
By: Kelly Sue DeConnick (writer), Andrea Mutti (art), Jose Villarrubia (art) & Clayton Cowles (letters)
The Story: Pepper Potts gets to play around in her Rescue armor and has a nice, long chat with her dead husband.
What’s Good: This is a nice little story that hits on a lot of the high-notes of what makes Pepper Potts an important character in world of Iron Man. If I had to think of two words to describe Pepper, it would be “helper” and “competent”. That really comes across in this issue as we see her flashing back to saving a bunch of folks from a burning building in her newer Rescue armor.
Of course, Pepper also has a lot of self-doubt and kind of idolizes Tony Stark, so she is beating herself up over not being able to finish the rescue job (which Tony would have pulled off) and this doubt manifests itself by seeing her dead husband: Happy Hogan. This whole sequence is really nicely written.
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