If there’s one major flaw to this first issue’s story is that it relies far too much on telling the reader what is going on with the people of San Francisco instead of showing it. Elevating everyone in San Francisco with a smartphone to “near physical perfection” also creates an underclass of people without the Extremis app who soon find themselves under attack by the city’s beautified denizens. Plenty of writers could have drawn the line there and make these changes just superficial fluff, but Superior Iron Man bites a bit harder. This issue places Stark in a not too subtle comparison to the likes of Apple in his new Californian home city, new iMac looking armor, and idolization by his followers. Within a week, almost everyone in the entire city is turned into the equivalent of a supermodel and heralding Iron Man for creating paradise. With his new perspective, Tony Stark moves his base of operations to San Francisco and gives every citizen access to a customized Extremis Virus via app. Despite the tie-in to Marvel’s latest big event, the book is new reader friendly as anyone with only the sparsest knowledge of the character can jump right in. Also, like that series, bringing back Tony Stark’s better half can easily be done with the snap of the fingers, the story mostly exists to ruffle up the status quo and have fun while doing it.
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This series is drawing some clear-cut parallels to the Superior Spider-Man series, which also featured its hero befalling mental manipulation and acting in a more villainous manner.
Tony Stark was hit by a mental wave created by Doctor Strange and the Scarlet Witch, altering his personality into slightly sinister version of himself from his pre-superhero days. Jumping out of the pages of Marvel’s still ongoing event Avengers & X-Men: AXIS, Superior Iron Man marks a new status quo for the armored hero.