With Invincible Iron Man 500, you get a lot of comic for your money. I'm just not sure if it was the right comic for my money. I've enjoyed all of Fraction's run on this title, and the idea for this one is quite novel - a look at how it all ends for Tony Stark. We also get to see something of a resolution between Tony and Peter Parker, who helpfully plants the idea Tony uses decades later for saving the world. Absolutely an interesting and unique story - and wonderfully self-contained!

The art, however, was a mess. I haven't been a big fan of Larocca's work, which shows striking and distracting inconsistencies from panel to panel, and that continues in this issue. I've managed to overlook it for most of the series. In this issue, however, another problem crept in: the scenes in the future that involved fire, exploding, and other large-scale calamities were a complete mess. I blame this on both his pencils and the coloring, which turned these scenes into nothing but a blur, clouds of confusion I couldn't see through. The dialogue helped me understand most of what was going on, but it remains muddled in my mind.