Iron Man in Diapers: Kieron Gillen Talks Secret Origin

The “Secret Origin” of Iron Man, which may date back to when Tony Stark was a baby, will be revealed in the next arc of Iron Man, coming beginning in May from writer Kieron Gillen and artist Dale Eaglesham.”This is all completely stuff that people do not know,” Gillen said during one of Marvel’s Next Big Thing conference calls, stressing that this won’t play into his existing origin story in an explicit way. “This is very much things you did not know but would be intrigued to learn.”In fact, the writer compares it more to Superior Spider-Man in terms of seismic changes to what fans think they know about the character.”This is big. By issue #10, Tony’s conception of everything will have changed. That was me kind of foreshadowing this story. I see what Dan Slott’s been up to these past few months, and I said, ‘I want a piece of that.’ This will be interesting in terms of response. It’s not going to be minor,” promised Gillen.The structure of the story, which revolves around a secret kept by Howard Stark (Iron Man’s father), not the hero himself, will bounce back and forth between the past and present.”I wanted to do a big, meaningful story to hearken back to the beginning of Iron Man and all of that,” Gillen told reporters. He called the story a “period piece,” acknowledging that those are hard to pull off with the rolling timeline of the Marvel Universe but saying that the “eternal myth” of Las Vegas, where part of the story is set, helps to keep it timeless.