Riri Williams to become the next Iron Man

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Time to grab a couple Iron Man #7, the first appearance of Riri Williams, as well as, Invincible Iron Man #9. These books originally came into prominence because Riri was becoming the next War Machine, how ever now, she is becoming the next Iron Man.

Time.com had the story:

There’s a new Iron Man. Well, Iron Man for now. She’s still working on the name. The events at the end of the comic book event series Civil War II will result in Tony Stark stepping out of the Iron Man suit and a new character, Riri Williams, taking over, Marvel tells TIME. (Note: Tony’s departure doesn’t mean you know the end to Civil War II yet.)
Riri is a science genius who enrolls in MIT at the age of 15. She comes to the attention of Tony when she builds her own Iron Man suit in her dorm. Creator and Iron Man writer Brian Michael Bendis spoke exclusively to TIME about the creation of Riri Williams with book artist Stefano Caselli and Marvel’s increasingly diverse cast of characters.

Riri first appearance, possible cameo is in Iron Man #7.
Her first full appearance and in War Machine armor is in Invincible Iron Man #9
Copies of issue 9 can be found here for cover price.
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59 thoughts on “Riri Williams to become the next Iron Man”

    1. Enough is enough with this garbage already. Marvel, like ABC TV, is forcing their agenda down our throats. The good thing is, I save money and only buy 3 titles from Marvel and to be honest ASM with Slott is getting a bit boring as well. May be 2 titles shortly.

      1. Yeah, I’m getting tired of Slott on ASM as well. I’m actually enjoying Spidey though.. goes back to the roots of Peter Parker and Spider-Man and the cover art for each has been freaking awesome.

      1. The rope attached tot he blade of the metaphorical guillotine blade over my Marvel pull is wearing THIIIIIIIIIIIIN.
        Is this indicative of a line-wide reboot? I swear, if they reboot the entire line, I may just be pulling Batman and Flash from DC. Why can’t we get any story development going on here? At least the New 52 had 52 issues to breathe in. I’m not even a DC fanboy. I’m more a True Believer than a DC guy, but come on!

    3. Yeah, we’ve only got two Captain Americas, Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Green Lanterns (to the nth degree), Ant Man, Giant Man, Aquaman, three Flashes, Cyclops, Sabertooth, Nightcrawler, Gambit, Deadpool, Green Arrow, another Spider-Man, The Punisher, Moon Knight, Lobo, Sinestro, Captain Marvel, Shazam (not to be confused with Captain Marvel thanks to some clever legal manuvering), Nova, Peter Quill, Venom, Hawkeye, did I mention Hulk yet?, Hulkling, Wiccan, Patriot, Bloodshot, Turok, X-O, most of the Harbinger universe, Rai, every single one of the Watchmen, save for their token lady, and a boat load of others.
      This may Truly be the twilight of the male super hero in popular fiction.

  2. This bothers me. Gone are the heroes that I grew up with. Total lack of creativity to develop new characters nowadays.

  4. Why can’t they just create new characters with new powers like back in the good old Marvel days. This whole pass-me-down is getting old.

  5. I managed to snag every first print copy of #7 (5) and #9 (3 regular, 2 AoA) I could this past week while I was roaming the countryside on vacation. Hopefully it will pay off!

  7. I’m not feeling it.. don’t care, not even gonna bother searching for these.

      1. But, RiRi doesn’t like that name. She scoffed at it in #10. I do think this is another case of “irony” that just isn’t “irony”. Like the all-female X-team dubbed “X-men” because it was “ironic”. So now SHE is Iron MAN… because Marvel wants name recognition. This does remind me of the original Nintendo confusion over Metroid, though. So many people never realized the lead character was a Woman! I’m figuring if her armor continues to look as masculine as it does right now, they will milk that trope for all it’s worth, to have characters reacting to the fact that there is a woman piloting the Iron Man armor…

  9. I also like the way they brought in a female version of the vision. I’ll also add that I don’t read anything marvel.

      1. Alters isn’t the first book to feature a transgender superhero. Even DC tried to make that same claim when The Movement & Secret Six both featured trans superheroes/supervillains. But the earlier, and more memorable character for me was Xavin from Runaways. Even though the character was not truly transgender, Xavin’s fluid gender identity opened the line of discussion and future story potential. Like many topics in Runaways, Molly’s perspective and curiosity led to interesting conversations.

      2. @ FromTheAshes21 Coagula appeared way before that in the 80s run on DC’s Doom Patrol. She was openly transgender (and was even written by a transgendered woman).

  12. The comments here on this page are why the Comic industry is dying, the amount of old white men who constantlyyyyy complain that there can be no new black, gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, asian, arab characters is ridiculous, im sorry that this isnt the 1940s anymore, im sorry that your favourite fake characters who you grew up with who gave you warmth and comfort because you had awful parents are now stepping down because theyre literally 70+ years old and their comics are no longer selling, im sorry that this for some reason for all of you is so traumatic that you need to complain and moan on EVERY single forum on the internet. we get it, you dont like black people unless theyre a new original character that will fade out in a year, we get that you dont like the new latina and arab main character because theyre not what YOU want to see in the pages of a comic book, and we get that you just simply do NOT like the brown character who is the main character in the comic book you love, heavens forbid ! get it together, you whining and moaning about your fictitious heroes doesnt help anyone, anywhere. The more you soak in shame and arrogance and ignorance about a new character who isnt a white male shows how far you’re capable of thinking into the future, these are COMIC BOOKS, these are NOT real life, this is a SPECULATION website, White people are already the minority in the US, and by 2050 the population will be majority black and latino, London is already 51%+ people of some sort of immigrant background, if you;re going to whine because you dont like the kinky haired black girl in an iron man suit, well good, everyone else whos paying attention to the next 10 years and the next row of movie franchises IS paying attention and they’ll proudly profit from something you were too important to purchase because you couldnt stop complaining about something that no one else cares about but you. Get over yourselves, seriously.

    1. I’m all for a Gay Muslim Transgender Asian Captain America that eats pork and has threesomes with Howard the Duck and Lockjaw in Marvels next great arc Beastiality War ll. What I don’t like is people who step all over others opinions with a hateful tirade.

    2. I understand what some of their arguments are, don’t change the status quo, make new and engaging characters. However, Solar Man came out today which is a reimaging of a “classic” (I use the term loosely) Marvel Character as a young black man, a book which has sold out at Diamond, and which is a awesome book, no one is complaining about because they don’t care about the character. However, the Solar Man book was a good read and intriguing. I have a mixed race family (brother and sisters in law and nieces and nephews) and I like seeing characters that look like my family. Books I can show off to them. However, the books I am not showing them are the Marvel books, but books like Niobe and other small press books that get the characters and are not just stereotypes. I mean, Marvel changed Falcon’s past to where he was a drug dealer. Come on. There is a bit of pandering going on at Marvel, and yes, some of the changes are not necessary but (and I am hoping in Iron Man’s case) as long as the characters make sense (Miles Morales) then I am all for it. Changing characters just to change characters for PR purposes is not beneficial to anyone. Just a thought.
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    3. @ Silverlaggia…Where is anyone saying there can’t be new characters that aren’t white? Please point that out. Who said “Only whites can be characters in comic books? Go on, point that out! Most would actually welcome more, new diversity! The fact is this is a disturbing trend of the super left pulling political correct cash grabs every other week and then turning around and playing the race card on anyone who is smart enough to see through the BS. Another fact is most of these comics were selling just fine before this pc garbage started. Another fact is if Marvel took the time and effort to create new diverse characters and actually write them well, they would in time become every bit as popular as the iconic ones they keep messing with! Just because the US won’t have as many white people in it down the line means in your eyes white characters that have become iconic in Americana and US culture should be changed?! That’s not racist in your eyes? really? Talk about being a hypocrite! To be honest the only bigot I see here is you. Do you really think it is just “old white guys” as you pointed out who are concerned and even angered by this?…comic book or not?! It is more than just old white guys! Then you bring up arrogance? Well, I have to say it is beyond arrogant and ignorant of you to start playing and indicating the race card when in fact these characters were created as one thing and then changed to appease liberal pawns as well as that coveted cash grab. The fact you bring race into this over and over again and then state they are “only comic books” and not real just shows the shallowness of your own bigoted argument. You can come back to this and play the race card on me if you want. I could care less. I am tired of pc police and liberal “pc bullies” and race baiters such as yourself stepping on valid concerns of what I would dare say tis he majority if comic fans. Also, before you try and use the race card on me for not falling in line with your will I am in an extremely happy interracial marriage so my wife will probably have a thing or two to say about that…she also thinks the constant race and gender switching is stupid as well. How dare she, right? I think you need to take a good long look at yourself before you start trolling that people are bigoted old white guy and I suggest “you” get over yourself!

      1. @ocguy72 To be fair, I don’t think he was intending to be racist when he recounted those statistics and said to put the kinky haired girl in a suit, because I did not see him imply that the kinky haired girl would be superior to the old white men by virtue of the fact that she is black. I think he meant in more of an equal representation thing, which does not meet the traditional definition of racism.
        And sadly, I don’t think it’s the case that most of these comics were selling fine before the PC stuff. At least in the case of Iron Man, the Bendis books have been declining sharply in the monthly floppy sales, which no doubt was at least ONE factor in this relaunch.

  13. Sold my last copy of Invincible Iron Man 7 for $20 today. I guess I should’ve held put a little longer. ha ha

      1. you think the 2nd print will be of value? I haven’t seen any 2nd print at all. I wish I would’ve seen this post before I ran to my LCS. I could’ve grabbed issue 9 also.

        1. The 2nd prints have a blue logo. First prints have a red. With the way crazy comic books markets work now, lower printed reprints can and have ended up worth more than the first prints.
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  14. I picked up 2 Women Of Power variants a couple of hours ago at a few bucks above cover. One sold, one to go. Nice profit already thanks to the trendies who think they’ll get rich holding onto them for the next 20 years.
    Because Marvel can’t come up with any good new original characters, this it what the future looks like. I don’t remember anyone complaining when James Rhodes became Iron Man in the 1980’s, know why? Because it was done within the context of the story and it fit. Marvel wasn’t all “Hey, look at us!” Writers then cares about putting out a good story, not how many wine and cheese parties they’ll get invited to or doing guest spots on the Daily Show.
    The Supreme Power Nighthawk mini series was one of the best books that Marvel has put out in the last 20 years, because it was well written (Daniel Way can do no wrong!) and guess what? the main character is BLACK! The current series is subpar because the writer and artist are more interested in pushing an agenda than just telling a good story.
    Whatever. In the end if I can make money from a turd, it’s all good

    1. We still need to see if the change is going to be in context of the story. I am refraining from judgement until I read it. I also am the kind of guy who moves in and out of books quickly for profit. So either way I will not have a horse in the race for long.

  15. I was told the LCS only got 5 copies each of 2nd print to the DC rebirth books. Can anyone confirm this? If so, wouldn’t that be a very low print run? But the price in the market doesn’t indicate that.

  16. I had 2 of these in my hands a couple of weeks ago, but I put them back looked for them a week later gone. Oh well you win some you lose some.

  19. So how many people think we are going to see a new team created with Riri Ironman um woman, Iron Jane, Silk Thor, SpiderGwen and Viv vision

  20. I’m going to keep this simple… the comments made by Silverlaggia, I feel, are not those of the CHU community. If Silver actually read the previous comments, or even frequented this site often, one can easily tell that CHU frustration is not with any form of diversity in characters, but the lack of Originality. Why not just give Riri her own title? “Strait from the pages of Iron Man! Marvel’s newest superhero now in their own monthly title!” A little different now, isn’t it? Retconning every classic character is no substitute for originality. The heat for Uncanny Inhumans #11 w/Mosaic is a possitive for originality (although some might argue he’s a Marvel version of Deadman). Will the character be popular? Who knows, but at least it’s something NEW. Just saying…

    1. I agree 100% with what you say. It’s nothing to do with the race or gender of the characters, it’s the fact that Marvel seems to be changing the status quo of existing characters way too much. In the last 2 years, we have Thor, Wolverine, Blade (seems to have been cancelled but was going to be Blade’s daughter) and Captain America already doing the switch and now Iron Man. I want more diversity but why dont we see new characters instead of replacing existing ones? On top of the incessant reboots to #1 from marvel it just gets really tiring and just a hassle….

      1. I honeslty gave up on most Marvel books a long time ago. It was when the renumbered Amazing Spiderman the second time. I was a legacy collector of Spiderman and have a pretty solid run, when they ended the 1st ASM and renumbered, I hung around, especially after they went back to Legacy numbering. How ever, the third time, and now the fourth time, I just gave up. Same with Uncanny X-Men. I do not mind some characters being replaced. However, I think the idea behind the Ultimate line was to try to reboot books without having to worry about legacy fans.

      2. And here we go, on comicbookresources there’s a new article about the change and at the very end we can read:
        Brian Michael Bendis and Stefano Caselli’s “Invincible Iron Man” #1, starring Riri Williams, arrives in October
        So ANOTHER reboot to #1….

        1. Hmmm….. I am still hoping the story makes sense in context of the bigger picture, Iron Man is injured during Civil War II or it is a PR nightmare and he has to step down or is forced to step down.
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  21. I don’t have a strong opinion here, but I’m enjoying the Hell out of people complaining about how reskins are too derivative. In comics. You know, where characters, and given that a lot of the arguments seems to be about them taking a name and abilities from someone else ,their powers are always super inspired.
    I’ll read it, just like I’ve read 1000 different Green Lanterns, Batpeople, X-Folks, and Avengers before. If I hate the book, it’s going to be because the character was poorly developed and written. Not because she took her name, and schtick from a white man. Passing judgement before the first issue, and given it’s a Bendis book I doubt I’ll make it past that, seems pretty unfair.

  22. If it wasn’t for Star Wars…I wouldn’t be reading any Marvel titles! Political Correctness is out of control in reality and I don’t want or need it in the comic books I read! Marvel SUCKS!!!

  23. Hit the jackpot today. Found 10 copies of issue 7 at a books a million store today while blowing time before tux fitting for a wedding in FL.

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