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Iron Man Vol. 2: The Secret Origin Of Tony Stark - Book One (Iron Man (2012-2014)) Kindle & comiXology

by Kieron Gillen (Author), Greg Land (Illustrator, Cover Art, Artist), Dale Eaglesham (Artist) Format: Kindle Edition

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Part of: Iron Man (2012-2014)

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Collects Iron Man (2012) #6-11. Tony Stark. In space. In a bar. With ladies. What could go wrong? Tune in NOW! as the Armored Avenger reaps the surprising consequences of his role in AVX! Plus: The story that will shake Iron Man to his very core starts here! Many years ago, Howard and Maria Stark had a baby - but there's something you don't know.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DYVET04
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel (August 7, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 7, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 394188 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 130 pages

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Kieron Gillen is a British writer, journalist and critic best known for his work in comics and his previous work in entertainment journalism.

Gillen's first graphic novel, PHONOGRAM (with artist/co-creator Jamie McKelvie), was published through IMAGE COMICS in 2006. Since then he's found work writing for MARVEL, AVATAR, BOOM, TOKYOPOP, DYNAMITE and more that don't spring to mind right now.

At Marvel, he's written runs on books including THE UNCANNY X-MEN, THOR, YOUNG AVENGERS, IRON MAN, JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY, STAR WARS, DOCTOR APHRA and DARTH VADER.

Books he's created included UBER, MERCURY HEAT and THREE, but is best known for the ongoing gods-as-popstar series with long time collaborators Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson THE WICKED + THE DIVINE launched to both huge critical and commercial success in 2014. It will conclude in 2019.

He is working on other things.

In his previous life as a critic, his work has appeared in WIRED, THE GUARDIAN, PLAYSTATION MAGAZINE UK, PC GAMER, EDGE and far too many others to count. In 2007 he was one of the founders of ROCKPAPERSHOTGUN.COM, what is now the world's premier PC-centric games blog.

He once played records for DMC to rap over.

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Elizabeth Gatica

Fun, well written, and solid art.

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2013

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The writing is fantastic, the pacing is great. I'm not in love with the art, but that's a taste thing, it's good. Definitely worth your while.

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Jarred Blackburn

secret origin book 1

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2016

iron man in space as we find him fighting for his life against an alien race that worships the phoenix as a god and condemns him to death by combat and the mysterious recorder who offfers to help him not only save himself but also reveals the truth surrounding his genius and birth

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Axel McAsset

Tony Stark; engineer, hero, godkiller, saviour of the universe

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2013

There may be spoilers ahead...

Collecting issues 6 to 11 of the new, revamped Iron Man series under the Marvel NOW! revolution, this volume is split into 2 parts. The first 3 issues is a story called Godkiller, and is an aftermath to the Avengers versus X-Men event from 2012. The second half of the volume is the first part of an epic story that will take up all of volume 3 as well, entitled The Secret Origin of Tony Stark.

Godkiller is linked to Secret Origin, so they are not standalone stories. At the end of volume 1, Iron Man left Planet Earth and headed out into the stars to basically explore and have new adventures and "boldly go...etc". Volume 2 kicks off with him having one such adventure where we see him in the midst of a dogfight against alien space pirates and coming to the aid of an alien race called the Voldi.

The Voldi are hugely grateful for his intervention and we next see him being amorous with a purple skinned alien princess, and all is going well at first base until the Voldi discover that Iron Man was responsible for the destruction of the Phoenix Force (see Avengers Versus X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis (2012) , who the race just happen to worship as their God. Oops.

So Tony is on trial for the crime of deicide. Step forward Recorder 451, an alien robot of unknown origin who, for as yet unknown reasons, wishes to assist Tony in gaining his freedom.

After some gladitorial trial by combat and the appearance of Death's Head - a 30 foot tall robot bounty hunter, plus some nasty genocidal destruction of the Voldi, we move on to the start of the epic Secret Origin storyline.

In this story, Tony is now held captive by Recorder 451, and he begins to show him an old video reel, recorded by Tony's father Howard, and all of a sudden, everything that Tony know's about his past and heritage has all been a lie. Why? Because the recording shows Howard Stark and Recorder 451 working together, and we learn that 451 intervenes during Tony's time in his mother's womb, manipulating his genes in order for him to be the greatest scientist/engineer that ever lived.

Most of this part of the story is told in flashback mode, as Howard Stark learns of a way of saving his dying, unborn child. Heading to Las Vegas with a band of questionable merry men, he finds a gang of alien gangsters, hiding in disguise but in plain sight who have Recorder 451 captive. Rescuing 451, Howard learns that 451 can save his child, and reveals that Tony is destined for greatness, but only 451's intervention can achieve this.

So, we learn that Tony Stark is not a naturally gifted individual and a chip off the old block - he has actually been genetically engineered to be that way. This is quite a revelation and as promised by writer Kieron Gillen in his narrative at the start, it has kind of shook the foundations of the Iron Man mythology.

But I like it. It changes the way I think about him now. Reed Richards, Henry Pym, Hank McCoy - all brilliant and leading superhero scientists in their own right, but are now seemingly overshadowed by Tony Stark, who has a destiny to save the Earth which is being watched, we learn from 451, by cosmic beings. This possibly connects to this year's Marvel event INFINITY.

Kieron Gillen is just about at the top of his game at the moment. I devotingly loved his work on Journey Into Mystery, and this may be evident in my reviews of that title here on Amazon, which I've mostly given five stars.

I'm trying to give his Iron Man books 5 stars, but I just can't. Whilst his first 2 volumes have been really good, they are not astoundingly great when I compare them to his awesome Journey Into Mystery stories. I would probably give them 4.5 stars. The artists are decent enough, and in this volume the pencil duties are shared between Greg Land and Dale Eaglesham. Both are high quality artists, and the colouring is superb as well.

I should probably give another quarter mark for bringing Death's Head into the story. I remember him from the late 80s but I could not recall from what publication. After a quick type into my trusty search engine, I found that he was in Transformers comics, which I've never read, and also made the odd appearance in Dr Who comics, which I probably did read for a short while in my mid to late teens. Gillen brought him back recently in S.W.O.R.D. but now he's in Iron Man. Bravo I say, and I hope there's more to come from this strange but brilliant bounty hunter.

This 4.75 rated volume ends on a cliffhanger, so there's more to come from The Secret Origin of Tony Stark. As Death's Head might say, "To be continued, yes?"

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jay jay

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2014

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Good.

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