>>99575868>If Iron Man changed into a serious, somber control freak, he would become more like Doom, since he wouldn't limit himself to NY - and even if he did, he would come into conflict with other heroes, effectively making him at least an anti-hero.Well, yeah. That's what he works best as.
>Flawed, alcoholic, hedonistic Stark works much better, but not many can competently write his solo series -Depends. Being a jokey cunt who doesn't care past doing some heroics is awful. Him being such a materialist that he wants to own everything, to dictate everything, to the point where he Augs himself and masks his loneliness with drinks and morally loose women is good. Tony being a hedonist is a rather recent retcon. His worst cases being in minis such as Iron Age. He was a flirt, but that's what was expected of him, same as Bruce. If we are going with retcons, the whole thing is a facade due to insecurities.
>in fact his best solo in last years was Infamous Iron Man, where Tom Taylor completely embraced Tony's pride and arrogance.Just because everything past Fraction was shit, doesn't mean that was great. And even then, the whole point of Superior (Infamous was BENIS) was that Tony DID turn into a control freak with the world being his playground. Once he lets go of morals, Tony becomes worse than Bruce in his worst day. The two are not really all that different.
