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Iron Man And The Armor Wars #3

Oct 2009
Joe Caramagna, Craig Rousseau

Iron Man And The Armor Wars #3 cover

Story Name:

How I Learned to Love the Bomb


Synopsis

Iron Man And The Armor Wars #3 synopsis by T Vernon
Rating: 4 stars
General Rostov, the Red Barbarian, opens the casket recovered from the American sub and gathers his henchmen around it: Darkstar, Ursa Major, the Gremlin, and others. The casket contains the corpse of Omega Red but, feeding on the life energy of the other villains, Omega Red regains life and strength as the others pass out from their lives being leeched out. Darkstar objects to the way Rostov treats his minions but he no longer needs them now that he has Omega Red….

At FBI headquarters, Agent Keith Dekker has gotten a full confession from Ivan Krushki (captured last issue) but now they have a report that their stolen aircraft has been located by an FBI copter; Director Stone orders them to hold their fire…

…as the copter fires on the craft carrying Tony Stark in the Iron Man Mark 2 armor and James Rhodes. Just before the missile hits, Iron Man carries Rhodey away from the doomed craft then deposits him in a tall tree because his energy level is dropping quickly. The pursuing FBI copter crashes in the narrow valley and Shellhead returns to rescue the two crewmembers. Tony’s tracking device emits a very loud wail, alerting him to the presence of several armors nearby. He traces the signal to a missile silo, an obvious trap, and is then attacked by Vanguard, wielding a hammer and a sickle, and Fantasma. He is able to defeat both of them before being seized by Omega Red, who wants to drink the blood of a Stark. O-Red batters the rapidly weakening Shellhead around and Vanguard warns against damaging the equipment for the launch but O-Red doesn’t listen. Iron Man blinds the monster with a blast of the Unibeam as the rocket lifts off. Iron Man pursues it, disables the tracking system, and then blows it out of the sky. The power of his armor depleted, he plunges into the ocean. A figure in the Peacekeeper armor rescues him and carries him to the shore. The rescuer reveals himself to be Rhodey—before electrocuting Tony….


 

Review / Commentaries


Iron Man And The Armor Wars #3 Review by (March 4, 2022)
Comments: All Ages title. Cover title is IRON MAN: ARMOR WARS. Story title is a play on the film title DR. STRANGELOVE OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Omega Red died in WOLVERINE: ORIGINS #39; this issue features his revival and return. Odd bit of chronology: Tony mentions his father was alive and running Stark Industries when the Berlin Wall fell (November 1989). Soviet baddies Unicorn and Blind Faith are among the assembled Russian heroes at Omega Red’s revival.

Review: I’m not a regular reader of the X-Men so this was my first encounter with Omega Red and I was stunned. How is this guy not one of Marvel’s greatest villains? He has it all over the weakened Iron Man but would still be formidable if Shellhead were at full power. That and he’s scary as well. Even reviving him is dangerous as the opening pages prove. And then…wait. What? Where does a rocket launch come into this? Did I miss something? Why is there a rocket blasting off in this story? Oh well…the issue also contains an interesting character note: as Tony deals with the FBI copter, he ponders his father’s reputation as a weapons designer and realizes that his own chief goal in life has been to be better than Howard Stark. But then the results of his weapons shocked him so he gave it up and we’ll see what he decides next time. Good issue mainly for the villain.



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Main/1st Story Full Credits

Craig Rousseau
Craig Rousseau
Val Staples
Francis Tsai (Cover Penciler)
Francis Tsai (Cover Inker)
Francis Tsai (Cover Colorist)
Additional Credits
Letterer: Dave Sharpe.
Editor: Nathan Cosby. Editor-in-chief: Joe Quesada.



Characters

All stories. Listed in alphabetical order.

Darkstar
Darkstar

(Laynia Petrovna)
Iron Man
Iron Man

(Anthony Stark)
James Rhodes
James Rhodes

(Rhodey)
Ursa Major
Ursa Major

(Mikhail Uriokovitch Ursus)
Vanguard
Vanguard

(Nicolai Krylenko)
Plus: Fantasma, Omega Red, Red Barbarian.

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