Iron Man by Jerry Duggan. 3: Iron & Diamonds screenwriter Jerry Duggan briefly addresses fans’ initial concerns that Iron Man would be cast as a supporting character in the X-Men due to his involvement in the Krakoa X office is explained. Duggan’s position is that he and the rest of the Iron Man team avoid that pitfall and rely more on narrative similarities with classic Armor Wars.
I hate to disagree with him, but I’m firmly pro-Duggan. However, the comics included in Iron & Diamonds are 100% comics that support the X-Men.
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Throughout the 20 issues of this book, Tony Stark’s main concerns are the same as those of Krakoa. The series’ Big Bad, the super-genius and anti-mutant fanatic Feilong, makes his debut in Duggan’s own X-Men #1, and although there are strong similarities to Armor Wars, Tony’s stolen technology is With the most serious consequences for MEN: Hunting the Mutant-Sentinels.
This is a book about the Hellfire Club, an arms race to save the mutant population, and the horror of Tony Stark having his armor crushed by waves of Magneto’s hand. It’s definitely an X-Men title.
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Fortunately, Duggan and his crew never lost sight of Tony Stark himself. These may be the concerns of the X-Men, but it’s Tony’s excruciating anxiety that drives our story. Tony’s solutions are always big, obviously stupid, and unwieldy. In Iron & Diamonds, the solution is a giant mech suit built in outer space by space dwarves. His solution to big, angry robots is big, angry robots. Only Tony Stark would come up with such an exaggerated Hail Mary. Only Tony Stark would succeed in such an over-the-top attempt.
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One of the great things about the Iron Man comics is that we get to see the Iron Man suit grow and change, with the technical aspects taking inspiration from the sophisticated design as much as the story’s narrative. I am. Crees Lee’s giant full-page panel Giant Robot issue features a non-stop barrage of amazing Iron Man images, keeping the evolution of Iron in the spotlight. Our giant, Sentinel Buster, or Mark 73, is bombarded by classically influenced Iron Sentinels and Feilong’s personal Sentinel-sized War Machine armor. This issue is the Marvel Legends wishlist catalog.
And for the sake of the entire X-Men supporting cast (Emma Frost’s super villain, Forge, Magneto himself), Iron & Diamonds doesn’t skimp on the Iron Man classic. Rhodey is here in his classic War Machine armor, and so is Lili Williams (forging a giant robot armor in space). One of our main backup characters is, hilariously and ridiculously, the Living Laser.
All of this is to say that it doesn’t matter that Iron Man was simply an X-Men book. This book is full of big action and a real love of classic Bronze Age storytelling, and manages to meet all the hallmarks of a Tony Stark spectacle.
Invincible Iron Man by Gerry Duggan Vol. 3: Iron & Diamonds delivers iron on X-Men
Invincible Iron Man by Jerry Duggan Vol. 3: Iron and Diamond
Despite all the concerns about the X-Men, Iron & Diamonds maintains all the big action and armor suite needed for a classic Iron Man story.
A series of great artists will offer a host of new and classic techniques.
Duggan increases his concern for the X-Men without losing sight of Tony Stark.
Resolves Lili Williams’ major plot without any conflict at all.
