What If? Fallen Son #1

This comic features Part 2 of a special five part back-up story, 'What if the Runaways Became the Young Avengers?' where Iron Lad stands revealed.

T Vernon's comments and review:-

Comments: First story: Follows Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief, as did the canonical FALLEN SON. Tony Stark does not wear the Iron Man armor in the brief bit of time he is in the story. For non-Cap fans out there, Aleksander Lukin is secretly the Red Skull at this time. Cameos include Cloud 9, Ares, Wonder Man, Sentry, Black Widow, Wasp, Wolverine, Iron Fist, Yellowjacket, Thing, Second story: Part 2 of 5.

Review: Typically grim What If? concentrates on the death of a hero, though Tony’s Stark’s right to use that term was debatable during the Civil War. Yeah, things would have been different but not that much different: Secret Invasion is still up next though World War Hulk seems to be missing. And we likely wouldn’t have gotten Bucky Barnes as Captain America, so Ed Brubaker would probably have quit and created more issues of CRIMINAL. And no rebirth like Steve Cap had after he was done being dead. Or maybe we would. Say, they could go back in time and recruit a younger version of Tony Stark! Can’t see any problem with that! [Joke: that’s how they ended Iron Man volume one and it was ignored as soon as the creative team changed.] So: Decent writing, muddy looking art with unattractive and oddly glowing colors. Not one of the best of this occasional series.