Also Korvac has repeatedly reinvented himself, just as Iron Man has. There are clear parallels there with how Tony sees himself. He thinks he knows best and can make the universe a better place. But in looking even closer, the context of why he kills them, what he’s trying to do, felt very rich for a villain. And I couldn’t get over that he easily killed all the Avengers. Why was Korvac the right fit as far as an antagonist here?ĬHRISTOPHER CANTWELL: Well, personally, I’m obsessed with Marvel’s Bronze Age and he’s a classic one from that era. It also spoke to his humanity, which I wanted to do from the beginning. But it felt rich and like something I could pull through the whole story as something that spoke to his addiction tendencies without being redundant with what’s been done in the past. The morphine addiction thread came later, with the idea of Tony suffering an intense physical defeat when Korvac breaks his neck. Ultimately I went with what we have, where the big goal for him was getting the power to do so, and where we only get a tiny glimpse of his plans with Tony and Patsy…which they promptly dismiss as limited and foolish. Korvac had much more of a techno-organic plan initially that involved some assimilation-type moves on Earth, but his goal was always to remake the universe. Tom and the editing team were very patient as I kept emailing them retellings of the arc that were more and more distilled, until it became what it is. Initially, I had Korvac’s goals as more complicated, but they were always utopic. Initially I think the pitch was 15 issues, but it ballooned to 19 once I included the solo Hellcat story in issue #8, the solo Korvac story in issue #9, and the two-parter of Tony marooned and isolated on the planet with Stilt-Man in issues #10-11, which is its own mini-arc unto itself. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to swing for the fences on the arc’s length. What was your initial pitch for the Korvac super-arc going in as the new writer on IRON MAN?ĬHRISTOPHER CANTWELL: Getting a chance at a massive opportunity like this made me ambitious. ![]() With the latest Korvac saga in the rearview and Tony moving past his cosmic god phase, it seemed a perfect time to debrief with Cantwell on the major moves he’s made so far, as well as tease out a bit of what lies ahead. Nobody can accuse this storyteller (whose work expands into television) of being anything less than ambitious. Reliable allies including the Avengers stepped aside for the unlikely likes of Frog-Man and Avro-X. Familiar threats such as Korvac and, believe it or not, Stilt-Man, gained a new edge under Cantwell’s pen.
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