Unlike March, Tony Stark doesn't come roaring in.

[thanekos]

Nor is he a lion, even if he's growing the mane to match in Iron Man Legacy #6.

He's got a reason for not shaving, though: Obadiah Stane's taken his company, Namor's convinced his fellow Illuminati to let Tony go it alone, and all he's got to his name is a set of golf clubs.





the Iron Legion of 2020 AD? subtle, Van Lente, subtle.

(like to know what a Ganglaxus does; something to your neural networks, no doubt.)



Tony Stark, nihilist!

But when his new friend is menaced by a Hangman working the day shift, Tony armors up in one of his older models (that golf bag is like his suitcase, you know), bemoaning its lack of resource efficiency in the process:



Tony Stark, learning planning the hard way!



He discovers that the intelligent designer there has a home, and a sister; skating over to drop him off in Imperio, he even finds some unfortunate parallels between the two of them.

Oh, and then two roughs try to boost his bag, except they're not your average roughs:



Oh no, they don't work for your average crime boss.

Indeed, as Tony crashes seemingly dead into a Yinsen hallucination, we see who they report to:



Now who do you think could supply toughs with weaponry like that, have such control over neighborhoods on the West Coast, and number among themselves someone surnamed Stein?



Yup, those guys!

And yes, they're bringing Seth Voelker and friends into play.

(Love how #7's solicit gives him seperate billing, so that it's ' SIDEWINDER and the SERPENT SOCIETY ')

The next few issues should be fun: Tony'll try to rebuild a neighborhood, the Pride and the Society will try to bring him down, and Jim Rhodes'll have his two cents to say.

Comments

[arilou_skiff]

I like the: "Note to self. Steal Spidey's ideas."

[skalja]

Yeah, Van Lente's hit or miss for me but the riff on Spidey's "I bet x never has to worry about y!" refrain is hilarious.

[arilou_skiff]

I think it also points out that Spidey is in many ways "outside" the regular superhero business. With very few exceptions people don't know a lot about him, even his friends.

[skalja]

I am always amused by scenes in which average citizens or fellow heroes speculate that he must be independently wealthy with a Spider-Cave and millions of dollars' worth of equipment and a butler because it's the only possible way he could do as much as he does.