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Iron Man: Armor Wars II

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I'm not really seeing any parallels between this and the original Armor Wars storyline. Unless you consider "Tony Stark's nervous system is taken over" to be a similar storyline to "Armor technology is stolen and utilized by villains."
Regardless of the poor title, this collection is reasonably entertaining, but ends poorly.
The primary problem is one thing-
About 1/3 of this volume is dedicated to starting up a storyline with the Mandarin, reclaiming one of his rings, and waking up Fin Fang Foom.
That storyline is not concluded in this volume. This is a serious problem. Either this book could have been thinner, and cheaper, and not teased readers with a storyline that wasn't of consequence, or they could have expanded the volume, and finished the Mandarin's story. Or they could have even made another volume to follow this. As it stands, this was a very frustrating book to finish reading.

I will never get tired of a good, old-fashioned John Byrne story. He is always able to take and insignificant book/character and give it cosmic importance. Where many writers and/or artists have failed to craft an interesting story--John Byrne consistently SUCCEEDS! When you read a John Byrne story, you never want it to end. Thank you, Mr. Byrne for all the years you put into the industry elevating your craft.