Iron Man/Thor #2In Iron Man/Thor #2, the High Evolutionary is out stealing stuff from Asgard and looking for Tony Stark. What the High Evolutionary is doing is truly, well, evolutionary.
High Evolutionary has recruited Ulik the troll and the magical alchemist Diablo to grab the Destroyer armor from the shattered remains of Asgard. Ulik’s strength has been boosted and Diablo has a new bag of tricks that turns Thor’s own lightning against the God of Thunder. The odd couple make off with the armor leaving Thor with the mystery of where they could have gone. Meanwhile, after being overpowered by a bigger, stronger Crimson Dynamo, Tony Stark is taken to a heavenly place to have a chat with the High Evolutionary. Here the Evolutionary explains what he’s up to… With the help of his “New Men”, animals turned into humanoid slaves, High Evolutionary is looking to build a brand new, technologically based god for the 21st century. What does he want with Stark? What else, he’s looking to make Iron Man the vessel for this new god.
As of right now, this mini-series contains two separate stories on a crash course with one another. The first is Thor defending, losing, and searching for the Destroyer armor. The second is Tony Stark learning what the heck is going on with the stronger Crimson Dynamo and, as he learns in a very civilized conversation with the High Evolutionary, what the bigger picture is that drives the story. These two stories actually create a very good mix of technology, mythology, and theology, and classic role reversal.
Thor, in a story that is more like a good old fashioned mystery, is left searching for clues about Diablo’s destination, to which he called the Hermetica. He takes a dragon who’s skilled in tracking and ends up at the Smithsonian. Now you have a warrior with one of the greatest weapons ever created in a place as delicate as the Smithsonian. Talk about your ultimate bull in a china shop situation. In the end, Thor is left having to put the pieces together that the High Evolutionary’s Hermetica is hidden inside an ancient book written by 9th/10th century alchemist Esteban Corazon de Ablo… Get it… DE… ABLO? What makes this so interesting is that you normally think of Thor as the bruiser and here he is having to use his brain and some cunning.
Stark, on the other hand, is right in the middle of very classic comic book villainy. The High Evolutionary is a throwback to one a time when comics were big, bombastic, over the top stories. Back in his day, villains didn’t sit and wait for the moment to kill the Skrull Queen knowing it would make them the most trusted and powerful people in the world. These guys made big arrivals and flat out told you, “Hey! I’m gonna really do something bad! AND I’m going to do it in a really crazy way!” The High Evolutionary’s plans include making slaves out of animals turned into humanoid “people”, giving a very odd mix of villains some super duper powers, planning to do away with those people/animals without a single thought or care about eliminating them when he gets what he wants, and, oh yeah, create a brand new god. He’s kinda not messing around. Like in a classic comic book villain kind of way.
You might think that the Iron Man side of the story is the weaker of the two, but it really isn’t. Stark is talking god stuff, something he puts very little value in anyway, while also talking, and using, technology. It’s not Thor talking god stuff either, so the other role reversal is finding Stark in the discussion of gods, not the actual god in the story.
So, all in all, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning have crafted a nice little comic book story that has some very complex ideas and execution.
A COMIC BOOK BLOG RATINGProsConsNice use of the characters in the story and really nice art from Scot Eaton.Not many, but there's still a little bit of a concern that the story may fizzle by issue four. We've come a long way in just two issues. Rating90% You might also like...
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