International Iron Man Vol. 1

by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev

In this series, we see flashbacks of Tony in his 20's with a girl that impacted his life and it's mixed in with Tony in the present trying to fights his birth parents. I wonder if there is going to be more of Tony interacting with his Ex because she was in the first half of the book, but wasn't really needed for him finding his Birth Parents.

I'm not a fan of big changes made to a character's origin, since most of the time it's a new author just wanting to make a change for the sake of change or to do a shake up in there time of writing a superhero series.

But, this was done well and I don't hate it. Towards the end of this series, we see how Tony's birth parents met and their story. I liked that that his parents weren't some established character or any big name. I laughed when Tony read the documents and he said over and over "Not the Red Skull."

We see Howard Stark adopting Tony which at first looks like selfish reasons, but in the flashback you can see Howard did love Tony. Maria Stark looks like she loved Tony right away.

I don't know what the effects of this change is going to have on Tony going forward but I'm not opposed to reading more on this story line.

Overall this book was good for a reveal a superhero's parents type of story.