Infamous Iron Man by Bendis & Maleev (Infamous Iron Man

by Brian Michael Bendis

Collects Infamous Iron Man (2016) #1-12, Invincible Iron Man (2017) #593-600.

There's a new Iron Man in town, and his name is…Victor Von Doom! The Marvel Universe's greatest villain is no stranger to armor, but now he's trying something new on for heroism. And where Tony Stark failed, Doom will succeed. But what is Victor's master plan? That's what a great number of folks want to know - including Ben Grimm, Pepper Potts and the other Iron Riri Williams! In his heroic quest, Doom faces a cosmic-level adversary - and his most mortal enemy, whom he thought he would never see again! But what is the shocking truth behind Victor's reincarnated mother? When the search for Tony Stark begins, the time comes to decide, once and for all, who will wear the armor of Iron Man!

Genres: Comics

422 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 23, 2023

About the author

A comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For over eight years Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts.

Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.

Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce.

Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly.

Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six.

Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion.

He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.

Reviews

[Max Nathan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really cool premise and exploration of Victor Von Doom. It doesn’t quite deliver on everything it promises because it goes full blown nutzo comic book at the end, but I was entertained. Infamous Iron Man asks the interesting questions, but doesn’t really have any interesting answers.

[Bryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

More of a 3.5/5.
Very strong first 6-7 issues, and then it kinda spins in place. A pretty predictable end reveal if you’ve read anything on Doom’s past and his mother.

I would imagine Marvel Studios will take something from this for Avengers: Doomsday, right?

[Rickey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow, this was such a great concept that went nowhere. Doom trying to be a hero after Secret Wars and he was doing good but not a single hero would let him be one and then all the villains turned on him. Also, Doom seemed very weak throughout this story. It was like he was half-power or something. I would've liked to see him as this Iron Man interacting with Cap, Thor, Spidey, etc., attempting to win them over with his goals but ultimately failing due to their lack of acceptance. I think that would've been a better arc to get him back to regular Doom.

I absolutely LOVED the Mephisto part though! Him pausing the combat to tell the readers why he would not, under any circumstances, allow Doom to even attempt to redeem himself cause of what it would mean to Mephisto's reputation.

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first half of this book is really strong, but then the second half weaves together Ironheart and Iron Man with the Dr Doom story and it all just starts to get messy and fall apart. It's not bad it's just mediocre at that point. But the first 12 issues are so good

[Guy Taylor · Rating 1 out of 5]

Such a good concept… kept waiting for it to deliver anything.

[J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was going to take a lot more than 12 issues to really work as much of a redemption story--it's a tough sale--and it just didn't have the room to do the work.