Iron Man #24 - "Rings of the Mandarin, Chapter II"

[arbre_rieur]

"What manner of elf wouldn't hate a man of Iron, after all? All elves hate Iron. I'm really pushing the unusual, alien psychology of Malekith. The Elves simply aren't like us. Tony's been into space in my run, and I think my elves are at least as alien than anything he met up there." -- Kieron Gillen

Malekith the Accursed has gotten his hands on four Mandarin rings, so Iron Man's journeyed to his kingdom to do something about that.









Shevaun's big gun proves a resounding success:









The elf-bone in Iron Man's earpiece was cracked in the fighting, cutting off his inter-dimensional communications, but he has a solution to that problem:

Comments

[drtechnobabel]

Yeah, from how it began, you would expect the Mandarin Rings to find their hosts, and then there would be an Iron Man vs. The Ten Mandarins fight. Who would've guessed that this story would end up with Malekith chopping off people's hands and Tony Stark building elf-hunting armor?

[md84]

'Yeah, from how it began, you would expect the Mandarin Rings to find their hosts, and then there would be an Iron Man vs. The Ten Mandarins fight.'

Funny thing is, that probably was the rings' original plan before Malekith screwed things up.