Invincible Iron Man #11: Review

This is part 4 of the 12-issue story which explains why Iron Man didn't play a bigger role in Dark Reign.

Jarvis is of course also the name of the butler Tony Stark gave to the Avengers along with his town house for their HQ.
JARVIS says the armour designation 1616 doesn't mean Tony has built over 1600 different armours. I figure since P is the 16th letter of the alphabet 1616 just indicates P(epper)P(otts).
Pepper's chest implant was given to her in #3 to help her recover from injuries in #2. Tony says here that it is repulsor-powered. But he said in #4 that it was Rand technology, not Stark-tech. And I assumed that was why it survived the Secret Invasion computer virus.

FuturePharm is where the Extremis virus was developed in Iron Man (2005) #1, and where he infected himself with it in #4.

The villain Maria Hill has discovered there is the Controller, who siphons power from his victims' brains. He debuted way back in #12 of the original Iron Man series. He split the succeeding time about equally between fighting Iron Man and fighting everybody else. he was last seen in the breakout from the Raft in the 1st few issues of the 1st New Avengers series and the Spider-Man: Breakout mini-series.

As well as Tony's friend and AA sponsor, Henry Hellrung was also recently Anthem, leader of The Order who last cameoed in Avengers Initiative #18 during Secret Invasion. He'll be back with his team in Fear Itself: Youth In Revolt.
It sounds as if Tony has brought HAMMER down on Henry's head. I prefer to believe that Tony figured HAMMER would be after Henry as one of his known associates anyway. But he advises Henry to tell Osborn everything, which means his disguise won't be any use any more.

The old Iron Man armour isn't as easy to track by others. Rhodey's Stark-tech armour has built-in advantages in that respect.
Iron Man: Director of SHIELD #33 says War Machine's armour wasn't affected by the Skrull computer virus because Stark deliberately built it from Stane-tech in case of just such a problem with Stark-tech.
Rhodey effectively resigned from the Avengers Initiative in Av:I#16 as he flew off to IM:DoS#33. But he wouldn't be welcomed back now Norman Osborn has taken over anyway.
The Official Iron Man Index says this issue happens after Rhodey's tale in the post-Secret Invasion Dark Reign: New Nation, but before the 2nd War Machine series that it was a prequel to.

Sub-Mariner is part of the Cabal formed by Osborn at the end of Secret Invasion in SI: Dark Reign. Since then in Incredible Hercules #121-123 he and the Atlanteans have fought a war against the Amazons. And then he was last seen in Agents of Atlas (2009) #6-7, where the Agents try to turn him against the Cabal.

***** The rest of the comments after this are an old copy of parts of this comment.

This is part 4 of the 12-issue story which explains why Iron Man didn't play a bigger role in Dark Reign.

Jarvis is of course also the name of the butler Tony Stark gave to the Avengers along with his town house for their HQ.
JARVIS says the armour designation 1616 doesn't mean Tony has built over 1600 different armours. I figure since P is the 16th letter of the alphabet 1616 just indicates P(epper)P(otts).
Pepper's chest implant was given to her in #3 to help her recover from injuries in #2. Tony says here that it is repulsor-powered. But he said in #4 that it was Rand technology, not Stark-tech. And I assumed that was why it survived the Secret Invasion computer virus.

FuturePharm is where the Extremis virus was developed in Iron Man (2005) #1, and where he infected himself with it in #4.

The villain Maria Hill has discovered there is the Controller, who siphons power from his victims' brains. He debuted way back in #12 of the original Iron Man series. He split the succeeding time about equally between fighting Iron Man and fighting everybody else. he was last seen in the breakout from the Raft in the 1st few issues of the 1st New Avengers series and the Spider-Man: Breakout mini-series.