Ultimate Iron Man Vol 2 [Import] [Paperback]

Orson Scott Card (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Comics (2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078511856X
• ISBN-13: 978-0785118565
• Product Dimensions: 1 x 1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,238,650 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Orson Scott Card is the bestselling author best known for the classic Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and other novels in the Ender universe. Most recently, he was awarded the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in Young Adult literature, from the American Library Association. Card has written sixty-one books, assorted plays, comics, and essays and newspaper columns. His work has won multiple awards, including back-to-back wins of the Hugo and the Nebula Awards-the only author to have done so in consecutive years. His titles have also landed on 'best of' lists and been adopted by cities, universities and libraries for reading programs. The Ender novels have inspired a Marvel Comics series, a forthcoming video game from Chair Entertainment, and pre-production on a film version. A highly anticipated The Authorized Ender Companion, written by Jake Black, is also forthcoming.Card offers writing workshops from time to time and occasionally teaches writing and literature at universities.Orson Scott Card currently lives with his family in Greensboro, NC.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Two major flaws make this a weak story, February 17, 2011

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultimate Iron Man Vol 2 (Paperback)

One thing that is dislike in any story, comics books included, is when the hero character is made largely indestructible. This effectively eliminates most of the tension, because you know that the hero's power will protect him and there is no great physical danger. Therefore, I dislike the new plot device of having Tony Stark; the man in the Iron Man suit, being able to re-grow new limbs and recover from horrific injuries. In the original stories, Stark suffered from a serious heart condition and he was kept alive by the chest plate of his Iron Man armor. It was this vulnerability that made him more human a hero rather than an all-powerful super hero. This goes back to the plot device of the need to invent kryptonite in the Superman stories, for if the hero has no weaknesses then there is no real tension in the story.
I also took a strong dislike to the Obadiah, his presence annoys you in a manner similar to the Jar Jar Binks character of "Star Wars Episode I." He is whinny, a bit nasty, totally self-serving and often gets in the way. These are two very serious flaws in the story and they overwhelmed all the good characteristics.