With the help of Bethany he understands that he's addicted to alcohol and he tries to overcome his addiction. It's not until the last issue of this volume that Tony becomes an alcoholic, ruins his life, decideds to battle the bottle, overcomes, and is back in the game. What I didn't realize is that it's mainly the one issue (the last in this collection) that deals with it.

It is in this storyline that the Tony Stark character was given the deep human elements that will make him timeless.It's amazing to see the change, although I have a feeling that quite a bit of the visual style comes from Bob Layton's inks: if pencils by John Romita Jr. Because it's just stupid bits of fluff, an example of that is Iron Man's boot stops working so he crashes then after looking at his boot goes nope it's ok any flies off.

This is a man that gives other people second chances and that's the most amazing aspect of this character for me. Dave Wallace of the Comics Bulletin said the issues "are too generic and unremarkable to really stand up as great stories today," but said that "each issue is a satisfying story in its own right" and praised "the strong storytelling instincts that are evident from the composition of [Romita's] panels. When comics readers think of Tony Stark, they think of him as a brilliant inventor, an Avenger, and.Stark later receives and agrees to a request for Iron Man to represent his company, Stark International, at a public ceremony and meet with a foreign ambassador. Iron Man faces his most untouchable foe in criminal industrialist Justin Hammer and his literal army of super villians! Stark attempts to escape Hammer's compound by climbing over a wall, but sees that he is on a giant floating island at sea. It wasn't until we reached the half way point where it was clearly shown Tony abusing alcohol and sinking further into addiction. Also, from a fanboy's perspective, there was a bit which sent goosebumps up my spine, when Tony mentions Scott Lang's daughter Cassie.