WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Iron Man #1, by Christopher Cantwell, Cafu, Frank D'Armata and VC's Joe Caramagna, on sale now.

In the new Iron Man series, Tony Stark is trying to reinvent himself and wants people to see him in a different light. However, at a party he held in his new brownstone with some elite scientific and industrial minds, he was the same old Stark.

Stark was at the party mingling with people he didn't want to talk to. When he ran across Patsy Walker, he found a reason to escape and headed out to look for crime in the Big Apple. Before he could leave, one more person stopped him with an idea for the billionaire industrialist to ponder.

The man was Fuller Tielhard, and he told Stark that he had an idea to share with him, something that could change everything. The idea is "lightning capture," and Tielhard said that he could capture a lightning strike - the equivalent of an atomic blast - and store it indefinitely. He compared it to a supercapacitor that could provide waste-free energy which can be harnessed, guided, and transported. Although Stark was speechless for a moment, he ultimately didn't take Tielhard seriously and blew him off. As he walked away, Tielhard told Stark to call him when he finds himself thinking about it later.

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Later that evening Stark and Hellcat stopped the classic villain Unicorn from stealing a book from a library. After the fight, Tony was mysteriously struck by lightning. The book that Unicorn was trying to steal was one of the original Gutenberg Bibles, and the lightning strike destroyed it. Additionally, the last page of the issue depicts Fuller Tielhard looking out the window of a brownstone with the Buckminster Fuller quote, "God is a verb" as the last words in the story. Even more noticeable was that the entire right side of Tielhard's face showed the universe.

The appearance of the universe within Tielhard's face could be a foreshadowing of Eternity, the godlike being whose entire body is solar systems and who is one of the original beings created by the Big Bang. With that in mind, there is the possibility that Tielhard might be the latest man to wear the Eternity Mask. This is a mask created by occultists from Eternity's substance that gives the wearer the power to equal anyone they face. This is a strong possibility, especially considering the mask showed up recently in Marvel Comics #1001, with the Masked Raider wearing it.

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However, thanks to previews of future issues, the identity of Tielhard might be clearer, and it means bad news for Stark, who not only blew him off but seems to have angered him. Korvac is scheduled to make a dramatic return to the Marvel Universe in the next issue. The celestial powered super villain first appeared in Jim Starlin and Steve Gerber's Giant-Size Defenders #3 as a technician from the 35th Century. However, his most notable moment came during The Korvac Saga in the pages of Avengers, where he decided to turn the Earth into a utopia. To do so, he killed both The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy, but was horrified at his actions, and brought them back.

Korvac has always believed that he knew what was best for the world, even at the cost of those meant to protect it. If he has an idea for this new power source he has ways to make sure people listen to him, even if it means dropping a lightning bolt down onto Iron Man himself. If Korvac shows up, and the Masked Raider wearing the Eternity Mask is not far behind, one snub from Tony Stark might have put the entire planet in danger from a truly god-like threat.

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