We talked a bit about this yesterday when revealing Bleeding Cool’s teaser, and the general gist of the changes were revealed late last night, but a new interview from Mashable reveals details about what is in store for the new “Superior Iron Man,” written by Tom Taylor and illustrated by Yildray Cinar — both DC staples, up until now.
Apparently influenced by the events of “Axis,” which will be at least 3 issues into the event at the time, the new series launches this November and finds Iron Man as a bit of a villain now (hence the Superior tag). Despite changes to Thor and Captain America, Iron Man will not be Arno but rather will continue to be Tony Stark, moving to San Francisco and consumed by his ego as he releases a new Extremis mobile app that “offers the promise of beauty, perfection … and possibly immortality.” The new Iron Man will also come with a new suit, as seen above and described by Msahable as “equal parts apple computer and TRON,” though I’d throw in a healthy dose of GLaDOS in there as well.
Iron Man is even described as a Silicon-Valley mogul in the piece, which makes me excited for Mike Judge’s take on Tony in Silicon Valley season 2 as a potential replacement for Peter Gregory (RIP Chris Evan Welch).
It seems like the series will be playing on the idea that Tony is a mad genius who knows what is best for everyone as he imposes his will on them, whether they like it or not. He’s a “hero,” but the kind of hero who decides that the only way to really help people and avoid the recurring failures of letting citizens down is to become a techno-dictator.
…which, when boiled down like that, does sound remarkably similar to writer Tom Taylor’s work on “Injustice,” in which Superman — the pinnacle of heroes — decides that the only way to really help people is to be in charge of them. Now there’s an app for that!
In fairness, it’s not completely out of character for Tony to become drunk with power (pun intended). If anything, all of the rumors circulating the upcoming Avengers sequel seem to imply the same thing as the reason for the introduction of Ultron (though how much of that is legitimate information and just fanboy discussions is, as always, up for debate). Given that Marvel does things in line with their upcoming films these days, it doesn’t seem out of place for this change in pushing Tony into villainy.
Not only that, but it should be noted that in Hickman’s “Avengers,” it had been prophesied that Iron Man would become a villain that ruins things for everyone. You’d think that that was just how people talk about Tony, but it seems there really are big plans for that.
“The Hubrissed-Out Superior Iron Man” launches in November.
