I was lurking on the iron man reddit and saw your april fools post and I fell for it SO HARD. I was devastated. Good job.
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april 1st kinda caught me off-guard this year so I almost passed up on it but I realized I couldn’t just like that break this now-annual tradition of tapping into the deepest fears of the iron man fandom and using the power of photoshop to manifest them into what might just be windows into worse timelines than ours
for anybody curious, here’s the monstrosity I concocted this year:
this is a fake cover for a made-up new iron man run by chip zdarsky, taking the reigns from duggan next july, and turning tony into a villain that everybody hates, which is why the book would’ve been rebranded to “infamous iron man” (since marvel loves recycling comic titles I figured this was going to make it sound more believable)
fake press release under the cut, which includes fake interview excerpts.
Iron Man 1 really said “the actual bad guy is the white capitalist who is selling arms under the table to both sides in order to extend the war and make as much money from it as possible,” and Iron Man 2 really said “the white capitalist who gives a platform to people with bad intentions in order to make a buck is the reason the bad intentions have the opportunity to prosper and cause untold damage,” and Iron Man 3 really said “the real terrorist is the white capitalist who will create and use fear to manipulate governments and the public in order to sell a product,” and I really don’t think enough people recognise this.
Some people saw Aldrich Killian say “by this time tomorrow, I’ll have the West’s most powerful leader in one hand, and the world’s most feared terrorist in the other. I’ll own the war on terror. Create supply and demand,” and they still managed to miss the whole entire message of the movie.
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