I think whether you would like comics Iron Man depends on what exactly you don't like about MCU Iron Man. Comics Iron Man was basically created in the mold of a tragic romantic hero; his origin story is that he takes shrapnel to the chest, has to wear the Iron Man suit chestplate under his clothes and charge it up regularly to stay alive. Everyone envies him and thinks he has everything in the world, but he is sad and lonely and convinced he is going to die soon so no one should love him because they'll just be sad. He's depressed and occasionally suicidal. He's an alcoholic. He's a genius but not really an arrogant one, IMO; there's a lot of focus on his philanthropy and his attempts to do good in the world, because he was created in the 1960s to be basically an ad for capitalism so he's very much the fantasy of the One Good Billionaire. He's occasionally quippy but not like MCU Tony is. So if any of that sounds like a character you would like, I can give you some recs.
(I have some meta about him here and some meta about him and Cap more generally here and a sort of flowchart of reading suggestions for Avengers stuff focusing on Cap and Iron Man.)
My go-to suggestion for anyone to see if they're going to like Avengers and specifically Cap comics is the miniseries Captain America: Man Out of Time, which is a modern-day retelling of Captain America's origin story and how he ended up in the future and was found by the Avengers. And then the part here that's new is "what if he got a chance to go back to the 40s?" and it's just... great. Waid is my favorite Cap writer.
The place a lot of people start with for Avengers is New Avengers volume 1 (2005, I think? somewhere around there), which is easy to get into because the team is mostly people you've already heard of, living in the Tower; it's also the lead-up to Civil War if you decide you ever want to read that. My favorite Avengers run is the one before that, Busiek & Perez' 1998 Avengers vol 3 (which is also the era of my favorite Cap and IM runs -- Busiek's IM vol 3 and Waid's Cap vol 3) and it's an awful lot of fun but it does assume you know who all these people are.
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(I have some meta about him here and some meta about him and Cap more generally here and a sort of flowchart of reading suggestions for Avengers stuff focusing on Cap and Iron Man.)
My go-to suggestion for anyone to see if they're going to like Avengers and specifically Cap comics is the miniseries Captain America: Man Out of Time, which is a modern-day retelling of Captain America's origin story and how he ended up in the future and was found by the Avengers. And then the part here that's new is "what if he got a chance to go back to the 40s?" and it's just... great. Waid is my favorite Cap writer.
The place a lot of people start with for Avengers is New Avengers volume 1 (2005, I think? somewhere around there), which is easy to get into because the team is mostly people you've already heard of, living in the Tower; it's also the lead-up to Civil War if you decide you ever want to read that. My favorite Avengers run is the one before that, Busiek & Perez' 1998 Avengers vol 3 (which is also the era of my favorite Cap and IM runs -- Busiek's IM vol 3 and Waid's Cap vol 3) and it's an awful lot of fun but it does assume you know who all these people are.