This week ’s unvanquishable Iron Man # 600 is not the first comic in which Brian Michael Bendis has bid adieu to Marvel , the long completion of a journey that started deep last year with theshocking newsthat the writer was jumping ship to DC Comics . But it is the very last , very wordy end to Bendis ’ time at Marvel .
Bendis ’ goodbyes in the likes of Jessica Jones and Spider - Man were personal occasion — they were , after all , quality he ’d helped make . Invincible Iron Man # 600 is rather more like an endurance run through a checklist of plot of ground lines built up over the last few yr of Iron Man storytelling , not just in the pages of Invincible but in Civil War II , Infamous Iron Man , and more . No less than17 creative person and coloristsjoin Bendis and letterer Clayton Cowles in the deferred payment , many contributing just handfuls of Page throughout the proceeds , and Bendis manage to barrel through as many potential idle ends as he can , clearing the path forincoming writer Dan Slottto take the wheel where he can and closing off electric arc where he ca n’t .
The filmy background of the takings have in mind that , at times , Invincible Iron Man # 600 is an almost perplexing slog of gag law , tripping up over itself as it jump-start from one measure to the next — and depend on your taste for Bendis ’ trademark reams of duologue ( for the most part bear through the framing twist of narration from theAI clone of himself Tony built to guide Riri Williams during her journey as Ironheart ) , the sheer density of it may make a cumbersome read even more perilous . But give just how profoundly intertwined in late storytelling Bendis has been , for not just the earth of Iron Man but Marvel at great , it feels appropriate that his genuinely final issue for the foreseeable futurity is a madcap dash of dot the “ i”s and crossing the “ t”s .
So much actually take place in Invincible Iron Man # 600 that it feels like a staggeringly unmanageable vista to process it all . The recently restore Tony , who was in a coma in the Wake Island ofCivil War IIand then enigmatically missing thereafter , is awake again , and also bald . Apparently the ever - tinkering Mister Stark has spent years pluck his own desoxyribonucleic acid like he has his armor , which have in mind instead of perishing during the finale of Civil War II , he merely went into a full body hard - reboot , which includes hairsbreadth loss ! Rhodey , a.k.a . the fallen zep War Machine , who died back at the startle of Civil War II , is brought back to life after Tony does a standardised “ reboot ” process for him ( he also loses his hair , because , reasons ) .
Meanwhile , Leonardo Da Vinci — the existent one , and , because this is Marvel , one of the original founding father of SHIELD centuries ago — enter Miles Morales and Riri Williams into his secret new organization designed to pretend in SHIELD ’s place . And the Red Hood , possessed by Dormammu , prepares to begin a hostile coup d’etat of Stark Industries , only to be disrupt by Doctor Doom — who I should also name , if you ’re not keeping up , has been acting as Tony ’s substitute in the viewing of Civil War II , complete with his own doomified Iron Man suit — and the new returned Tony and Rhodey . And then , picking up on a anterior storyline in Invincible , Tony ’s Fatherhood — his real Fatherhood , not Howard Stark , a hidden Hydra dual agent who was believed killed by Tony ’s underground SHIELD agent mother — also show up ; he ’s promptly detained by Tony and his ever - growing - gang of armoured protagonist in what is perhaps the brusque and clumsiest of attempt at resolution in the matter .
That ’s barely scrape up what goes on in this book , and it ’s enough for five or 10 volume , let alone a exclusive , bumper - size , 42 - pageboy one . Given that there has been plenty of time to machinate for Bendis ’ departure — even aside from the unfortunate extraneous circumstances of his hospitalization deep last class , dramatized in his final issue of Spider - Man latterly — that all this was deliver for his final outlet is almost baffling to comprehend . But above the ocean of muddled plotting , there dwell the ever - present recital from the Tony AI , a intermediation on the random , joyful hydrophobia of human life that becomes clearly less the thinking of an egotistical hologram and more Bendis ’ last content to readers .
For the last few year , Tony ’s life has been sheer hell — a disorderly mess of bedlam that , in many way , feels quintessentially Tony Stark . Now that Bendis has taken stock of that pandemonium , and embraced it , it ’s up to a young team to nibble and choose what to work up on and what to let slip by when it comes to Iron Man ’s future . And so end the legacy of one of Marvel ’s most prolific originative minds in recent memory , for better or worse .
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