Spoiler Sunday--Iron Man Vs. The [REDACTED]!!

Look, I'm going to spoil the living hell out of the end of this week's Iron Man #18, because it's too cool not to share.

But if you haven't read it yet, well, you don't want to read this post. Unless you don't read Iron Man, in which case maybe this will make you want to read it.

Whatever. Spoilage will commence after the 5 Iron Man images. See you then...

Still with us? OK, here we go...

Here's the situation: Last time we saw the Mandarin, he revealed that each of his rings actually held the soul of an alien being, and he was trying to free them (in order to better rule the world, of course). Then, he kinda died, but the body and rings were never recovered (duh).

Meanwhile, in this issue Tony and his newly discovered brother are going to completely remake the world in order to save it, because Stark=Arrogant ass (you can look it up...that's literally in the dictionary*)! (*editor's note--no it's not**) (**author's note--but it should be!)

So, anyway, at the very end of this issue, out of absolutely nowhere...

Holy crap, Kieron Gillen is totally stealing the Green Lantern riff and applying it to the Mandarin!! His rings are going to create the Mandarin Corps!!

How is it possible that no one else has thought of this in the past 50 years?!?

Now let's just hope Gillen doesn't go so far as to adopt the "emotional spectrum"...