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Iron Man 2: Operation A.I.M.

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In the 1960's, Marvel Comics did these series of comics called "Tales of Suspence" which featured team-ups by Iron Man and Captain America. They were great stories and now Greg Cox gives us such a story here in OPERATION A.I.M. Guest starring War Machine and the Black Panther, this is an exciteing adventure story that takes us to various points around the Marvel Universe and ends with an explosive climax that will leave you wanting more, I hope Greg writes more Marvel novels in the future, he's a great writer.

When I first heard that Marvel Comics was licensing their characters for use in full-length novels, I was hesitant -- after all, in the wrong hands, a comic-based novel could be little more than a bad joke, featuring marketable characters wrapped around weak stories.

While I was glad to be proven wrong in several instances, "Operation A.I.M." confirmed my worst fears. This novel is poorly-written trite, with heavy-handed exposition and simplistic dialogue. Reading this book was an exercise in the worst sense of the term, and I felt ripped-off in the end.

My only solace is that I've read some of the better Marvel Comics novelizations, so I know they're not all this bad. But if "Operation A.I.M." had been the first title I'd read, I wonder if I would have even given the others a chance.

I admit I'm not a huge Iron Man fan, but this book really caught my eye. I figured reading it would be a good introduction to his character, but if this book is ANY indication of what the comic is like...let's just say I'm dissappointed. The book's plotline was WAY too simple! As a matter of fact, it seemed like just a petty excuse to write some nifty battle scenes between numerous villains. The book goes something like this: MODOK is trying to reconstruct the Cosmic Cube, and he needs different components for it. As a result of this, he sends out adaptoids of old villains to retreive them. Iron Man, War Machine, Cap, and Black Panther split up and try to prevent this from happening. After each one of them has had their battle (which takes over 100 pages) they meet up back at Stark Enterprises and battle MODOK. The end. Greg Cox's writing IS clean and fluid...but his plotlines lack punch. Bottom line: if your looking for a good Marvel novel, look somewhere else!

I just finished reading this GREAT book. I think that Greg Cox is a superb author. His skills for writing books is better that any author that I've ever read before. He describes his scenes, characrters, and everything else in the book so fluently. This book is action-packed, and still, at the same time, a love story too. While I was reading this story I could understand every last bit of it and I never got lost in this sttory either. I can't wait to read another one of Greg Cox's books. ~Denis Abando

I am the biggest fan of Iron Man, but this book was very disappointing! I am a huge fan of the comics and when I read this book i felt that the writers just didn't even try to write a good book. There was too much action and not enough plot. The writers did not bother to describe the charactors. The story did not have enough of the main charator [Iron Man] and focused more on War Machine and Caption A. The story was loose and had too much going on at once. The book jumped around and didn't stay with the charactors.

While Greg Cox's first Iron Man novel was passable and somewhat entertaining this book was a complete weaste of time. There really was no plot at all and what story he did make of this mess was so simplistic it made me sick. I skipped huge chunks of this story and still feel as though I missed nothing. To give an example of how bad it is Iron Man contempates to himself numerous tricks the enemies may be doing then dismisses them only for them to come true. THis happens EVERY CHAPTER and it was so predictable it was just awful. I can't think of a single good thing to say about this novel.