I was pleased where "The Secret Origin of Tony Stark" left our hero, even if the road to that point had grown a bit bumpy over time. And in hindsight, Kieron Gillen could have brought Tony to this point with much less fuss. But regardless, Iron Man #18 kicks off Gillen's second year on the series, and it's showing every sign of being a more memorable and progressive year for Tony Stark than the first.
It's always compelling when Tony reaches one of those phases where he's just come through a humbling experience and struggles to re-devote himself to bettering the world. Having learned that he's adopted and that he has a long-lost brother certainly qualifies as a humbling experience. And as "Iron Metropolitan" begins, the Stark brothers devote themselves to the problem of designing a new type of city that can handle a growing population problem. There'a a nice sense of symmetry with Iron man 3 in the sense that Tony is looking to distance himself from his Iron Man exploits and build a more enduring legacy. This results in him farming off his crime-fighting duties on P.E.P.P.E.R. and becoming almost as much a hermit as the physically handicapped Arno. This pulling back from the world even as he tries to save it should form an interesting personal conflict for Tony.
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