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Iron Man [Paperback]

Robert Greenberger (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)


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Iron Man September 25, 2009
"Iron Man", starring Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow, was one of the biggest films of 2008. "Iron Man" is one of Marvel's most popular comic book characters ever, and the long-awaited blockbuster film version was a huge hit with fans! When billionaire industrialist and genius inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his hi-tech suit of armor to become...Iron Man! This brand new, original novel goes beyond the movie story to continue the adventures of Tony Stark!


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"* "The trailer kicked several shades of ass... Everything we're seeing from this movie is getting us very excited" Empire. * "I've loved everything I've seen out of this production so far... Can't wait" Ain't It Cool News"

About the Author

Robert Greenberger is the creator of Comics Scene, the first national magazine covering comic books, comic strips, and animation. He has worked for DC Comics and Gist Communications, and he served as director of publishing operations for Marvel Comics. Greenberger is the author of numerous novels, including adventures set in the Star Trek universe, and is the news editor for the trendsetting online popular culture site ComicMix. He lives with his wife, Deb, in Fairfield, Connecticut. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Titan; paperback / softcover edition (September 25, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 184576918X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845769185
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

More About the Author

A writer, editor, and project manager, Robert Greenberger has been working in publishing since 1980. A lifelong fan of comics and science fiction, he watched dreams become reality when he first joined Starlog Press in 1980. There, he created Comics Scene which he edited during its initial run. In 1984, he moved to DC Comics where he worked as an editor or administrator until 2000, earning plaudits for his work on the Star Trek comic book. After a brief sojourn to the Internet, he returned to comics in 2001, this time working as an executive at Marvel Comics. This turned out to be a stormy, frustrating year and in 2002 he returned to DC as a senior editor in their growing collected editions department. In 2006, he left DC and found himself having the time of his life as Managing Editor at Weekly World News unitl its clueless management shuttered the paper.

Since then he has been a freelance writer, working on media tie-in properties, original fiction, non-fiction for your young adults and adults, and whatever else has come his way.

Currently, he writes a weekly op-ed column for the Fairfield Patch and a semi-monthly column for Westfield Comics. He makes his home in Connecticut where he is a Fairfield representative to the Greater Bridgeport Regional Planning Agency. For more, check out his website: www.bobgreenberger.com.

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very competent and readable, February 2, 2011
If you liked Iron Man, the movie, you'll like the novel Femmes Fatales by Robert Greenberger. It occupies a similar territory with its narrative and inside the head of Stark Industries and Tony Stark himself.

Iron Man was, as a comic book character, never terribly exciting to me. But the life given by Robert Downey Jr's portrayal is staggering. A man inside a suit is, after all, something any of us can begin to imagine.

Stark - with his magnetised chest-plate has an Achilles heart and an Achilles heel - his eye for the ladies. They don't work well together. This novel is all about his vulnerability to that and it weaves in a modern terrorist narrative that is very much the rage given world events. It works well, as does the shared billing for Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. This organisation is credibly drawn given its under-staffing and bureaucracy.

What does not work so well is the HYDRA organisation. Although the details are handled well, the motivation, structure and management all seem unbelievable. But it is fiction, and it's not putting in for the Nobel Prize for Literature, so we can let that ride this time.

Greenberger keeps it skimming along well, balancing action and character development, combining the ingredients that made the movie work so well and not insulting your intelligence. It is a promising start if there are more of these to come.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, January 11, 2010
This book was interesting and a nice read. My favorite character was Madame Masque (who doesnt use sex as a weapon, unlike what a review said). She is very smart and intriguing.
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1.0 out of 5 stars An Iron Man novel for the Harlequin Romance enthusiast, April 18, 2010
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A short, but sweet review:

I might have been expecting too much, but this Iron Man novel did NOT have:

1. Strong characterization, only pedestrian ones
2. Much mention of Tony Stark's super technology
3. Fights with Super-Villains, only several fights with Hydra lackeys
4. An awesome climax; it was ho-hum and dangling....

There was way too much redundant focus on the 2 female villains.

I was rooting hard for this one, especially with Robert Greenberger's comics background....but perhaps next time.




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