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garrideb ([identity profile] garrideb.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] cap_ironman2013-03-14 03:37 pm

AvX meta/reaction post with scans

I recently finished reading Avengers vs. X-Men, and instead of writing a long rant I decided to pick out my ten favorite things and highlight those with scans and commentary. My number one favorite thing was the Steve & Tony interaction, unsurprisingly, so I've got a dozen scans of them being BFFs. Also relevant to this community is my fifth favorite thing: Tony's terribly unoriginal suicidal plan to save his friends.

It's here on DreamWidth and here on LiveJournal.

[identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com 2013-03-14 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
For my sins I bought the delux collected edition because I couldn't be bothered with the comics and the discount was excellent.

You were right to avoid the cage fights.

Some of the art is very pretty (though not normally the way the characters are drawn) and there is occasional good dialogue. However, this does not excuse such things a polar bear in Antarctica (or are we supposed to believe Wolvie detoured to the Arctic just to pick up a skin so he could do a Empire call out), or excusing people acting OOC by saying "You're acting like me," as Tony does in the panel you scanned and as other people do elsewhere. Then there is the complete (and illogical) retcon of the entire Phoenix history.... *sigh*.
Edited 2013-03-14 21:20 (UTC)

[identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com 2013-03-15 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
I need to go back and check, now you've put doubt in my mind, but I recall the Savage Land at that point...

[identity profile] phoenixmetaphor.livejournal.com 2013-03-16 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I commented on your lj post but apparently I was marked as spam :( Woe.