I'll start off by saying that I'm a huge Iron Man fan. When it comes to Marvel, he's one of my favorite super heroes. With that being said, this anthology is just sort of average. The anthology itself chronicles the new start to the Iron Man mythos in the 90s when Marvel briefly outsourced the Iron Man title along with several other popular titles to previous Marvel employees over at Image Comics.

This reboot starts out fairly clunky and it took me awhile to really start caring for our beloved Tony Stark and his co-horts Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan. The biggest negative about this anthology is that it is missing several issues in between story arcs as it contains solely Iron Man titles. Therefore, a four part story towards the end of the anthology only has one issue. Readers are left to try and pull the story together from the facts contained in that one title.

The anthology is also a bit slow at getting into the groove of things, but it picks up towards the end with the entrance of characters like the Fantastic Four, The Hulk, She-Hulk, Doc Samson and Victor Von Doom. I can imagine that later volumes would be much better paced and interesting.

The positive side to this anthology is that unlike other titles, this one really seems to connect issue to issue. Each one can be stand alone if a reader wants it to be, but at the same time it blends seamlessly into the next issue, which is far different than a lot of the episodic X-Men issues from their early anthologies.

In the end, I give Heroes Reborn: Iron Man three stars. For the Marvel Comics/Iron Man fans, this is a definite must-have/must-read for the collection. For the uninitiated, I'd personally suggest starting with the original Iron Man series instead of the reboot. I think casual fans would enjoy the original more. ( )