Following the big reveal over the weekend at Special Edition: NYC, Marvel is conducting one of their semi-regular "Next Big Thing" conference calls dedicated solely to "Invincible Iron Man." The series, the first new ongoing series announced in Marvel's post-"Secret Wars" lineup, comes from writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist David Marquez and will feature Tony Stark interacting with new armor, new villains and a new love interest.

Talking "Invincible Iron Man" with the comic press today are Bendis and Marquez as well as Executive Editor Tom Brevoort and Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso. CBR will be updating this article live with a full report of the discussion. Up first, take a peek at some of Marquez's designs and linework from "Invincible Iron man."

Marvel PR's Chris D'Lando kicked off the discussion by pointing out that eight months will pass after the end of "Secret Wars." "Invincible Iron Man" #1 marks the first announced title of the new line, which will also be colored by Justin Ponsor. The "All-New, All-Different Marvel" promo pieces, illustrated by Marquez, came up in conversation with Alonso saying that the images were put out to highlight characters they are going to focus.

"It's going to be a change in the Marvel Universe," said Alonso. "Iron Man is front and center there for a reason. We're all in on Iron Man now. It speaks to the talent we've coerced into working on the book."

Marquez talked about working on the pieces, saying that he was "partial to seeing Miles" in the lineup. He also enjoyed designing the new Iron Man armor and Wolverine costume.

Editor Brevoort spoke to the decision to getting Bendis on the book, saying that he's been trying to get the writer on the book for a long time, dating back to "Avengers." "It was the 'Daredevil' run where he took the character and pushed him into new territory and found new things to say about him and the world he lived in," said Brevoort. "He was great on that run at surprising me as a reader. These were all useful traits in the world of Tony Stark, who is a character that's had a lot of examination in the last ten years. There aren't as many classic Iron Man runs as Daredevil, and I had the instinct that Brian could pick up the ball and do something special with it." Brevoort said this is the first time in years that timing has worked out, allowing Bendis to take on Tony Stark on a regular basis.

"David's work I've loved since the 'Fantastic Four: Season One' story he did," said Brevoort. "I think you can really see it in the design of the new Iron Man armor. You can tell it's Iron Man, but all the lines on it are different from any Iron Man you've seen before. That combination is going to bring a lot of fresh thinking to this character, thinking that he needs. We want to see new villains, new supporting cast, new players -- I want to let Brian push Tony Stark into places we haven't been before."

"I don't plan on doing any of that," joked Bendis.

"The online response has been overwhelming and beautiful," said Bendis. "We've watched some amazing 'Iron Man' runs in the last ten years, including Matt Fraction's seminal run. A lot of amazing stuff has gone on with Tony in the last few years, not counting the amazing movies."

D'Lando shifted the discussion to the new armor, which is new and sleek and also has the ability to transform into any of Iron Man's previous suits. "When Brian and I first started talking about this with Tom, the big bullet point we wanted to cover was the armor," said Marquez. "We wanted to move it forward. As far as slimming it down, over time technology tends to get smaller and lighter as opposed to bigger. That went into the design process, making sure it wasn't too busy with too many lines. As far as the different armors, as the series progresses we'll see an opportunity for any artist -- myself included -- to be creative with the design."

"I gave this a lot of thought," said Bendis. "You think about how not only does technology get slicker, but it does a lot more. Look at what your phone does. This is the armor version of that. It's not hard to imagine a design that transforms for the missions it needs to do and still has the roller skates. They are the roller skates of the future! That's exciting. Thinking way back, years ago, we were going through all the characters and saying beyond the fact that Marvel owns them, what are they about? What's the basic idea of what a character is? Someone had written down that Tony is a boy and his toy, a teen and his hot rod. It's Tony always building himself the coolest toy he can build." Bendis said this conversation initially lead to Warren Ellis' "Extremis" storyline.

One big mystery left by outgoing writer Kieron Gillen is the idea that Tony was adopted. "God bless Kieron for opening this door," said Bendis. "In my personal life, two of my four children are adopted and adoption is a very large part of my non-comic book life. Over the years I've been offered to write graphic novels about adoption and the process, and I always kind of shy away from it because of the weird idea of writing a story about your kids. It's a line I didn't want to cross. But this? Kieron set me up beautifully here. We have adult Tony Stark who has a lot of confidence but has other things he wasn't confident about, and there will be a quest here to find out who he is and where he came from. That's interesting and exciting. We have cool new armor and a new man in Tony Stark who is going to try to figure out what he's really made of, what drives him and what made him unique."

Regarding the aforementioned eight-month gap and the big last page reveal in the first issue, Bendis said that the run will be a very good time. "Tony has a lot of very cool things, the whole Iron Man mythology has a lot of cool things, but there are some things -- the villain bench is not as deep as his peers," said Bendis. "One of his super villains will show up in the first issue, but his bench isn't as deep as Spider-Man's. I went to David Marquez and asked to see the villains in his sketchbook. Lo and behold, it's the coolest looking stuff in the sketchbook. From there we built ideas, David has strong premises for villains to build a story around. You'll see hints of them in the first issue. You're not going to see them all at once. They'll appear over the course of the first year. There's a major Iron Man villain, a namebrand villain, that's front and center in the storyline. On the last page, a major Marvel player shows up on the last page with a whopper and a doozy course change in the Marvel Universe." He added that Tony may have found a woman worth "growing up for" and that there's a major Marvel character coming in to join the supporting cast.

With the questions opened up to the press, the team was asked about Arno Stark's role in the book. Bendis confirmed he will be in the book. "There are some things I'm going to be coy about because I don't want to spoil 'Secret Wars' or other books," said Bendis.

When asked about changing this creative team's lead character from Miles Morales to Tony Stark, Marquez said that this is a chance to do design work from the ground up instead of inherenting a design from a previous artist. "There are so many new elements in the design that it feels like starting a new book," added Bendis. "Collaborators like us, we've figured out a way to up our game. Just as David was getting sick of drawing webs and that inverted web costume, here comes this sleek armor. You see that lack of linework on the armor, that's in contrast to that Miles Morales design."

"It's a great design," added Marquez about Miles, to which Bendis added that the Ultimate Spider-Man costume gets hard to draw repeatedly.

In regards to the book's supporting cast, Bendis said there's one new member of the supporting cast and there's a "sassy" new A.I. in Tony's armor. "I think by the end of issue #2 you'll see a lot of the pieces have come together," said Bendis.

Tom Taylor's "Superior Iron Man" series was brought up next, with the team being asked how much that version of Tony will feed into this one. "I've been on top of this since he started 'Superior,'" said Bendis. "Everything in that run will be touched upon. Things in our book will happen because of that one. Nothing from Tony's life, in terms of continuity, will be ignored."

"You'll see that in the first or second scene in issue one," added Brevoort. "Where Tony is now, it's all result of where he's been over the last few years, from Tom and Kieron and Matt."

The writer said that the book's first arc will look more like his work on "Daredevil" and "Spider-Man," in that it's a multi-year storyline that's digestible in chapters. "Each issue will have a lot to say, and we'll have collections of similar size that you're used to, but as one drama brings itself to conclusion I like that another one pops up," said Bendis. "Tony has so many balls in the air that even if he knocks one bad guy down, there's another one. For those that followed us on 'Spider-Man,' this is similar in construct because I like buying books like that."

Bendis stated that there are no plans at the moment for a crossover with other books, because Tony is so involved in so many aspects of the Marvel Universe. "One reason I'm excited about doing Tony's book is that every time I've written him, it's been part of a big event or a big team," said Bendis. "The idea here is to really get under Tony's skin and examine Tony. You will feel his place in the Marvel Universe but I want these storylines to stand on their own. I think that's what fans of Tony want out of this book."

The new Avengers lineup will feature a number of teen characters, to which Bendis said that some of them would "absolutely" show up in "Invincible Iron Man."

Prior to "Secret Wars," we saw Iron Man and Captain America go out locked in combat. Bendis said we will see these characters interact again. "I like their relationship," he said. "I think they challenge each other in ways others do not. With Steve's status quo being what it is, there are new layers to explore."

When asked about inspiration, Marquez said he looked to a lot of anime and technological stuff. "That's the short answer," he said.

Bendis said his inspiration comes from a shot from a cut of "Iron Man 3" where Tony picks up a screwdriver from the rubble of his house and has a smirk on his face that indicates he can rebuild using just that tool. "It just really got me all jazzed up," said Bendis. "There's no 'Iron Man 4' coming in the next couple years because there's all these other movie things coming, so this is my 'Iron Man 4.' This is what I would do with Tony and that screwdriver. You see that screwdriver in the first issue as an Easter egg. As far as how I write Tony, I spend a lot of time reading books by or about really smart people. I'm not that smart, so I have to... I read about how people of this intelligence, how their brains work and solve their problems. This book called 'On Intelligence' was written by one of the creators of the smart phone and it was all about the problems people have with programming artificial intelligence and the difference between computers and the brain... That inspired my Tony Stark."

When asked about new villains, Bendis said some of them will be people who have invented tech beyond what Tony has. "There will also be some mystical villains, something that's a lot harder for technology to deal with," said Bendis. "There are people with a different idea of what the future should be. Tony is fighting for a futurist ideal, and someone else is fighting for a different one, so they'll have different opinions about what the world will be. Tony needs his Magneto. It's not that they believe in something differently, it's that they have a different way to go about it."

In light of all the other identity changes going on -- with new Thors, Wolverines and Captain Americas -- Bendis talked about why Tony stayed the same. "There are a lot of changes he's going through," said Bendis. "The changes aren't as cosmetic as other books, but Tony will be going through a lot that's different than he's used to.

The movies have recently hit on Tony Stark's flaws, him being his own worst enemy and his ambition leading to big -- sometimes not the best -- changes in the world. Bendis stated that there's a version of that in the comics, too, but things that have gone well instead. "I think Tony will always be faced with, and we talk a bit about this in 'Ultimate End,' is that a futurist thinks of what the world will need in ten years and invent it before it's needed," said Bendis. "But with that is someone who looks to the future and sees a bunch of different ways it could go. Tony has to pick the one that will service the world the best, but it doesn't mean other things aren't coming. It's frustrating to be a futurist but not in control of the destiny of the world. Heavy lies the crown; having all this knowledge is a gigantic burden and trying to do the right thing with what you have, knowing you don't have everything, is a noble and frustrating quest for the character."

The title of the book sees the return of the adjective "Invincible," which was Brevoort's decision. "I'm a '70s guy and all through that era, the two lines was the 'Invincible' logo," said Brevoort. "It's what I think of at my core as Iron Man. One of the things I asked for when doing the new suit is that it be red and gold, because we've been away from it for a while so now it looks new and exciting -- especially the way Justin Ponsor colors it up. To me, it's as much a part of the book as 'Amazing' is to Spider-Man or 'Incredible' is to Hulk."

When asked about incoming new readers brought on with the new #1 issue, Bendis said that a lot of people know Iron Man. "It's hard to find anyone who doesn't at any age," he said. "Iron Man is out there and it's been amazing to watch the reaction to the character from Marvel announcing their first movie and people going, 'really, Iron Man?' to him being the crown jewel. It's basically me dealing with what people think about him already and then adding to it. It's taking what they know and giving them some new stuff and some stuff they like and adding new stuff they'll like to it."

"It's a remarkable thing what's happened over the last ten years," said Brevoort. "Iron Man is, in a global sense, the character that is most associated with the Marvel of today. He is to Marvel today what Spider-Man was in the '60s or '70s -- nothing against Spider-Man. That's really opened our eyes and let us make a concerted effort to put Iron Man front and center at the forefront and core of the 'All-New All-Different Marvel Universe.' He's the most recognizable and embraced character in every other medium, and we're doing the same in publishing."

To close things up, D'Lando asked if two police detectives -- the ones that bear a strong resemblance to Bendis and Marquez -- would also make the jump from "Ultimate Spider-Man" to "Invincible Iron Man" along with the creative team.

"I made a mistake because I learned that Disney now owns us," joked Bendis. "We'll be showing up in 'Phineas and Ferb' and 'Star Wars,' I think."

"Invincible Iron Man" #1 lands in stores in October