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Self-Made Man: Part One – What's the Big Idea?
===Brief Summary=== Twenty-five years ago, when he was still a kid, Tony Stark) single-handedly stomped Andy Bhang) and his crew at Bhang Robotics) in a robot soccer match. In the present day, Tony has bought Bhang Robotics in hopes to work with Andy and his ideas. Stark visits and then introduces Bhang to his new think tank, Stark Unlimited), where he wants Andy to put his expertise to work for their Robotics Division. Among his coworkers are the Head of Security Bethany Cabe), the Chief Robotic Ethicist Jocasta Pym) and the U.S. Armed Forces) Liaison Jim Rhodes). Bethany Cabe is in the middle of investigating a series of leaks from the company.
Andy's initial tests are interrupted by the emergence of an uncharacteristically silent Fin Fang Foom) from the East River. As Iron Man, Tony intercepts him using first a twenty-story high Fin Fang Foombuster Armor. When the suit is damaged, he ejects in a normal-sized armor. He attacks Foom and creates an opening in his hide to fire a micro-pod, which releases a single remote-controlled Nano Iron Man Armor, into the beast's bloodstream. Before he can head to the monster's brain, the Nano Iron Man is swarmed by anti-bodies. Tony can't release the other nano-bots carried by the pod since he hasn't figured out how to make them work in tandem. Andy figures out how to help out, which allows Tony to deploy a swarm of nanobots and fend off the antibodies. Tony reaches Foom's brain stem and finds a Control Disk. He destroys it, halting Foom's invasion.
Once Tony returns from the battle, Bethany tells him the attack seemed to have been a distraction for more data theft. Afterwards, Stark Unlimited holds a press conference to assure the public that the crisis is over. In the middle of the interview, Tony declares that Iron Man is an ever-changing idea shared by Stark Unlimited, and that they all are Iron Man. Somewhere else, the Controller) boasts that Stark has realized by now that he's playing him; however, what he doesn't realize is that the Controller is using Bethany Cabe herself to bypass her own security systems without her knowledge, and that she's responsible of the data theft she's investigating.
Creative credits
Writers: Dan Slott
Interior art: Valerio Schiti
Color: Edgar Delgado
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