Last Week’s Comics Tonight

Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past week. I’ve enjoyed several comics written by Matt Fraction, so I gave this a go — even though I’ve barely read any Iron Man comics since I was… hm… I may actually never have been reading Iron Man comics ever? I mean, I read Avengers and stuff, but never the Iron Man title. But… like… is that what Stark looks like now? Or, I mean, 15 years ago? It’s just odd. And the book is pretty dull. The entire thing has one super duper villain that’s plotting against Iron Man, but it’s so… stupid? And then Fraction spends a lot of time on fake drama like the above, possibly to divert attention from “The Mandarin” being a horribly boring villain. But back to Larroca’s artwork — the most fascinating thing about the book is the way Stark’s nose changes size all the time. I mean, it’s generally pretty big, but sometimes it’s 2x the size. Which is something you see often when artists are snapping reference photos too close up, which again happens when they use…