Invincible Iron Man #9

Written by Brian Michael Bendis

Penciled by Mike Deodoto

Cover by Mike Deodoto

Published May 4, 2016

   Tony Stark is missing. After missing the quarterly investors conference call, several of his company's investors are trying to find him and growing frustrated. Meanwhile at MIT, child prodigy Riri Williams has reverse engineered and built an Iron Man suit out of spare parts. Unfortunately for her, the university has footage of her in the lab. She opens the door of her dorm room dressed in the super suit and effectively resigns from her college career.

   Back in Osaka, where Tony was last seen before a warehouse exploded (back in issue #8) Rhodes meets with Yukio at her nightclub looking for clues on Tony's whereabouts. She said she has no idea what he's talking about, and Rhodes orders the authorities to raid the club. A few of her ninjas pop out but they escape. Meanwhile a mystery man shows up and pushes her wheelchair out of the bar, aiding her escape.

   While all of this is going on, Dr. Amara Perera continues her experiments on lab animals (whom, by the way, she keeps accidentally killing) while trying to cure Alzheimers when in walks Dr. Victor Von Doom. He tells her it's time to move the experiments to humans upon which she asks why he doesn't just use magic to cure this disease. There's some back and forth banter which concludes with her obviously lending it some heavy thought.

   Finally we see Col Rhodes who's been waiting for this mystery man, when in he walks. It turns out that this disguised individual is none other than Tony Stark, using some special software he's recently develop. Not long after he reveals himself to Rhodey though, there's a knock at the door as a certain "Mister Franco" is being called.

   I enjoy this series. I know somewhere down the line they really pump up the Riri thing and I guess that's ok but I'm gonna miss Tony Stark being the main subject of this series. I guess for now I'm just along for the ride. I give it an 8/10

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