Christmas means Iron Dickery.
The book recommendation post got me remembering. My husband fell completely head-over-heels in love with Iron Man this year--even after swiping my copies of Civil War and Secret Invasion--and so I decided to pick up some Iron Man-centric comics for him tonight.

Things he's read and that we already own: Ultimates 1 & 2, Ultimate Iron Man (1 and 2, I think), Marvel Adventures Avengers, SI, CW, Avengers Disassembled, and the Matt Fraction Invincible Iron Man that came out last week.

Things that he likes: Iron Dickery. Seriously. He loves 616 Iron Man and finds MA Iron Man bland.

Things he doesn't like: Pre-late-'90s art (so no permed and mulleted Tony Stark, as amusing as I'd find it), Iron Man suits pre-Granov, possibly Maria Hill. The jury's still out on that last one.

I've had Mighty Avengers suggested to me, and I'm considering picking up Extremis for him, but I'm way more of an X-men fan and have no real idea of where to go with this. Halp.

Also, go ahead and turn this into a general comics-for-the-holidays rec post if you're in the same boat as me! I just really need these comics by tonight, since there's a sale and he's going to be too busy raiding on WoW to go so it's the perfect holiday shopping time.