Iron Man (Marvel Age): The Simple Life

by Fred Van Lente, Rafa Sandoval (Illustrator)

Ambushed by the villainess Jolt, his armor ruined, Tony Stark finds himself trapped in an isolated village run by folks who have chosen to live a peaceful, agrarian 19th century existence...without any technology. With Jolt hot on his trail, what's a tech-dependent hero to do? That's hole up in the blacksmith shed and hammer out an all-new suit of STEAM-POWERED ARMOR! Spotlight is a division of the ABDO Group and features library editions of popular fiction titles. Spotlight editions are printed on high-quality paper and with reinforced library bindings specifically printed for the library market. Grades P-6.

Genres: Graphic Novels

24 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Fred Van Lente is the New York Times-bestselling author of comics as varied as Archer & Armstrong (Harvey Award nominee, Best Series), Taskmaster, MODOK's 11, Amazing Spider-Man, Conan the Avenger, Weird Detective, and Cowboys & Aliens (upon which the 2011 movie was based), as well as the novels Ten Dead Comedians and The Con Artist.

Van Lente also specializes in entertaining readers with offbeat histories with the help of his incredibly talented artists. He has written the multiple-award winning Action Philosophers!, The Comic Book History of Comics, Action Presidents! (all drawn by Ryan Dunlavey), and The Comic Book Story of Basketball with Joe Cooper (Ten Speed September 2020).

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Crystal Skillman, and some mostly ungrateful cats.

Reviews

[Joshuadaniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a confusing yet exiting fictional story about a famous billionaire playboy philanthropist. Tony stark is iron man and iron man is shot out of the sky and ends up in a village. But then a lady that is made up of electricity and threatens to attack the village. But Tony and a blacksmith work together to build a suit that can absorb electricity and fire back a jet blast a water to put out the energy.

[Shelby Morton · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an interesting read (my first read through). I assume that a younger boy (and even the girls) would really enjoy this read. Also, the story of a community helping one another is a great lesson for in the classroom. Then there is also the history/geography lesson that can be taught about this special type of community and lifestyle seen in this comic. However, I felt that the plot line and the craziness of the drawings made it slightly hard to follow what was going on at a steady pace.

[Jacqueline · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the Marvel Age books for their quick readability, but that also makes the plot suffer as it does here. I really would have liked to have seen this story as a fully fleshed out comic book storyline or tie in novel because a lot of background information is missing.

[Scout Steinmiller · Rating 2 out of 5]

it was fine i guess. :^(