International Iron Man, Issue #4 begins with the revelation that Tony Stark was adopted in Bulgaria, from an orphanage. He goes to that orphanage to try to find out about his past, who his true birth parents are, but why does his nemesis, Cassandra Gillespie, have a compound in Bulgaria? And what happened between them 25 years ago? This leads to a confrontation between Cassandra and Tony that ends in a cliffhanger. There are basically four timelines in this issue, Tony just finishing up with Civil War II, Tony at the orphanage, Tony confronting Cassandra, and 25 years in the past, although it's fairly easy to differentiate them, unlike a Salman Rushdie novel, where you just have to pick up the clues as to what's happening where or when.
The superstar duo of Brian Michael Bendis and artist, Alex Maleev is almost as formidable as the star-crossed combination of Cassandra Gillespie and Tony Stark. I like the direction this title is going in. There's the romance angle, but what happens if Stark find out that he's a member of the Gillespie family? Is he Cassandra's cousin or even her brother? And what if they did it together back in the early 1990s?
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