This is an interesting reinvention of Tony Stark as more of a superhuman genius, but this volume doesn’t get close to closing all the plots it opens, and the second volume isn’t on the horizon yet. Orson Scott Card spends the first of the five issues showing the situation in which Stark was born—he’s out Ulimate-ing even Brian Michael Bendis in terms of slow storytelling. Most of the moments work, though the true villain moments for Obadiah Stane fall flat.
Adam Kubert and Mark Bagley do serviceable, but not amazing, on art.