Yes, fine, it’s not actually about Iron Man, who doesn’t personally appear within its pages, but then ‘Invincible Mandarin Annual’ just sounds a bit silly.

It seems to be an unwritten rule in Hollywood that the second film in a major motion picture franchise has to be the darker, more introspective entry.

A number of recent Marvel revamps have clearly had one eye on the movie version. You can almost see Marvel editors handing them round a Hollywood pitch meeting and saying ‘how about this?’.

Marvel’s Epic experiment comes to an end with the last issue of John Jackson Miller’s ‘Crimson Dynamo’, a six-issue mini-series that has taken the old ‘Iron Man’ villain in a new direction…

This new comic is so relentlessly masculine that I’ve had to hide the first issue from my weaker, more vulnerable colleagues, for the good of their health…

The reign of writer Mike Grell, best known for his mammoth 80 issue run on DC’s Green Arrow, has only just begun, but the change in tone is palpable…

‘The
Avengers’ is a tainted brand. Not only does the Marvel Comic featuring the
‘World’s Greatest Heroes’ bear the same name as a recent box office
disaster…

Mike Grell’s run is now well underway and as a result we can see a little more of what he has got planned for the book.