Tony Stark: Iron Man #10 Review

Writer: Dan Slott and Jim Zub / Artist: Valerio Schiti / Marvel Comics We’re ten issues deep into the ‘Stark Realities’ arc people. Slott is cooking up what I can only summarize as a psychological techno-opera with more depth than any Iron Man title should have. I haven’t been this invested in Tony Stark, like outside of the suit Tony Stark, since the Extremis and Stark Resilient books.

Tony Stark: Iron Man #10 is holding Tony’s psyche hostage behind a one-way mirror and giving the reader popcorn, a beverage, and unprecedented access to the show! Nine out of ten times we see Tony respond to a crisis using the different facets of his life – now each and every one of those parts of him is under attack. At the same time. With no signs of letting up. Writers Dan Slott and Jim Zub have Tony and anyone on his side exposed in issue #10. The way the Stark entourage getting dissected in broad daylight got me wondering if Marvel hit up Wendy Williams to consult.

In the eScape the Motherboard OS is raising hell in the form of Maria Stark. Amanda keeps trying to smack drinks out of Tony’s hand while Howard Stark keeps topping him off. IRL (‘in real life’) Basil aka The Controller is giving these hands to The Wasp, Exo-Squad Rhodey, and the Bain company’s private army. Aaron Stack aka Machine Man is reluctantly pushing past his HK droid politics (KOTOR reference!) to help team Iron Man get the win. On the periphery of all this, way deep in the cut, is a call back to issue #5. Valerio Sc…