Review also posted to my blog.


content warnings: violence, body horror
representation: bisexual protagonist, black main character with ptsd, asian main character, black main character

“Maybe next time I won’t be there to --”
“To what? Literally catch me when I fall? You’re James Rhodes. That’s who you are. It’s what you do”

If you haven't heard me rant on Tumblr then you may not know that is my all-time favourite MCU character. When it comes to comics his ranking drops a bit, but I still absolutely love him and am down to read pretty much anything with him. My love of him is probably why I enjoyed this more than most people seemed to.

After coming back to life, Tony's harbouring some dark secrets that he hasn't told anyone. There's also someone hacking into Stark Enterprises, a malicious dating app, some AI relationship problems, and more.

In terms of plot, I didn't really care for the overarching plot. The individual issue plots were much more interesting to me because they were all very character-driven, whereas the overarching plot just felt like something to tie everything together.

Speaking of character, generally I really liked all of our leads. Tony, obviously, is the light of my life, I love this bi disaster. There's also Rhodey, one of my underrated faves, and their relationship is just as great as it always is, thank god. There were also characters who I wasn't too familiar with, such as the comic version of Jan and, one of my new favourite characters, Jacosta. Even the characters who didn't make much of an impression on me were still fun additions.

However, something that I didn't love that I didn't even realise until after I finished is how this comic, despite being titled after him, isn't really from Tony's perspective. It definitely heavily features Tony, but with the exception of the Rhodey-centric issue, the comic never felt concerned with actually dealing with anything Tony was going through.

To end on a more positive note, I actually liked the art style. It wasn't anything spectacular but I didn't have the same issue with it that other people seem to. In general, this was a fine comic that I liked a lot more than I probably should have because it gave me some of my boy and after Endgame I just want to see him living his best bi life.