Cap_Ironman Weekly News, Week Ending 30 July 2012

[muccamukk]

Hello and welcome to the weekly cap_ironman/cap_ironman newsletter.

News we've all been waiting for: Who will be writing Invincible Iron Man after Matt Fraction leaves. There's good news and bad news, on this point. The good news: Kieron Gillen on script. The Bad: Greg Land on pencils. LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND! In other Marvel Now! news (anyone else feel like doing that Middleman "!!!!!" thing every time they say "Marvel Now"?): concept art for the Captain America redesign. Hockey pads! Excellent. Cap's title will be written by Rick Remender with pencils by John Romita Jr, incidentally.

I don't know if anyone's reading Ults, but if you're thinking about it, Steve's back on the team this arc, so it might be a good time to try. Marvel.com has a list of Ult Cap highlights. I'm with them until they hit Jason Aaron's Ultimate Comics Captain America. Under no circumstances read that comic!

Apparently ABC is looking at making some kind of show set in the same universe as The Avengers, but probably not having Steve and Tony :(. I guess CE and RDJ would be kind of pricey for weekly television. Still, could be interesting if it pans out (which thus far live action Marvel TV has yet to do).

Two random Iron Man things: MoneySupermarket.com has worked out the cost of being Iron Man (spoiler alert: a lot!). Also, Hot Toys has made Iron Man Mark VII.


Fic:
alchemyalice wrote Armed and Dangerous 'Verse: Impulse and Reflexes
hawkstout wrote Storms of New Mexico
paxnirvana wrote All the Leaves Are Brown, And the Sky Is Gray: Chapter Nine of ?
tracy7307 wrote Found
reona32 wrote Moderate to Severe: Chapter One of ? and Chapter Two of ?
cluegirl wrote Five Times Steve Rogers Rubbed Tony Stark Exactly the Wrong Way (And One Time He Didn't): #4 -- Four Left Feet and #5 -- We Are Shangri La
cauldronofdoom wrote Freely Given: Part Two
hawkstout wrote The Touch of Frost
tresmaxwell wrote The Altar of Human Sacrifice
aubkae wrote many names in history, none of them are ours: chapter five of eight

Podfic and Icons
intransitive recorded The Idiot Box by margo_kim and Average Avengers Local Chapter 7 of New York City by hetrez
lucre_noin made Steve/Tony Comics Icons

Other Stuff
inkinthesky recced a cute comic
paxnirvana posted a discussion of Captain America and Iron Man #634
muck_a_luck posted a discussion of Charlie Stross v. Tony Stark
tonks07 posted about the upcoming Civil War Audio Drama


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Comments

[jiokra.livejournal.com]

*crosses fingers for EMH: Live Action* *sobs alone surrounded by cats*

Although, I don't see why a live action Avengers show couldn't be made with different actors. It would have to be its own thing and not a spin-off of the movies for it to work, but :( How I ache for a live action tv show now. I would gobble that up and beg for greenlights.

[muccamukk]

I really wanted that aka jessica jones show they were talking about, and the cloak and dagger one. But a street-level Gotham Central kind of thing might be neat too. I'm not sure what it would be doing that Alphas isn't though.

I think the actual Avengers might be expensive for weekly tv. Iron Man's armour is a lot of special effects. Would be nice though.

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

The Jessica Jones show just made the most sense. You get a weekly detective/crime show, with superheroes making cameos. What's not to love?

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

My roommate basically threatened to set things on fire if the series is not Heroes for Hire.

[osiris-ghost.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've read anything pencilled by Greg Land before, so I went and googled him, now I’m sad ;-;

Why do you do this to your Iron Man fans, Marvel? Why?!

[muccamukk]

I once heard his career summarised as "He traces porn. And it's not even new porn. He's been tracing the same porn since the '80s." He did used to be a lot better.

This book may in fact be cursed.

[muccamukk]

He's often pretty in other titles. He's over in Daredevil right now with Samnee on art. White shirt with rolled up sleeves, mmmmm.

[makowe_pola]

The redesign of Cap's uniform looks cool and there are moments when it makes more sense than previous ones. Looks nice, like something I'd like to see in an action movie. And I feel so so so sorry for anyone who has to draw it over and over again with so many details. I salute them :D

I also try to keep up with Ultimates, but the trick they did with different set of artist for every chapter makes it hard to read. Also the story hasn't convinced me to keep up with every issue, so now I'm just waiting for Marvel to publish second vol as the softcover to catch up.

[muccamukk]

I like everything except the knee pads. I get, practically speaking, why he'd want them, but... knee pads? On Captain America? Really? I gather they're will be a lot of simplification happening in terms of art.

I'm also trade waiting on that event except for Miles' comic. Mostly because I have the rest of Ults in trade, and I don't want to mess up my collection.

[makowe_pola]

A bit late, but now that I got the Avengers movie artbook, the new suit looks like they are trying to fit it visually to the movie!verse Cap (ultimate Cap had also some extra padding on his knees, that might not look exactly like pads, but close). Knee pads included. It's pretty much same thing they did to tie in nick Fury jr., so he looks like Jackson and has same design in majority of big verses.

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who took a look at the whole "cost of being Iron Man" thing and wondered if they were pricing based on market value or cost of materials + Tony's time? Since it's all homemade, so to speak, the price would be significantly lower for Tony than for someone to purchase a similar piece of equipment from the defense industry market.

I also have no idea how they're figuring out the cost of a 100% fictional arc reactor when we don't even know most of the materials that make it. I mean, they're valuing JARVIS, a fully functional AI capable of human-standard reasoning and problem solving at only $10 million.

[muccamukk]

I don't get why the suits are increasingly expensive, either, as it seems like he'd be building on previous innovations and less time would be needed (if we're billing for Tony's time).

I'm pretty sure the arc reactor isn't nuclear, either.

[paxnirvana.livejournal.com]

Palladium isn't radioactive. It's actually in the same group of elements as platinum. It can cause contact rashes, however, like nickel, in sensitive people but it's pretty inert.

[paxnirvana.livejournal.com]

Ultimates! My refuge from 616fuckery right now! (and oh man isn't that odd to say... considering the cluster-fuck of Millar's Ultimate X-Men is what made me give up on American comics in disgust entirely back in 2003 or so... *wince*)

I will maybe admit to making an unnatural squeaky noise of joy when Cap returned to Ultimates-- *shifty eyes* And when Tony started teasing him immediately. *^____^*

Now if Steve can just not be a complete dick to Miles... *frets*