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Mike Saenz, David Michelinie, Bob Layton et al. - Iron Man: Return of the Ghost (1988-1989) Another nice Epic Collection, collecting over 400 pages of Iron Man comics, this volume has some pretty good arcs, following directly from the Armor Wars arc. It also has a couple of extra things that are a bit more rare to find like the Saenz computer generated comic which was a first of its kind and which opens this collection. So the plots are good and lead to Tony Stark getting shot and getting to be in a wheel chair for a while, it's interesting to see him deal with that, but there is a problem in the whole plot leading up to that... the fact that there is quite a bit of misogyny going on here... Basically Tony gets shot by a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend who is jealous of his philandering ways. It's a tired trope that was already tired in the late 80s and you get a lot of "irrational women" stuff in that plot. Oh well. That being said it is an overall entertaining collection, nicely priced for its nice chunky size and therefore still stuff worth having. (3/5) #davidmicheline #boblayton #superheroes #ironman #tonystark #book #books #bookish #bibliophile #bookgram #bookstagram #bookporn #bookworm #booklover #theavengers #comics #graphicnovel #graphicnovels #comic #marvelcomics #marvel #mikesaenz (at Lisbon, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/B25cJ8GFcNB/?igshid=1eyteg19dfpjc

David Micheline, Bob Layton, Dwayne McDuffie et al. - Iron Man: Doom (1989-1990) Another big volume in the epic collections at almost 500 pages long, but it's very much a mixed bag and not that well structured really. I understand Marvel Epic Collections collect issues related to one particular character, but it's still weird when you get a couple of issues from a cross-series event leaving you with what amounts to a fragment of a story. I suppose that's how marvel justifies having a seperate line (complete collection) which collects events... whatever. Late 80s early 90 aren't really my favorite time for comics, we still haven't gone full Liefeld here but the art starts approaching that style at times, the rotation of creative teams is also insane in the Iron Man comic, to the point that it seems that often plots are dropped in the middle as a new team comes on. It's a mess. This isn't to say that there aren't enjoyable issues here, the one with Doom, which in spite of being the title of the volume amount to handful of issues are fun as are the issues when Tony Stark has been shot and is using a wheelchair with his suit being his only escape from his feelings of inadequacy and depression arising from his disability. This was a really rich polt to be explored further, but the whole thing only lasts 5 issues until he gets a magical biochip that allows him to walk again as if nothing happened. So yeah, no consequences to anything. Meh. (3/5) #davidmicheline #boblayton #superheroes #ironman #tonystark #book #books #bookish #bibliophile #bookgram #bookstagram #bookporn #bookworm #booklover #theavengers #comics #graphicnovel #graphicnovels #comic #marvelcomics #marvel (at Lisbon, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3JP-ZlPeQ/?igshid=4yxehp5gmuzt