Time Magazine is reporting that a new female character named Riri Williams will take over the role of Iron “Man” from Tony Stark in the comics. Stark hears about Williams when she builds her own version of the Iron Man suit in her M.I.T. dorm room. She is a gifted scientist and started college at M.I.T. at age 15.
Iron Man writer Brian Michael Bendis says he’s excited about bringing in this new character. “It just seemed that sort of violence inspiring a young hero to rise up and act, and using her science acumen, her natural born abilities that are still raw but so ahead of where even Tony Stark was at that age, was very exciting to me.”
He mentions that Stark is “aware that this young woman is flying by him in terms of how quickly she’s doing it. Her brain is maybe a little better than his. She looks at things from a different perspective that makes the armor unique. He can’t help but go maybe I should buy her out.”
News source: TIME
Photo credit: Marvel
