Contains Spoilers for Iron Man (2024) #2!Iron Man is going to war against the villainous corporate entities encircling him, and to do so, he is using his enemy’s weapons against them in the coolest way possible. Tony is finding out that it is harder to fight in the corporate boardroom when no-one else in the room has any morals – but who needs corporate warfare when they have a big sword?
Iron Man (2024) #2 – written by Spencer Ackerman, with art by Julius Ohta – includes the big reveal of Tony Stark’s new steampunk-inspired sword, along with the explanation that it is actually made of the very Roxxon oil pipeline that Tony destroyed in the issue.
The story finds Tony battling the Roxxon Corporation, who’re in the process of initiating a hostile takeover of Stark Tech along with AIM. While he maintains plausible deniability, Tony who employs C-List supervillain Tuatara to blow up a Roxxon oil pipeline, and Tony later uses the pipeline’s tech to make incredible new sword.
Iron Man Builds His New Sword Using Materials Sourced From The Same Roxxon Pipeline He Helped Blow Up
Iron Man (2024) #2 – Written By Spencer Ackerman; Art By Julius Ohta; Color By Alex Sinclair; Lettering By Joe Caramagna
Tony’s war on Roxxon and AIM – supervillain mad scientist thinktank Advanced Idea Mechanics – is being fought on two fronts. On the one hand, Tony is desperately trying to figure out if he has any corporate allies on Starktech’s board who might vote against being run by villains. On the other, he is taking the fight directly to Roxxon, AIM and their associated hired supervillains. By hiring Tuatura, Tony takes a leaf out of Roxxon’s own playbook, showing the level he may have to resort to in order to come out on top.
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This takeover wouldn’t have been possible without the fallout of Tony’s latest era, in which he helped the X-Men during the Fall of X. In Gerry Duggan and artist Juan Frigeri’s Invincible Iron Man (2022), Tony went through much of the same struggle, as he temporarily lost his fortune to the supervillain Feilong, who started manufacturing mutant-hunting Sentinels. The difference in this new Iron Man volume is that Tony doesn’t have any real way to fight this takeover. It’s all legal, which means that his only real recourse is blowing up pipelines and building big swords out of them.
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There is a great deal of interesting subtext to Tony’s sword as well. Tony has spent his superhero career pivoting away from Starktech making weapons, but he falters for one second and learns that his own board are more than happy to still make them. Tony Stark remains stuck in a cycle of violence – so, as cool a piece of comic iconography as his sword is, it also signifies that he is first and foremost a warrior. Rather than defeating Roxxon in the boardroom, Iron Man will take them out on the battlefield.
Iron Man (2024) #2 is available now from Marvel Comics.
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Iron Man
Anthony “Tony” Edward Stark, AKA Iron Man, is a Marvel Comics superhero who has enjoyed several years of the spotlight and has become a mainstay in several Marvel media franchises. After suffering a critical injury, Tony creates a specialized armored suit powered by an arc reactor, which keeps him alive. Egotistical but good-hearted, Tony utilizes his super intellect and inventions to fight to protect humanity from various threats, eventually becoming a founding member of the Avengers. In 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was kicked off with the film Iron Man, which starred Robert Downey Jr. as the superhero.
