Written by Robert Kirkman, penciled by Andy Kuhn, cover by Phil Hester.
"Freedom Ring," part 3 of 5. This Tony Stark is not from our world. Captain America, dead. Reed Richards, insane. Himself the king of Latveria. That is the world he knows. Somehow he was thrown into our dimension. He was being held in stasis on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Heli-carrier until he could be sent back to his own dimension--but now he's escaped! Is the Marvel Universe ready for the Iron Maniac?
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July 5th 2006
BONUS REVIEW by RICK BERG
Well Robert Kirkman has reappeared. After 3 really good issues of quick witted dialogue and story Stark happens. Evil Tony from another dimension wakes up and begins to talk like he’s from a 1970’s comic. Iron Maniac as he wants to be called summons ailing Chris Claremont and spouts on an on about who, what and where he is. Snore. I think Marvel has a quota on dialogue and this issue was used to catch up on it. The worst part of the issue is that only 4 pages out of 22 are dedicated to Curtis Doyle, a.k.a Freedom Ring, the main character of the last two issues. Wow what a surprise he’s in a coma after last issue. And don’t get me started on the cameo by the New Avengers. Why are the New Avengers even on the S.H.E.I.L.D. Helicarrier anyway? Have they not been feuding with S.H.E.I.L.D for the last 2 years? At least Andy Kuhn turns in yet another excellent issue no matter how many word balloons get in his way. 6 Grahams
