Iron Age: Omega #1: Review

Oct 2011
Rob Williams, Rebekah Isaacs

Story Name:

Iron Age Omega

Review & Comments

Rating:
4 stars

Iron Age: Omega #1 Review by (August 27, 2021)
Comments: One-shot wrap up of THE IRON AGE, returning us to the writer/artist team that did THE IRON AGE: ALPHA. Story takes place between IRON MAN #170 and 171. Johnny Storm was (apparently) killed in Fantastic Four #587 a few months before this story; he returned in FF #600. Tony mentions the “Rumble in the Jungle,” the heavyweight boxing match between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman on October 30, 1974.

Review: And this wraps up a fairly decent mini-event with a surprising emphasis on the importance of teamwork and self-esteem for something that isn’t an all-ages (read: kids) comic. Some of the plot threads get a bit tangled (how were Tony and Hank able to get the time machine running? Why were the heroes able to defeat Dark Phoenix? What happens to the dead Tony Stark?) but they are easy to overlook in the excitement. So…enjoyable little time-hopping tale with a happy ending (unless you are the dead Tony Stark).





 

Synopsis / Summary / Plot

Iron Age: Omega #1 Synopsis by T Vernon
The child Donald Birch sees a vision of an old man he does not recognize as his aged self and his mother doesn’t believe him….

Tony Stark is trapped in the past by the destruction of the time machine (at the end of IRON AGE #3). He is living in a secluded house trying to recreate the device but things go wrong and it explodes, burning the house….

In the present, just as Birch brings Phoenix back from the past before Tony’s eyes, another Iron Man, plus Cyclops, Human Torch, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Dazzler, and Captain Britain emerge from the time portal to battle Birch’s robots. Birch is surprised: this has happened multiple times but now one of them is missing….

In the past, Tony gets in touch with Hank Pym, finally deciding he needs help. They reconstruct the machine and Tony heads through time to assemble all of the heroes he’s aided in the search whose pictures were displayed in Birch’s lab at the beginning. He hopes, by leaving Pym in the past to help run the machine, that Birch will be confused by the unexpected….

Then Phoenix, enraged at being manipulated in time kills the Iron Man who came via the machine and Birch again commands his robots to fire on her and increase her power. Hank arrives as Yellowjacket as Phoenix destroys the robots. The heroes all fire on Phoenix and she collapses into unconsciousness. Birch dies from a combination of his cancer and his shock at the failure of his scheme. Tony thanks all of the heroes and they return to their own times….

That night, by arrangement, they all meet for a reunion, to remember their one-time teaming and to drink to the memory of the absent Johnny Storm….



Rebekah Isaacs
John Livesay
Andres Mossa
Ariel Olivetti (Cover Penciler)
Ariel Olivetti (Cover Inker)
Ariel Olivetti (Cover Colorist)
Letterer: Dave Sharpe.
Editor: Thomas Brennan. Editor-in-chief: Axel Alonso.

Characters

Listed in Alphabetical Order.

Cyclops
Cyclops

(Scott Summers)
Human Torch
Human Torch

(Johnny Storm)
Iron Fist
Iron Fist

(Danny Rand)
Iron Man
Iron Man

(Tony Stark)
Luke Cage
Luke Cage

(Power Man)

Plus: Captain Britain (Brian Braddock), Phantom (Donald Birch), Phoenix (Jean Grey).

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