Iron Man 3 is taking over the world and Tony Stark is playing a critical role in Marvel’s next big comic book epic! Tony stars in Avengers and New Avengers as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the Illuminati fight to protect our world from alternative worlds obliterating ours. Both team books are building up to Infinity in which the Marvel Universe battles Thanos.
Writer Jonathan Hickman explains why Tony’s role in the three books with Comic Book Resources:
“I think Tony Stark is a futurist and a pragmatist, a builder and an engineer. He’s looking for practical solutions to real problems. Almost everything he’s doing in ‘New Avengers’ and ‘Avengers is trying to manufacture ways to deal with all this stuff that’s going on. And while the Illuminati in ‘New Avengers’ aren’t a team in the normal sense of the word, he is working with other very smart people to try and solve an impossible problem.
Then, in ‘Avengers,’ he’s set up this unbelievably powerful organization run by the one guy he trusts more than anything — except when it comes to end of the world, ‘Illuminati’ scenarios, obviously. Captain America runs this super hero team that, at first glance, could basically mop the floor with everyone. But the dangers and the conflicts that the Avengers encounter are about to increase in scale, and we’re going to see that Tony and Steve have built an Avengers team for the times. They’re going to have to rise up and be what they need to be. They are built to handle those kinds of threats, while the ‘New Avengers’ are tackling the even greater threats going on in that book.”
You can get a preview of Infinity in Marvel’s Free Comic Book Day issue out this Saturday.
Iron Man 3 opens Friday.
The Secret Origin of Tony Stark kicked off in the Iron Man solo book and Tony has joined the Guardians of the Galaxy cast.
By Editor