Tony Stark is back and more brutal than ever before, as Marvel mainstay Roxxon moves against his company in Iron Man #1.

I am Iron Man

We have to admit we were a little put off by the promotional material for Marvel’s latest Iron Man relaunch. It’s pretty different from basically anything that we’ve seen before starring the superhero, and seeing leather straps holding armor pieces on can be a little jarring.

But along those same lines, there’s a definite cool-factor happening with it, and Marvel is promising that the man in the armor is going to be a bit different this time too. While it’s still Tony Stark in the suit, it’s a Tony Stark who’s through being attacked, and is ready to go on offense against a union of two villainous Marvel Comics staples, with Roxxon and A.I.M.

Roxxon and A.I.M. team up to take on Stark Unlimited! But they’re ready for the old Tony Stark. This one? He’s a lot angrier than he used to be. Iron Man is going to war! He’s determined to never hit rock bottom again—his old enemies will face an Iron Man more than willing to fight back, play dirty, and unleash every bit of his intellect to bring them down! When the best of his own technology fails him, Tony will build a brand-new armor that you can see in action in the new trailer! Dubbed the “Improvised Iron Man,” readers will see it assembled throughout the series as Tony does what he does best—tinkering and upgrading it to counter anything the world throws at him.

“Down to the armor Iron Man is wearing, Tony is in pure survival mode from jump,” Ackerman explained to ComicBook.com in a recent interview. “The stakes start out very high and escalate from there. A big theme of this run is going to be scale — the pursuit of it, the maintenance of it, the cost of it. We’ve seen Tony cross some very serious moral lines in the past. Now we’re going to scale them up.”
Marvel Comics press release

Scroll on down to check out the variant cover slate that’ll be landing, when Iron Man #1 hits the stands on October 23rd, 2024.