Invincible Iron Man #4 Comic Book Recap/Review

Invincible Iron Man #4 Recap/Review – Moonlight Ninja Fight Beach Party!

 

Invincible Iron Man #4 Comic Book Recap

Surrounded by ninjas, Friday begins an analysis.  They are working on a secure interconnected cybernetic web.  There are no fingerprints anywhere on the ninja armor.  Their sword tech is not identifiable from any federal database or SHIELD files.  Which means it is new tech that has never been confiscated.  So unless Tony can pull of their masks, unless they start monologuing, which is not a frequent trait in ninjas, or unless he retreats, which is not going to happen, it looks like Tony has a good old-fashioned moonlight ninja fight beach party.   Tony decides to enjoy this, and leaps into action.

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Okay, never mind.  He’s changed his mind.  This is going to suck.

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Adopting a new armor mode to suit this fight, Tony steals one of the ninja’s swords and begins to fight his opponents.  Knocking them back, he unleashes his peanut butter cup.

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He uses this opportunity to take one of the ninjas out.  As these enemies are all connected to each other through their tech, they need a moment to reboot their system, and Iron Man takes this brief window to defeat his opponents.

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Unmasking one of the ninjas, the mysterious man says he has failed.  He is dishonored.  He begins to cry, and the ninjas electrocute themselves to death.

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The police arrive, shocked, but they know Iron Man wouldn’t do this.  When they ask for a report on the incident, Tony says he already e-mailed it to one of the officers, and takes off.

Returning home, Tony begins to process everything.  He wants to investigate this further, and orders Friday to cancel anything else on his schedule.  But his holographic AI refuses.  He has an appointment to visit some sick children, and made Friday promise not to let him cancel this no matter what is going on.  She shows him a recording of himself days earlier.  They’ve already canceled on the sick kids three times for Avengers related emergencies.  He cannot do this again.  It doesn’t matter if Thanos is marrying Pepper Potts.  It doesn’t matter if the Scarlet Witch declares, “no more Tonys.”  He’s going, and the technologist reluctantly accepts this.

In no time at all, he greets the sick children, and though they are excited, they are disappointed he didn’t bring any armor.  Tony says they are right, he didn’t bring an Iron Man suit.  He brought a bunch of them. The kids are elated and Tony even lets the boy try on his latest power armor, which is able to reconfigure to the kid’s size.  Suddenly, Stark notices Victor von Doom watching him.  Outraged, he insists they talk immediately on the roof, even though Victor says he is content to wait.

Victor is baffled at this visit, saying that if he wants to help the sick kids, he should cure them.  Tony is a scientist, not a clown.  But Tony doesn’t want to hear this crap, and demands to know why Doom is here.

Over in Chicago, Mary Jane greets a huge crowd attending the opening of her new nightclub.  Free of all the superheroes of New York City, she is delighted to be setting up shop in her new favorite city.  But Madame Masque is also attending this opening, where she confronts a man.   She wants to do business with this individual but he is not interested, and though he does not feel threatened by this woman, he should be.

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As Mary Jane ponders what she does to invite such attention from the superpowered community, Victor and Tony approach Madame Masque, and say that’s enough.

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Hello and welcome to Comic Island!  My name is Arden, and this is my recap, and review, of Invincible Iron Man #4!

So, uh, the first thing I should say in this review is that I made a mistake last issue.  This is Mary Jane, not Pepper Potts.  I mean, you should be able to understand this mistake.  A red haired woman in an Iron Man comic typically only comes in one flavor.  But whatever, it’s all good.

In fact, that’s how I feel about this comic as a whole.  Everything is good.  The art is well done, the writing is polished and nicely balanced between some good character moments and excellent action, and the entire experience is quite enjoyable on the whole.  Even better, this comic was spaced out a little more than the previous issue, and I feel that works a lot more than when Marvel belted the first few issues out over only six weeks.

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I remain thoroughly impressed by the way Tony and Friday talk to one another.  The AI has her own little personality so their banter feels fresh and carries the story along quite nicely.  Meanwhile, I love this comics ending as I feel we might get a team-up between Doctor Doom and Iron Man, which has me very excited.  Of course, while I say that, the preview for the next issue hints that may not be the case.  Still, these covers can be misleading.  Looking at the cover for this issue, one might think Mary Jane is joining Stark Industries, but thus far, that’s not exactly what we’ve seen and while I enjoyed how MJ got brought into this story, she was barely in this comic.

And that’s fine.  Her introduction didn’t feel very forced or out of place this way, but yeah, it’s too hard to use these covers to tell what is going to happen.  Whatever does come to be, well, I’m enjoying this comic enough that I’m excited no matter what.  I liked and would recommend Invincible Iron Man #4.  Let me know what you guys think in the comments section below, and don’t forget to like, subscribe, and keep reading comics.