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New Secret Marvel Project by Eve Ewing to Be Revealed Next Week

Published Fri, 06 Dec 2019 15:30:57 -0600

Last updated Fri, 06 Dec 2019 16:25:35 -0600

Ironheart wrapped up after twelve issues with last week's Ironheart #12, and writer Eve Ewing took to Twitter this week to provide thorough writers commentary on the final issue, say her farewells to the character, reveal some behind-the-scenes drama, and finally to announce that she will be announcing a secret new Marvel project next week.

We won't include the entire recap in case you haven't read the issue yet, but there may still be some spoilers in the tweets we've posted, so if you're worried about that, be sure to read Ironheart #12 first.

If you want to read the entire thread, start here:

hi there. this is going to be a long thread in which I recap #Ironheart 12 and say farewell to my time writing on this series and say a bunch of emotional feely feels.

assemble your crew. pic.twitter.com/VJjB6YWkyQ

— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) December 5, 2019

Ewing discusses influences for one of the early scenes in the book from Star Wars and Lord of the Rings:

when people are balanced above a magical magma pit thing, it's a rule that someone has to fall in. it's the law. like Chekhov's gun. but who will it be?

first, Dune, Luciano's latest entry into our Rogue's Gallery of Extremely Attractive Villains, is making a frightening speech. pic.twitter.com/wkyWzYKZUr

— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) December 5, 2019

And also callbacks to the first issue of Ironheart, as well as how the art affects the pacing of the scene.

but thanks to her fellow Champion and girl genius, the Unstoppable Wasp, Riri has some Pym Particles on hand! she shrinks, temporarily evading notice. in typical Riri fashion, she's acting impulsively. she just knows she wants to grab the stone, which she gets very big and does. pic.twitter.com/rT6vRWtQm4

— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) December 5, 2019

this moment of Riri falling echoes the beginning of last issue, our flashback to her as a child falling off a chair. @LucianoVecchio has used this silhouette effect several times in the series. it's visually stunning and has the effect of kind of slowing down time. pic.twitter.com/5Si0LAxr60

— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) December 5, 2019

Ewing also talked about the things she wanted to accomplish when she learned the series would end with Ironheart #12.

I wanted Riri to confront and settle her biggest fear–that she is secretly somehow bad or has bad things inside her.

— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) December 5, 2019

In a sense, it's like Riri has been able to hear all the hateful things people say about her on the internet, and because she's a teen and because she has real trauma, she's internalized them.

now, it's time to face them.

— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) December 5, 2019

the trouble with these plans was that when we found out the series was ending, we were mid-Wakanda arc. how could Riri face these personal issues while halfway across the world?

by falling into the Wellspring with a stone that connects her to her own consciousness, that's how.

— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) December 5, 2019

And when it came to revelations about Riri's father, Ewing says she had to win a battle with Marvel to ensure that S.H.I.E.L.D. would be the entity behind the trials that caused him to disappear from her life.

I'm leaving some threads here for someone else to pick up if they want. this is all we know about Dune–he's Riri's father, he's in Ten Rings, he seems to have had his memory erased, he's SUPER powerful, and it's thanks to a SHIELD experiment (peep the logo on the lab floor). pic.twitter.com/twMsP0X4uu

— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) December 5, 2019

so, now we know a bit of what happened to Demetrius "Riri" Williams, our hero's namesake. but she is not happy about this, because it plays into, again, her deepest fear. her father is the villain. so she's bad. "it's the truth," she says. pic.twitter.com/8YHBBOD9aS

— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) December 5, 2019

Ewing goes on to recap the entire ending, and again, we don't want to spoil that, but it's definitely worth reading through the entire thread if you've already read the book. Ewing concludes with the big reveal: a secret Marvel project which will be announced NEXT WEEK.

you can catch a glimpse of Ironheart in INCOMING, which is dropping Dec 25. you can catch me in my next Marvel project, which… is still a secret until next week. sorry!!!

— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) December 6, 2019

And she ended with some thanks to readers and a statement on what made writing Ironheart most worthwhile:

there is nothing I wouldn't do for them. no youtube video, or scary threat, mean tweet, or hateful blog post, self-doubt, or fear could ever stop me from writing the stories that they deserve.

I'm not invincible. but all of you who believed in me made me feel pretty close to it. pic.twitter.com/Hw4cWPgmXX

— wikipedia brown, socially distant OG (@eveewing) December 6, 2019

Ironheart #12 is in comic stores now. We'll let you know as soon as we learn what Ewing's next Marvel project will be.

IRONHEART #12
SEP190942
(W) Eve Ewing (A/CA) Luciano Vecchio
Ironheart's Wakanda adventure comes to a shocking conclusion. With allies Shuri, Silhouette and Okoye by her side, Riri Williams faces her biggest challenger yet: her own past. And things will never be the same.
Rated T
In Shops: Nov 27, 2019
SRP: $3.99