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Who Is Tony Stark Sleeping With Now? Kieron Gillen And Greg Land On Iron Man

Published Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:03:02 -0500

There you go folks. Iron Man #1 by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land. After spending last week teasing all their November Marvel NOW! titles, it looks like Marvel will be spending this week confirming them all. With interviews, art and stuff. Like a big long chat with Kieron Gillen about where the book is going. Here's a few clips.

The symbolism that I bring immediately into the book [is] a lot like the Arthurian concept of the grail-knight: the idea that Tony Stark is the grail-knight, or at least aspiring to be the grail-knight. When we meet him he's left Resilient and he's digging into what's going on. Pepper has a line in the first issue saying, "Oh, you're not having a midlife crisis are you? Just buy yourself a suit of armor." That's where we start and he begins to ask questions.

The story will focus on him questioning things about himself and trying to find out exactly how the universe ticks, what's this all about and why he does this anyway. It's going to be one of the major themes of the book going forward. For as long as I'm on the book it will be one of the two major themes I'm working on, like on UNCANNY X-MEN [with] the theme of power and the corruption thereof.

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Oh hell yeah. It's actually a key part of my second theme. I'm going to explore Tony and his relationship with women. I'm interested in Tony's selection of women in everything, from his mom, to Pepper, to the random people he's sleeping with and everything that relates to them. He's a complicated guy and he does bad things occasionally without thinking. Well, not [without] thinking exactly but he's not always thinking about the right thing. He's not the distracted genius but he always has something else going on.
Invincible Iron Man by Matt Fraction

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I really want to mix it up with single issue stories because I think that quite a few people are feeling the same way. Single issues are an exciting place to go and anyone can jump on with any of the first five issues, not just issue #1. [In] each of those issues I introduce Iron Man; I say something meaningful about a character that you may know already and I want it to be accessible and to pop. That's the thing with Greg Land: his photorealistic style really pops and it's a glamorous book in that way.

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