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Ironheart (2018-2019) (Single Issues)
Ironheart (2018-2019) #2
Ironheart is caught between her need for independence and her obligations at M.I.T., and when an old friend is kidnapped, she needs to make some tough decisions. Luckily, she’s got a brand-new A.I. system on her side!
25 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 16, 2019
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About the author
Eve L. Ewing
102 books1,215 followersDr. Eve Louise Ewing is a writer and a sociologist of education from Chicago. Ewing is a prolific writer across multiple genres. Her 2018 book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism & School Closings on Chicago's South Side explores the relationship between the closing of public schools and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community.
Ewing's first collection of poetry, essays, and visual art, Electric Arches, was published by Haymarket Books in 2017. Her second collection, 1919, tells the story of the race riot that rocked Chicago in the summer of that year. Her first book for elementary readers, Maya and the Robot, is forthcoming in 2020 from Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Her work has been published in many venues, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, and the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, curated by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States. With Nate Marshall, she co-wrote the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, produced by Manual Cinema and commissioned by the Poetry Foundation. She also currently writes the Champions series for Marvel Comics and previously wrote the acclaimed Ironheart series, as well as other projects.
Ewing's first collection of poetry, essays, and visual art, Electric Arches, was published by Haymarket Books in 2017. Her second collection, 1919, tells the story of the race riot that rocked Chicago in the summer of that year. Her first book for elementary readers, Maya and the Robot, is forthcoming in 2020 from Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Her work has been published in many venues, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, and the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, curated by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States. With Nate Marshall, she co-wrote the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, produced by Manual Cinema and commissioned by the Poetry Foundation. She also currently writes the Champions series for Marvel Comics and previously wrote the acclaimed Ironheart series, as well as other projects.
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January 18, 2019
First of all, can I just say that I love Natalie? (If you don’t know which Natalie I’m referring to here, go back and read the last issue, it’s worth it!). She was introduced in the last issue, but it was here that she really got to shine. Both with her sass and her skills. She’s a perfect complement to Riri’s style and ability set. I know that sounds like it should be a given, but that doesn’t always seem to be the case.
This was an interesting issue, on the whole. While some heroes of Ironheart’s age struggle with the concept of juggling being a hero and a teenager, Riri seems to be having a harder time defining where the line should be drawn. As in, she’s so immersed in her work, both the tech and the superhero part, that she’s basically neglecting everything else.
I think in the next few issues we’ll be seeing a couple of the other characters step up and try to push her into relaxing a bit more. Though I could be wrong. The girl’s a genius, so if anybody can figure out a work/life balance on her own…it’s her.
This was an interesting issue, on the whole. While some heroes of Ironheart’s age struggle with the concept of juggling being a hero and a teenager, Riri seems to be having a harder time defining where the line should be drawn. As in, she’s so immersed in her work, both the tech and the superhero part, that she’s basically neglecting everything else.
I think in the next few issues we’ll be seeing a couple of the other characters step up and try to push her into relaxing a bit more. Though I could be wrong. The girl’s a genius, so if anybody can figure out a work/life balance on her own…it’s her.
January 19, 2019
As I hoped, this issue took off running after the necessary exposition. NATALIE is a great character and a much needed one for Riri to play off of and this issue ends with a quite problematic “villain” as opposed to the more run-of-the-mill thieves encountered earlier in the story.
January 25, 2019
Natalie!! I love my daughter Riri 🤧
December 18, 2019
Riri is cool bye
February 10, 2019
Another great story starring RiRi Williams as Ironheart.
I love how the author has such an incredible balance when writing about a black teenager that is super smart, yet awkward and trying to figure out this superhero thing.
If you read RiRi in Ironman's story, Tony Stark had installed an AI into her armor, and in doing so he was able to help her navigate all of the ups and downs of fighting crime plus improving on her suit. Now that she is ensconced in MIT, she has another AI in her suit which happens to be her deceased best friend Natalie (who was killed during the Ironman intro of Ironheart written by Michael Bendis, who is now working for DC Comics). RiRi is a loner, she doesn't have a lot of friends, you can count them on one hand, I don't even know if she even has 5 friends, so Natalie was her ace and so it would figure that she would create her into an AI. She does have another friend at home and his name is Xavier and her mom. After helping out the local store owners from getting rob, telling off the Dean at her school, RiRi heads home and only to discover the one nice girl name Daija who befriended her in High School has gone missing, with very little coverage (and this is what we see today when it is Black and Brown people that go missing).
RiRi is determined to get to the bottom and find Daija hopefully alive but on a mission to stop another robbery, she has found herself what can only be described as something out of the twilight zone. In discovering the thief is a child what she will soon unlock is a mystery that may possibly have corrupt political ties, that somehow involve children and her missing friend Daija.
I can't wait for Issue #3 that will hit stands next month. I love how the author is writing true to face stories about POC. Marvel made a great move in hiring Eve L. Ewing to pen Ironheart.
Well Until My Next Review...Ciao Bellas!
I love how the author has such an incredible balance when writing about a black teenager that is super smart, yet awkward and trying to figure out this superhero thing.
If you read RiRi in Ironman's story, Tony Stark had installed an AI into her armor, and in doing so he was able to help her navigate all of the ups and downs of fighting crime plus improving on her suit. Now that she is ensconced in MIT, she has another AI in her suit which happens to be her deceased best friend Natalie (who was killed during the Ironman intro of Ironheart written by Michael Bendis, who is now working for DC Comics). RiRi is a loner, she doesn't have a lot of friends, you can count them on one hand, I don't even know if she even has 5 friends, so Natalie was her ace and so it would figure that she would create her into an AI. She does have another friend at home and his name is Xavier and her mom. After helping out the local store owners from getting rob, telling off the Dean at her school, RiRi heads home and only to discover the one nice girl name Daija who befriended her in High School has gone missing, with very little coverage (and this is what we see today when it is Black and Brown people that go missing).
RiRi is determined to get to the bottom and find Daija hopefully alive but on a mission to stop another robbery, she has found herself what can only be described as something out of the twilight zone. In discovering the thief is a child what she will soon unlock is a mystery that may possibly have corrupt political ties, that somehow involve children and her missing friend Daija.
I can't wait for Issue #3 that will hit stands next month. I love how the author is writing true to face stories about POC. Marvel made a great move in hiring Eve L. Ewing to pen Ironheart.
Well Until My Next Review...Ciao Bellas!
January 22, 2019
I liked this issue a lot more than the first one. I feel it flowed better, and got the point across of Riri juggling her personal life with her super-hero life, and also learning where they merge and where they don't have to. The scene where her AI is trying to help her accept her limitations/vulnerabilities was really nicely done here, where last issue it felt overdone. The reminder this time was just right.
The flashback to her freshman year did a number on my emotions and the climax set the stakes higher than last issue's "government officials are in danger" so I'm actually really excited about this arc now.
35.25/50
The flashback to her freshman year did a number on my emotions and the climax set the stakes higher than last issue's "government officials are in danger" so I'm actually really excited about this arc now.
35.25/50
May 16, 2019
Fantastic continuation of issue #1's introduction to the character. I love Riri and the world that she lives in. I want more scenes of her with her family, her neighbors, pretty much everyone in her life other than the dean that keeps walking into her lab.
February 3, 2019
I like
Interestingness AI nice artwork. Keep it coming she is coming along fine. A lot less annoying and arrogant. Good job Eve
Interestingness AI nice artwork. Keep it coming she is coming along fine. A lot less annoying and arrogant. Good job Eve
February 28, 2019
Riri learns that one of her friends is missing. My tweet is featured in this issue!
July 24, 2020
80/100
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