cap_ironman | Question to the comm: the five key moments of Tony Stark

Hail fellow slashers of the iron and shield. I'm girding myself to do a Tony Stark centric fic, and I need to know what do you think are the five key moments of Tony Stark in marvel canon?

For instance, I have:

1. Death of Tony's parents (and him subsequently inheriting Stark Industries)

2. Tony's alcoholism: nuff said.

3. The Crossing; where Tony is mind controlled by Kang the Conqueror (apologies if I get this mixed up, I'm going off memory here) and he becomes a traitor in the Avengers' ranks. It's important because in Avengers Disassembled no one believed him that he was being mind controlled (although it had happened to him a decade before)

4. The death of Rumiko: she was around for 85 issues, and Tony tried to have a relationship with her in a way that he didn't with Cabe or that woman who shot him.

5. Civil War.

These are the ones that I can name off the top of my head, but I might be wrong, and might have overlooked some other key issues, like when Stark faked his own death, or was unable to walk for a time, or when he fell out with Captain America during The Crossing.

So, help?

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The thing is, I'm contemplating *cough* writing a Tony centric story. I am scared shitless, but it's a story I've always wanted to write, but didn't think I have the talent to.

I still don't think I have the talent to *hysterical laughter*, but SI has forced my hand, and I think I need to, just for my own personal catharsis.

The thing is, I think I'm looking at a ten year span of his life, starting from the death of Rumiko (or The Crossing, I'm unsure) and running up to the cusp of Civil War.

I'm at the point of doing time lines, and trying to reaquaint myself with about 10 years of canon. I'm scared that I'm going to suck, but I tell myself if it's bad, I won't post.

But I need to write the fic, I fear.

I hear you on trying to catch up with ten years of canon. I'm relatively a newbie in the comics world, and the fandom can be pretty cut throat and pretentious sometimes.

I'm relatively a newbie in the comics world, and the fandom can be pretty cut throat and pretentious sometimes.

I hear you. I grew up on comics, from like, early eighties to about mid ninties. I left, and I've only been back a couple of years off and on (read the odd trade in my years of fallow, so I knew about Civil War, etc), and I've only really gotten intensely into comics (in terms of buying and collecting my own) in the last six months or so.

Yeah, the fandom can be catty, especially teh Marvel vs DC fights that people have.

You can only do you, you know?

Yeah, I never really read comics growing up because to me it was always clearly stigmatized as being a boys club sort of thing. Everything I knew about super heroes came from the cartoons in the 90's and even then I only really followed Batman and Spider-man. It was only a few months ago, that I actually got actively involved in comics.

Interesting story... it was when the Iron Man movie came out and my comic book geek friend was spazzing about it and raving about how WE HAD TO SEE THIS MOVIE. I didn't WANT to, but I agreed as long as he'd see Speed Racer with me the following week. As it happens he briefed me on the basics of Iron Man and I loved the movie. And, as I have a particular passion for art, when I was watching the documentary of the comic book character on the DVD back in September and they mentioned Extremis I fell in love. Then one day in the book store I saw the trade sitting on the shelf... and I was completely lost in comics from there.

Personally, as a newbie into comics, I found that getting my hands on a lot of the "Essential" volumes (and I had friends recommend arcs that were available in trade) to help me get a feel for important moments, etc. And Civil War totally devoured my soul...

I'm still afraid of my comic book store though. But that's probably because when there are other people in there, they're all men and they stare at me like they can't believe someone like me is buying comics.

I got into comics via my brother. My mum bought him comics because he just didn't read. So, he got into it and liked it. Then, I got into it and liked it, as well as my younger brothers. It also helped that we had friends at school that collected comics and we traded. So, I was into Daredevil, all the X-titles, all the Spidermen Titles and the odd Iron Man title that I'd pick up.

I didn't really get into DC until high school, when someone gave us an entire backlog of batman and green lantern corps comics because he'd misplaced ours.

I fell out of love with comics in the 90s when image came on the scene, because it was all about the art and less about the story and people were going mad for image, and marvel and DC were just following in their wake. So I stopped reading comics then and only started in 2005, because my library started collecting the trades. When Civil War came around, I was ready.

And now, I'm here.

Oh god, the Crossing. After that whole fiasco with Onslaught, when the heroes all returned alive (Heroes Return), he said he actually remembered being all three versions of Tony--himself, the teenager, and the man he was on Counter-Earth (who was an interestingly messed-up gent in his own right).

And then he court-martialed himself, but didn't seem satisfied with the result (everyone was very understanding and let him off the hook), and that's when he created the telepath-blockers.

So while they did give him a bit of reaction (itself somewhat unusual in comics), they never really went through with it. And the next time they ran into Kang, I sort of expected him to have a Moment, but he didn't react at all.

*cough* Anyway, I told you I was kind of fascinated with it. But the Crossing was the end of volume 1 of the Iron Man comic, and Heroes' Return was the beginning of volume 3, so that's a lot more material than Rumiko's death, which happened near the end of that run. Granted there's some very satisfying stuff in there--Ty Stone and the sentient armor, off the top of my head--but still. That's over 80 issues (1998 to 2005).

By the way, I hunted that stuff up on this link to all the Iron Man covers and their publication dates (http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/iron-man/7), which might be useful to you.

That helps me a lot. Better than the scribbles I have. I have like, a sort of grid where stuff crosses. I love the crossing, but I wouldn't touch it.

Oh god, the Crossing. After that whole fiasco with Onslaught, when the heroes all returned alive (Heroes Return), he said he actually remembered being all three versions of Tony--himself, the teenager, and the man he was on Counter-Earth (who was an interestingly messed-up gent in his own right).

I read these issues when I was a teen. I'd buy these comics with my allowance - and this was back in the day when money was more of a concern than it is now.

Oh, Tony.

Heh, yeah. I didn't follow Marvel very much at that time, but it looked kind of interesting...till it went all weird near the end and they seemed to begin and then drop three completely different story arcs in a row (which I learned much later was exactly what had happened :D ).

I remember people griping that the X-Men seemed to be the only thing left, though.

Oi, I figured that you're looking for info on technology, and I have a blog that I occasionally post nifty technology news to, so I could actually pay attention to posting stuff to it and give you the link.

http://bluesrat.blogspot.com (http://bluesrat.blogspot.com)

I generally just forward technology news to it, so it's not deep reading or anything. It should be open for anyone to post on, so if you find anything on there potentially useful and/or want to know more about it, I could look into it and point you toward further information.

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