Tony Stark is set to relinquish his Iron Man suit in Marvel's Civil War II comic series, and a 15-year-old female Black genius will step into the role. Wiz
• Wiz kid Riri Williams comes to Stark’s attention when she builds her own Iron Man suit in her dorm at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Brian Michael Bendis, creator and writer of Iron Man, spoke to Time magazine about the development of the character.
• He said the inspiration came from his time in Chicago while working on a failed TV show about a young Black woman attending college who uses her smarts to rise up from the city’s violence.
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