Iron Man 2020: Robot Revolution - iWolverine

Tony Stark: Iron Man (Collected Editions) #5.2

by Dana Schwartz, Vita Ayala, Danny Lore

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COLLECTING: 2020 RESCUE (2020) 1-2, 2020 IRONHEART (2020) 1-2, 2020 iWOLVERINE (2020) 1-2

Genres: Marvel, Comics, Graphic Novels

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2020

About the author

Dana Schwartz was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. She attended Brown University where she studied biology and public policy before realizing that she would only be happy if she tried to be a writer. While in college, she created the viral parody twitter account @GuyInYourMFA. Dana worked as a writer for Mental Floss, The Observer, and Entertainment Weekly, with additional bylines for GQ, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, and NewYorker.com.

Dana is the host and creator of the hit history podcast Noble Blood. She also writes for television. She lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

A collection of completely superfluous tie in books.

The book closest to being part of the story is Rescue 2020. Pepper Potts goes to collect the DNA of Tony Stark's parents in order to bring Tony back to life. Yeah, it doesn't make a lick of sense how this would work. It doesn't matter anyway, because after she gets it, they don't use the DNA anyway.

Ironheart 2020 is more of an Outlawed tie in than a Iron Man 2020 one. She whines the whole time about how she can no longer legally be a hero. She fights a random Stark employee who is corrupting A.I. That's your lame tie in to Iron Man 2020.

iWolverine is the worst of the 3 miniseries. It brings back Albert and Elsie Dee from Wolverine's book in the 90's. I barely remember who these characters are and I read those comics back in the day. At least Marvel brought back Larry Hama to write this unnecessary toilet paper of a comic. The two of them fight the Reavers and some Asian mafia in Madripoor. Roland Boschi is a terrible artist who keeps finding work at Marvel.

[Gianfranco Mancini · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Good:

Rescue 2020: it was so nice to read a "family friendly" comic book illustrated by Jacen Burrows instead of the usual disturbing gore-fest for a time... type artist name/crossed/providence on Google or another web search engine and look for yourself if you dare.



IWolverine 2020: i loved a lot Larry Hama's 90s run on Wolverine and his new story included here starring Albert, Elsie-Dee and the Reavers, was a blast of an hilarious read for me.

The Bad:



Ironheart 2020: not bad at all, but this storyline  was a real unnecessary tie-in, and having never read a Riri Williams comic in my life I just felt like arriving late to the party.

The Ugly:



Larry Hama's come-back tale to his characters created 30 years ago deserved far better artworks.

'Nuff said.

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Considerably better than the main event title Iron Man 2020: Robot Revolution, only 1/3 of the content here is the story of Albert and Elsie Dee in Madripoor which was a fun throwback but the other 2 mini-arcs involving Rescue and Ironheart were actually much more interesting. I guess Terminator Wolverine gets the cover and title, though, because $ales.

Here's a taste of what's inside:





I'm glad the event has been somewhat redeemed for me by these side-tales, now on to Iron Man 2020: Robot Revolution - Force Works...

[Allan Quinn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn't see the point in these side stories.
They did not add anything to the main story arc.
Ironheart story seemed to diminish the robot revolution to me as all the humans in the story were acting normal,not the way I expect the public to act during a robot revolution!
Wolverine story was ok but didn't add much.

[Sara · Rating 2 out of 5]

I expected more when I read iWolverine title.:(
But the Rescue part was good

[Alex Sarll]

Loose tie-ins to the robot revolution story. Two feature characters whose links to the Iron Man mythos mean you can hardly leave them out – Riri Williams, sometime Iron Man and subsequently Ironheart; and Pepper Potts, AKA Rescue. The third, most tenuous of the lot, features Albert the robot Wolverine double and his robot kid sidekick Elsie-Dee, detritus of some long-ago storyline and exactly the sort of batshit idea for which I love sprawling superhero universes. I don't mind the utter superfluity to the main plot which all three stories share; that comes with the territory, and demanding crossovers 'matter' is a mug's game. But there's a general lack of spark to the stories, an ugliness and/or confusion to much of the art, which leaves it all feeling very 'will this do?'

[César Rodríguez Cuenda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Excepto las historia de pepper, me sobra todo. Que algo ocurra a la vez que iron man 2020 no quiere decir que tenga que ver con iron man 2020. Y además las historias de IronHeart y iWolverine son bastante mediocres. Se salva por la historia de Rescue que ha conseguido que en dos números conecte con el personaje.

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

The escape from Madripoor was fun and the infiltration of a Hydra base was amusing.

[Nicole Westen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Elsie Dee's speech tick bugged the ever loving hell out of me.
Three stars for the Rescue and Ironheart stories. I thought those were pretty good, especially Riri's struggle between being a superhero and helping people in trouble, and obeying the law that teens can't be superheros. Both are the right things to do, one morally and the other legally, but they are in direct opposition to each other. So how do you do the right thing when both choices are the right thing, but you can only choose one, at the expense of the other.

[Garrett · Rating 3 out of 5]

More background of the 2020 Robot Revolution - We get a Japanese revenge story about the Robot Wolverine, Albert, with dependable quest elements and big action displays, a story about Pepper Potts in the Rescue armor - which needed more depth or needs to be explored better in a later story. The Ironheart story here is by far my favorite; she has an AI in her life that emulates her deceased friend, and who hasn't wished for that? Don't answer that. That gives her a very profound connection to the AI manipulation & revolution, and the combination of characterization, story and art in this one made it my pick of the collection.

Also? VERY interesting that this would share a plot element with the latest Cory Doctorow. Great minds?

[Ross · Rating 2 out of 5]

Only read this if you're a completist in the 'Iron Man 2020: Robot Revolution' storyline. This collection contains side stories on Rescue and Ironheart that don't really advance the main story, but give you placement of characters usually referenced in the main title.

Why they needed to ressurect these characters from 90's Wolverine issues, I don't know. They don't really have much of a place in current continuity. Maybe just dusted off because they're artificial intelligence...

Bonus:Pierce Albert and Elsie-Dee still haven't upgraded their vocals to remove their speech impediments

[Tyler Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this up being a big Ironheart fan and that story was fairly solid. I like the idea of her A.I running amuck and Riri having to talk her down. The other two stories were fine, but little parts of them bothered me, like Pepper trying to turn Tony’s AI into a living version of him and the god-awful child accent in iWolverine. I wouldn’t say that this is a bad collection of stories but they are pretty mediocre, elevated by characters I enjoy and decent art.

[Beelzefuzz · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was kind of fun getting to revisit Albert and Elsie with Larry Hama, but I forgot how annoying Elsie Dee's word balloons can get with prolonged exposure.
Nothing in here is worth writing home about.

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the Wolverine story. A Hama return to do it right was a nice touch. The Ironheart story was pretty bad. Post-Bendis Riri isn't very good. As part of the Iron Man 2020 overarching story...the connection is pretty loose. The relevance is non-existent. Hamfisted comes to mind.

[Jeff Scatena · Rating 2 out of 5]

you can completely skip this collection and not miss anything of the overriding story. The Rescue issues are not totally useless, but the iWolverine story is an embarrassment and I wish I had just skipped them.

[Terrance · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ironheart is the more intriguing and best written character here. Rescue 2nd. iWolverine, he of the title, is pretty dumb.

[Rhys Causon · Rating 3 out of 5]

When only the Rescue story was worth reading I think three stars is being generous. Honestly the whole Robot Revolution story was a bit of a let down.

[CJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of comics connected by an AI theme. The Ironheart comics were by far the best, woth Rescue in second place. The Wolverine comics were pretty meh.