The Invincible Iron Man, Vol. 5: Stark Resilient, Book 1

yes, the cover is crappy. somebody should be ashamed, but because everything inside is great. after the mediocre (and worse) time lost in disassembled's rambling psychic journey inside tony's head this is Fraction doing what he has done best with Tony Stark. 10 years ago who would have thought of iron man as being as relevant and important as he is now? fraction & larroca have made iron man a must read for the adult comic community.In Resilient we find Tony facing and dealing with the fears he stated back in the Five Nightmare. They are more than just plot points they are connecting to the past, but philosophic questions too. they are also dealing with a question that i've had since the movie. if you have this amazing power source should you do something more than just play hero with it? they've had this volume planned from the beginning and it's coming to a beautiful fruition.he's building a new suit, a new company and rebuilding his frayed relationships with friends and heroes. The dialogue is sharp and interesting. the relational tensions are real, which is amazing considering the crazy soap opera amnesia contrivances they are working out of. how do they make it seem so real is the magic of it. i love how they are not using this mind wipe to absolve tony of everything he's done in the last decade.i know larroca has some haters, but i think his art is spot on. he has a deft and subtle touch that makes all these crazy comic book colors real. there is one frame of dr. richards thinking real hard that is an amazing jem. i completely missed it on the 1st read, but was guaffing on the 2nd go round.this is a great entry point into this series. i strongly recommend getting everything that has gone before, but if you've been hearing all the good praise thrown this way and are curious, this is a great place to start. Stark and Fraction are back!

This is everything the 4th volume (Invincible Iron Man Vol. 4: Stark Disassembled) was not. Good to see Matt Fraction weaving together the different ideas he started in previous volumes. Am becoming a fan of Salvador Larroca's artwork, reminds me of Framk Cho's work in Mighty Avengers The Ultron Initiative. As everyone else noted, the low resolution cover looks like a cheap zoom of the smaller image inside the book. Marvel can do better than deliver internet browser quality covers.

This arc presents the comeback of Tony Stark and the begginig of the New Stark Enterorises "Stark Ressilnet" the art of Salvador Larroca is ALWAYS GOOD AND PRFECT, and Matt Fraction it's the next Michael Bendis, snuff said

Reprints The Invincible Iron Man (2008 series) #s 25-28. The years and issues preceding and including the Siege crossover event have been chaotic and difficult for Tony Stark, to say the least. Going in with the best of intentions, he not only backed but spearheaded the wrong side in Marvel's superhero Civil War, resulting in the death of a number of friends and leaving Tony seen as a sellout or outright villain in the eyes of many. He cloned the then-dead Thor and ended up earning the enmity of the real Thor upon his return. He led a new incarnation of the Avengers on a number of successful missions but got the heat for everything that went wrong. Then after the Skrull Secret Invasion nearly conquered the Earth in the wake of the split in Earth's superhero community, who got the blame? Yup, Tony. For the record, Norman Osborn ended up getting the credit for winning the war. Stark found himself ousted from the Avengers, ousted from SHIELD, and persecuted by Osborn's H.A.M.M.E.R. organization which replaced SHIELD. During all this, Tony's personal life took some rather unexpected turns too.In order to prevent Osborn from weaponizing all the technology in his mind, Tony took the rather draconian step of mindwiping his own brain. Fortunately, his mind was largely restored by transfer from a backup file, once it was deemed safe and necessary. That leads us to where we are at the beginning of The Invincible Iron Man Volume 5: Stark Resilient Book I. Tony's aware of most of what transpired in recent times, but from second-hand accounts and reading about them; all his recent memories are gone. His company's gone bankrupt and his personal life is a shambles, but he's back in with the Avengers. The super action of Avengers isn't where this book goes though. Almost as if in rebuttal to a sentiment among some that Marvel (or comics in general) can only do well with the big, fantastic action scenes (not true, as longtime readers already knew) the creative team for this book has crafted a very story-based, very character-based volume with little fighting (when it's there it's good though) and indeed little of what would be typically described as action. This one is actually more about Tony Stark than Iron Man and may well bore readers who aren't into page after page of dialogue (although it must be noted that the art by Salvador LaRocca shows that comic art can also be very compelling depicting 'everyday' situations and events), but if you don't mind a different make and model of superhero story, this is for you.Tony Stark/Iron Man not only wants to stabilize his life, repair his relationships and rebuild his company, he's also out to save the world. But in a different way than Iron Man usually does. Tony decides to get out of the weapons business altogether--he's bolstered American defense by arming its army but has also watched much of his tech filter into the hands of some very bad people throughout the world--and tackle new horizons. The new focus for Stark Resilient, the new name for Stark Industries? Adapt Iron Man's repulsor technology (RT) for peaceful purposes, give the world free, non-polluting, renewable power and see fossil fuels entirely phased out within thirty years. Iron Man will still be available when heavy hitting is required, but there's going to be more focus on the less combative parts of Tony Stark's empire, or at least that's the plan. Very much in keeping with this theme, Tony's longtime confidante Pepper Potts, who in previous volumes took over for Tony as a kind of Iron Woman, wants to continue her work in her rebranded identity of Rescue: a superhero with no offensive capabilities. If Iron Man is a state-of-the-art armored warrior, Rescue is a state-of-the-art armored paramedic/first responder.Meanwhile, the Hammer family launches itself back into business as an arms builder to fill the vacuum left by Stark Industries, and manages to buy itself back some legitimacy. Thor drops by with a unique offer. And Tony can't understand why the women in his life are acting so strange around him.Like I said, this a bit different from many of Marvel's other collections, but it's still a total winner. 10/10.

A must for a collector and fan of the series!

This book is very engaging. I have been following this story arc for some time. 3rd read in two years.

I feel this is trying to build up to some sort of action in the next trade, but for a trade just to have 5 issues of build up is ridiculous. Hell, its not even exciting at all.

But that does not detract how awesome the story is! I love the art, the storyline, and the science! Definitely a must read.

So ok, this is book 1 of 2. So ok, Stark is just waking up after having lost everything in the previous story arc. So ok, he really did get on the wrong sides of people before the lead-up to Dark reign. Just stop apologising man!And he does apologise a lot during the start of the book, but this is a book of how he get's it all back together again so you have to expect that. It's a long story setup with blips of action interspersed, building up to Stark resilient book 2. It's a necessary buildup and it's pretty good. The tension is all there in the form of some new (yet old) rivals who have some kind of long play sabotage against Stark and his new direction.The artwork is fresh and the dialogue, although quite long at times (he does do a lot of talking) is ok. All in all, something to tide over till the meat (Stark Resilient book 2).

The Invincible Iron Man series is fantastic! I've bought all of these graphic novels in order, they are fantastically well illustrated and the story line is engaging throughout!Invincible Iron Man was the first 'comic' that I had ever bought, I've not been disappointed once.

I bought this as a xmas present for my boyfriend and he loved it, packaging was great, came on time too :)

delivery was fast and the item is as described

A nice way to reconstruct Iron Man. Action takes a back seat to dialogue, but that is a positive thing if you enjoy the business side of Tony Stark's story.