when am i again?

[saraid.livejournal.com]

okay. have read lots, but haven't gotten to civil war yet. what i need to know is, what's going on now? in the comics. is there an avengers comic atm? what's tony doing? what happened after? can i get a quick summary? it'll lead to fic, hopefully...most likely, okay, yeah, i'm gonna write it.

and speaking of writing, anyone want a co-author? i miss writing with a partner.

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[smilingskull.livejournal.com]

If you're at CW, then yeah, a lot has gone on since. :) At the moment we're in the back half of Marvel's current big company crossover, which is called Secret Invasion. Basically, a bunch of Skrulls have been stealthily infiltrating various teams, and Spiderwoman and Hank Pym were revealed to be Skrulls. Issue #7 (of 8 total) is coming out on Wednesday. After this there's going to be a new status quo in the MU, which going to be called Dark Reign. (Sort of like how post-CW series are labeled The Initiative.)

There are currently two Avengers teams, but the lines between the two, which were super defined at one point (The Mighty Avengers are the gov't sanctioned team lead by Tony who are always trying to arrest the rouge, underground group lead by Luke Cage, the New Avengers) are starting to blur with Sekrit!Invasion going on, because pretty much all of the major MU heroes (except for the X-men, who are STILL dealing with post M-Day stuff) are fighting Skrulls, including Nick Fury and Thor, who were previously MIA/presumed dead before SI.

So basically things are fucked, Tony's a mess (he's just come off a virus eating up his tech and nearly getting his ass kicked by a mutated teenager) and Cap's still dead.

Tony had two ongoing series, Invincible Iron Man and Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. but the DoS series was just handed over to War Machine, so now he's just got Invincible Iron Man, which just finished up a 6 issue arc where he beat the aforementioned mutated teenager, Zeke Stane. There is an ongoing Captain America series that just finished Burbaker's huge ass 42 issue arc dealing with the death of Steve and the fallout/aftermath, but that's all about Bucky (with a side of Sam and the Black Widow and some random Carol), which is not a bad thing, but not really Steve related at all.

If you want happy, awesome, and made of sheer win, I'd suggest reading Marvel Adventures: Avengers, where the Avengers get along, everyone is friends, alive, and rockin', the villains are hysterically cool/bad and Steve and Tony go on dates and play basketball together. :)

[pandanoai.livejournal.com]

now i wish there was an icon that flashed between: sekrit!invasion: a synopsis -&- Things are still fucked, Tony's a mess, and Cap's still dead.

God i wish they'd bring Cap back ;___;

[smilingskull.livejournal.com]

If I knew how to animate icons, I'd be all over that!

[pandanoai.livejournal.com]

if you get a chance to make the two panels i'd animate it :P

[smilingskull.livejournal.com]

Done! :D (It turned into 4 panels for the sake of space) With two different versions, even.

[pandanoai.livejournal.com]

Ha! Joy!

Thanks for the frames :D

(http://pics.livejournal.com/pandanoai/pic/000fke3k/) (http://pics.livejournal.com/pandanoai/pic/000fpskk/)

A perfect synopsis if there ever was one <3 (wait.... that kind of makes me sad ;__; stupid marvel >__<)

[bride-of-lister.livejournal.com]

So awesome! Can I snag with credit? To both of you?

[pandanoai.livejournal.com]

fine on my part <3-- lol

[bride-of-lister.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[smilingskull.livejournal.com]

Wow, I am so internet illiterate, how do you save animated icons? D:

[pandanoai.livejournal.com]

just right click- save image as- should work... is that not working?

[johanirae.livejournal.com]

Man, these icons make me sad... but AWESOMENESS. Can snag with credit?

[pandanoai.livejournal.com]

sounds good to me! :D

[hockeyiris.livejournal.com]

snagging, crediting. You beat me to the animating.

[crimsonquills.livejournal.com]

The Mighty Avengers are the gov't sanctioned team lead by Tony who are always trying to arrest the rouge, underground group lead by Luke Cage, the New Avengers

Strictly speaking, the Mighty Avengers are actually led by Carol (Ms. Marvel). It's just that, since they work for the government, they answer to SHIELD, which answers to Tony, so it often looks like the Mighty Avengers are led by Tony. But Carol has had some minor angst over him interfering with her leading her team, so I thought the hairsplitting was necessary. *g*

(Also, unless you meant that the New Avengers are all vaguely red colored, I believe that should be "rogue", not "rouge".)

Otherwise, awesome summary! :-D

[smilingskull.livejournal.com]

Whoops, thanks! I kinda forget that Carol's actually team leader, even thought that was established like way back when. I blame it on my BLINDING!RAGE at current comics, hehe. ;)

Total laugh at the red colored, by the way! Doesn't everyone (kinda on both teams) have a costume that's red/yellow/gold/back, or some version of that? Someone (besides Danny and Peter) needs to bring some color into the mix! I demand the return of Luke's old costume.

[crimsonquills.livejournal.com]

I kinda forget that Carol's actually team leader, even thought that was established like way back when.

Heh. Yeah, I think Tony forgets that she's team leader, too, sometimes. He's...just a bit of a control freak. :-D

Total laugh at the red colored, by the way! Doesn't everyone (kinda on both teams) have a costume that's red/yellow/gold/back, or some version of that? Someone (besides Danny and Peter) needs to bring some color into the mix! I demand the return of Luke's old costume.

You know, I never thought of it, but you're right! Geez, when did that happen? Apparently red, yellow, gold, and black are the designated cool colors and any superhero who wears something else is cheesy. Except Peter, who will never not be cool. *g*

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. but the DoS series was just handed over to War Machine, so now he's just got Invincible Iron Man

Oh that figures. ellyr_in_ink *just* picked a subscription that involved Iron Man, so of course she picked DOS.

Gotta remember to tell her she may want to cancel that.
Of Course granted no Marvel comics ever makes sense on its own, so maybe not -_-