User blog comment:Hawkeye2701/Review4U: Iron Man (2013)/@comment-4651179-20131127210649

Well. I must agree Greg Land is not the best artist of them all. But, he has improved a lot since his time with porn faces and impossible posses. Now a character's expression fits his/her dialogue (most of the time), instead of having Susan Storm looking like her fight against the Seprent Squad is better than having intimacy while complaining about The Thing and Human Torch's taste for half-serpent women. During the first issues, my mayor complain would be that of how he draws Tony Stark. Mostly because he's smiling with his eyes closed 90% of his dialogue. Luckly, the artists after Land made a wonderful job, specially Carlo Pagulayan.

The Circle (the Knight guys from Symkaria) are appearing right now in the Infinite Comic Iron Man: Fatal Frontier. And The Bride (lady giving birth to the Anti-Christ) will be appearing next year.1.

I think Tony planned his space voyage before his encounter with Eli Warren. If not, he decided to program and name P.E.P.P.E.R. with that name after his encounter with Warren, and he was planning to build a new A.I. anyways.

At first, I didn't like the new Space Armor either. But it grew in me over time. I also liked the humor, snarks are an easy way to make me laugh.

I think you forgot to mention one of the key points of the first arc. It makes Tony reconsider his life and his values. Against The Circle, Stark's sense of honor is tested. Against the Drug Lord, his moral is tested. Against The Brides, he realizes that treating women like objects is bad, after facing 12 women which were literally treated like objects. And finally, when he faces Eli Warren, Tony's ethics are tested, basically because even if he's a man who wants to build the future, throughout this arc he forced himself to prevent the use of Extremis for scientific advancement.

Nice review.