Iron Man
Extremis

Wow. I wish Marvel would put out more Iron Man prose novels. This was different from the movie novelizations, which I also loved, but in a good way. I absolutely love the character of Tony Stark even MORE after reading this, and THAT is a major accomplishment after the movies sucked me in. I've tried......more

This is a pretty good novelization of the Warren Ellis/Adi Granov graphic story originally published in the comics and then collected as a graphic novel. There are a couple of things I thought were a little weak (Tony seems to be outsmarted by a trio of stereotypical rednecks, for example, and the f......more

A quick, entertaining, light (but not too light) book that knows what it is (uh, it's a prose novel based on a comic book character - also a movie franchise juggernaut - retelling or reimagining a comic book story) and what it isn't (a Booker Prize short list selection). If it hadn't come into my ha......more

This was a fast read. It is a novelized adaptation of the fourth or fifth 'volume' [series] of Iron Man published by Marvel Comics [I will go with fifth 'volume]. In this 'reboot' of the Iron Man series, we discover Tony Stark was injured in Afghanistan instead of Vietnam and had to escape terrorist......more

Interesting story that moves right along with enough action to keep me invested and also some interesting insight into Tony Stark's personal life, philosophy and method for running Stark Enterprises post-weapons manufacturing. Also interesting to see the Invincible Iron Man get clobbered in the clim......more