One of the things that really bothers me about David Michelinie's writing on this book is that he treats Tony's alcoholism as a thing that exists in the past-just give him a soda water and it's cool. Dennis O' Neil's own run on the book, where Tony becomes lost in a bottle is proof of that.
My problem with this collection is that in the 1980s, it wasn't that a prolonged, epic story arc could exist-it could (see Crisis on Infinite Earths and "The Dark Phoenix Saga" for examples) and it wasn't that mature subject matter couldn't be addressed in the comics in a way that was appropriate to children. DC had published Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore had completed a multi-year run on Swamp Thing (plant sex anyone?) Now I wasn't expecting this sort of story from a late 80s Iron Man story arc, but the world that Tony Stark inhabits seems to be a Republican's wet dream, filled with a now recovered (from alcoholism) Tony Stark pulling himself by his bootstraps and re-making his business empire. The problem is, you aren't doing your kids any favors by protecting them in this way-eventually they will become adults and being naive about how the world works won't help them when they are on their own.īy the time that "Stark Wars" was published, comics weren't just for kids anymore. I don't blame them-they were trying to keep me safe and I guess shielding your kids from how terrible the world can really be might be a strategy to pursue. They kept me nice and sheltered so I didn't really know how the world was around me.
I mean growing up in the 80s, that was the line my parents tried to feed me.
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