{"id":32703,"date":"2026-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=32703"},"modified":"2024-07-16T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T21:31:21","slug":"invincible-iron-man-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/04\/01\/invincible-iron-man-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Invincible Iron Man 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Paper comic books, what a concept. This time we\u2019re dropping into Matt Fraction, Salvador LaRocca & Frank D\u2019Armata\u2019s Iron Man run. It\u2019s an epilogue to their first arc on this title, a little breather before they get into one of the craziest Iron Man stories of all time. And look who\u2019s in it! This title seems a bit odd in retrospect. It launched as a 2nd monthly Iron Man title alongside the one that had been going since Heroes Return. But around the release of this issue, I think, that title was ended and this one became the main title. Fraction had already made a splash at Marvel on Punisher War Journal and Immortal Iron Fist, but in 2008, he took over both Uncanny X-Men and Iron Man, the latter just as his first movie was coming out and his stature in the Marvel Universe was significantly elevated. Fraction was officially one of the writers whose name made a book important now. And here\u2019s how this issue starts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Front Line office. It\u2019s funny how the Spider-Man part seems to take over a comic when he guest stars. Speaking of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who is Peter Parker? Like, seriously, who is he? Could he maybe be Josh Hartnet? I know so few celebrities. I think I spelled Hartnet wrong, but I\u2019m not going to check. Is Ben Urih Sidney Poitier? I think he is! Well, you know. Peter \u201cworked at\u201d Stark Industries. In my memory, he got a job as a scientist there, somehow. Clearly, that was not true. And then Tony hired him, like, 2 seconds before Civil War broke out, and that was that. I believe this would\u2019ve been my first look at Peter\u2019s status quo since quitting ASM. Not that it told me too much. Oh, as for Iron Man, he\u2019s just had the son of Obidiah Stane show up and do crazy tech-terrorism to his company. Fractions was faced with Marvel\u2019s desire to do comics tying into a movie whose lead villain was long dead, so he came up with a son. It was an interesting villain for sure. Then the 2nd Iron Man came out, and THAT villain was dead, too, and they had to work around it. Very awkward, but they did their best. Anyway, Ben drives Peter out to Stark Industries, telling him about an article from the 60s interviewing Clifton Pollard, the man who dug the grave of JFK, and how Ben wants to find an angle like that on this Stark terrorism business. Not just the party line, but someone on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, like\u2026 What does Tony know now? What does he think is the reason he doesn\u2019t like Peter? Does he even not like Peter? Why does he remember hiring a high school teacher to go to Washington with him and plead the case against registration? How could he or anyone with close ties to both Peter and Spider-Man not get a raging headache when they see either one now? Many years from now, when Daredevil\u2019s identity has been similarly retconned, Kingpin will remember he used to know who DD was, and that he doesn\u2019t now, that someone did something to him to make him forget, and he will set New York on fire over it in a very good crossover event. Oh, dang, and we\u2019ll be seeing it to some degree, now that I think about it, and boy, you won\u2019t believe the Spider-Man angle. But, as usual, getting ahead of myself. I don\u2019t think Peter is Josh Hartnet, but I don\u2019t know who he is. Well, cut to night time, when Tony Stark has become Iron Man, and is narrating that he\u2019s been going nonstop for days, Tony Stark in the day time, Iron Man at night, and tonight he\u2019s helping clean up after one of the attacks on his facilities. But some of the rubble shifts, and one of his guys is about to be crushed. And then a certain webslinger zips through and saves him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spidey, come on, you were infamously there after 9\/11. It\u2019s funny, people so associate the Tony-in-the-helmet view with the movies now, and that looks more or less like it, but Bendis created that in New Avengers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still putting that garish Raimi movie spider on Spider-Man. LaRocca only doing one arc in ASM isn\u2019t hurting my feelings. Spidey gets a tracer on Iron Man\u2019s foot and decides his old boss is getting his help one way or another. Soon enough, Iron Man is at the hotel where the Tinkerer is living, thinking he must\u2019ve had something to do with the old Stark tech used in the attacks. And he just walks up and knocks on the door. When Mason sees him, he activates some rockets in his wheelchair that shoot him out the window, but they also dump him out of the chair, and into the waiting arms of Spider-Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How could Iron Man not know how Spider-Man followed him? Forgetting who\u2019s in that mask doesn\u2019t mean forgetting about his tracers. Love how annoying Spidey is here, tho. Our dynamic duo are off to Teaneck, NJ, and the home of, no kidding, Jackson Wheele, aka Big Wheel. Spider-Man protests that Wheele isn\u2019t a bad guy anymore (As we saw, a little, in SMU V2 12<\/a>), and he wants to just go talk to him. But as he approaches the door to the house, Big Wheel bolts, yelling that he can\u2019t go back to jail, so it\u2019s a fight whether Spider-Man likes it or not. They manage to stop him in 2 pages (It\u2019s just BIG WHEEL and they\u2019re 2 heroes), and that leads them to\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fraction has such a good take on Peter. A shame he didn\u2019t get to do more of it. Why couldn\u2019t he have been in the \u201cbrain trust???\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tony having essentially the same good hearted but shortsighted attitude toward Spider-Man that he did in Civil War is interesting. It seems noteworthy that he\u2019s not raging mad at Spidey all the time once JMS is out of the picture. Well, Tony talks his way right through some rich girl\u2019s birthday party, and then he\u2019s down the basement with her dad. And he\u2019s the thing: It\u2019s the girl from New Avengers 7, who got kidnapped by the Wrecker, and her dad\u2019s collection of super stuff is why Tony is here. Tony is already explaining that they really can\u2019t let this go, and he\u2019d like to bring the guy in to help them with their investigation rather than arrest him, when he finds the guy wearing pieces of no less than 6 Spider-Man villain costumes (But, crucially, not the Sinister Six, just a couple of them and others). Then we skip ahead via a text box that says \u201cThis was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019d sure be a shame if something happened to turn Tony\u2019s life completely upside down\u2026 maybe in the block after next, like. Humorously, comics being comics, that event has already happened when this issue comes out\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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