Debauchery in the tower, quick someone send the morality police. Nevermind the fact that this group of people has ever only really been together in the same place at the same time all of about oh… once?
He’s been in charge of one of the world’s biggest companies since he was twenty-one. Now about to turn forty, Tony Stark talks to Sid Franken about redemption, resurrection, and handing over the reins.
Tony Starkcarries with him a gleaming gold and red suitcase.
It remains next to his chair during our entire interview. You might expect he’d be nervous, leaving something so uniquely valuable out of sight, but he never once glances over or reaches down to ensure it’s still there. “Trust me,” he says, following my gaze. “You’ll know if somebody tries to steal it”. He claims it’s obsolete, that he only carries it with him because he’s afraid his CEO will ‘fire’ him if he doesn’t. He picks through his pockets, and pulls out a stick of gum and what looks like a flash drive. It’s monogrammed with the Stark Industries logo and a stylized icon of the Iron Man helmet, gleaming a cool metallic blue in the mid-morning light coming through the conference room window.
Stark looks up from the surface of the table and raises his eyebrows.
“Hope you don’t mind me making my own recording,” he says, not at all asking, and I nod.
Stark, despite no longer being the CEO of the company that facilitated his rise to infamy, is still the head of Stark Research and Development. And he knows an opportunity when he sees it. “There’s a whole line of Iron Man merchandise now, action figures, phones, and of course, this wee baby here.” He taps at the device. “But Pepper says I can’t tell you what it is, because it’s not out yet… and to be honest I kind of like screwing with you.”
Our interview is taking place in the conference facilities of what most New Yorkers will know as the MetLife building, recently acquired by Mr Stark’s company. When I ask him about the motivation behind the purchase, Stark claims ignorance. “Ask Potts, she made the deal. I just signed on the dotted line.” He grins and takes a sip from his stainless steel water bottle. “When that woman tells you to do something, you do it.”
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Whaaaaa, three posts in one day? You betcha! Thanks so much for everyone’s patience while I’ve been sorting out my internet issues (which still aren’t resolved but I have managed to make do).
Newsweek decides to take a break from sexism, and aims for racism instead, with a scathing article on the secretive nation of Wakanda. Following the death of King T'Chaka and the succession of his son, a group of right leaning reporters rummage around in the annals of history to dig up something akin to a History Channel conspiracy special.
We have to be honest though… after the events at Flughafen Leipzig-Halle, the Black Panther theory seems kind of legit.
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Black Widow & Hawkeye: Just Friends, or Hot and Heavy? — Us Weekly spotted these two grabbing a coffee in Brooklyn, and speculate on the nature of their friendship.
With instances of vigilante justice, tensions between the Avengers team, and reports of inhuman feats on the rise, Time asks the obvious (and takes advantage of those scale figurines everyone seems to have these days).
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