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They did so at the climax of Iron Man Legacy's Industrial Revolution arc.

There, they'd cornered Tony Stark, whose work to revitalize a neighborhood under their control (undertaken in the course of his time with Circuits Maximus) they'd interpreted as an attack on them personally.

Issue #10 ended with his Illuminati friends coming out of the sky to save him.

Issue #11 opened with the two cabals going at it.

( They paired off like you'd expect them to. )

Over in Iron Man Legacy, he's been displaying his characteristic talent for building things out of seeming nothings, be they companies out of run-down factories or innovations out of the stuff of junkyards.

And since this is Tony, he's also had to build weaponry out of that junkyard, to fend off the Serpent Society's mercenary attack in last month's #8.

(There's some of this week's #9 after that, if you're on the lookout for spoilers.. oh, and if you didn't know, this takes place while Tony's down with Circuits Maximus.)

( Whose capabilities he announces, as he always does, with a great big BOOM! )

Nor is he a lion, even if he's growing the mane to match in Iron Man Legacy #6.

He's got a reason for not shaving, though: Obadiah Stane's taken his company, Namor's convinced his fellow Illuminati to let Tony go it alone, and all he's got to his name is a set of golf clubs.

(  And to top it off, the first person he meets wandering the streets of LA is a man blathering about Alphabet agencies..  )

so, Ultimate Armor Wars is made of Tony Stark, cool ordinance, and armor fights.

Yay!

(  Now, when issue the first of four left off, Tony was tracking down his stolen database of Starkstuff.  )