IronMan Stories Now - whats your opinion ??

i loved the Detroit Steel arc. the current arc with Dr. Octopus is interesting. i'm looking forward to his role in Fear Itself too. i think the core title is going in a good direction.

as for the current armor. it looks fine, but i hate when the comics change a character's appearance to make them look similiar to their movie counterpart. its supposed to be the other way around. Tony tends to not go back to old armors once he upgrades, so unfortunately its kind of doubtful you'll see him wearing Extremis again. i loved the Modular armor, that was my favorite. i was sad to see it go.

Invincible Iron Man is amazing. I never want to see another writer other than Matt Fraction write as Tony Stark again. I really dig that Fraction writes these long story arcs. Really, issues 8-19 are just one big storyline for "World's Most Wanted." Even now, Detroit Steel was a good 9 issues, and it's not done yet; it's just taking a seat for a momentum while it builds up more and we get a solid story for Doc Ock. This is one of my favorite ongoing titles.

Issue 500 doesn't really tie into Detroit Steel, Doc Ock, or anything directly. It's mainly a stand-alone anniversary issue, but it's still good. Doc Ock shows up in issue 501. He's dying from numerous blows to the head and only has a few months to live, as revealed in Spider-Man back in 2009. In a nut shell, they flash back to when Doc Ock met Tony Stark many years ago, and now Doc Ock is challenging Tony Stark to fix his brain. The dialogue between the two is just fantastic.

I'm a big fan of Fraction's work on the title. I've seen people bash it because it's really wordy and for a while didn't have much action but that's a reason why I love it. 501 was real good.

i actually like fractions style as well but at this time what he's doing with IronMan just doesn't seem as exciting as it did in the past. Even in the beginning of Fraction run with the series when Tony was being chased by the world with Norman trying to get all those juicy secrets out of his head there was that sense that Tony had to save not just himself but everyone else along with him. It also made the story seem like it was the most important thing going on in the marvel universe.
Sadly I compare the ending to "World most Wanted" to spider-mans "brand new day" story, I think that was the title of it. Everyone saw how spider-man was rebooted in a way with the better part of maybe 5 or more years totally erased. I cant speak for everyone but I do remember reading and hearing a lot of unhappy fans complaining. Ironman does the same by totally erasing his mind.

Fractions a great writer there is no doubt but he's been working on the book for a long time now, it looks to me he maybe running on fumes. I have read #500 but not #501 but from what Hugoone wrote it seems that Ironman is dealing with foes that are below him. I remember once reading an issue from back in 2006 maybe where Tony was explaining that he was done dealing with costumed bad guys and wanted to focused on changing not just the problems of whatever city he was in or not just the whole United States but the world.
I know the base for the Detroit Steel story was that Tony was looking to expand arc tech so that it could be used by the whole world but with the large build up in story towards this feeling that when Ironman took on Steel was going to be an awesome fight in actuality the end result left me feeling that I got cheated in a way. The fight didn't feel whole is the only way i can say it felt to me.

I compare the story to a roller coaster. We all know the two most important moments of the ride is going up the track then down. With Ironman it seemed like the ride up was all that was exciting and at the top of the coaster was just the exit.