CURIOUS

[simmysim.livejournal.com]

I made the following for a friend, to help clear her mind of bad art. It got me curious. The art is different for every arc, so we get a different Tony and a different Steve every few issues, but most people who read fic, or even just think about characters while they aren't reading comics, have a picture in their head that is their own representation of the character.



alright I decided to change them to links since they're stretching the screen and I hate that :||

Tony in my head collage. I thought I preferred Tony with a more long/lanky/angular look but uh lol apparently not!

Steve in my head collage.

Steve didn't surprise me at all, I am very aware that I like him to look like a fucking tank. xD
I was gonna be more comprehensive but life D:



Who is Tony and who is Steve in your head? What are your favorite looks? There are so many different variations of these guys, I'm really curious to see what some of you picture when you write and read!

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Tony's approach to fashion is very European in a way

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

Tony's consternation - not that a man who's worn pink "Superstar" tracksuits and purple ascots has any room to criticize

Heh. I just tie that look to Tony's metrosexuality. There's a certain 'fun' that the artist can do with Tony looks and clothing wise, and it will work. Whilce Portatio had Tony Stark in this random bolero top, I mean, random (but that's Portatio) but it worked, because it was Tony Stark. So I tend to see him as well, someone who's fashion forward enough to try new looks, and is willing to get it wrong. That's something I see with the Europeans that you don't get so much with American men.

Yeah, I do think of Tony's hair as wavy, because I grow up on 70s and 80s Stark with the thick, wavy hair, and that's why when Portatio had his hair spiralling into corkscrews, I could see it. It worked for him, just as how the shorter hair works for him now. He keeps it short enough so that it doesn't wave or kink.

Like I said further down thread, Marvel Adventures Iron Man is my ideal look for Tony Stark, but I'm alright with the 90s too, because he had the van dyke and the curly hair.

Re: Tony's approach to fashion is very European in a way

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

My first real intro to Iron Man was mainlining the entire drinking arc (from Demon in a Bottle through to Tony homeless on the street and then the whole Circuits Maximus era aftermath) a few years ago during one really bad week in February (I basically locked myself in my apartment the entire week with comics torrent downloads seanchai had sent me), so my formative Iron Man experience includes a lot of thick, wavy hair, lots of self-worth and depression issues on Tony's part, bad 80s clothing, and a bunch of covers like my icon.

Well, that, and the 1998 Captain America/Iron Man annual, which pretended to be about Steve & Tony fighting Modok on a desert island, but was actually about the two of them having a relationship fight.

Sorry?

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

My first real intro to Iron Man was mainlining the entire drinking arc (from Demon in a Bottle through to Tony homeless on the street and then the whole Circuits Maximus era aftermath) a few years ago during one really bad week in February

That? Must have been a bad week. It's one thing to read IM monthly, but to have an entire fiction dump on you? Whoa, I say, whoa.

Well, that, and the 1998 Captain America/Iron Man annual, which pretended to be about Steve & Tony fighting Modok on a desert island, but was actually about the two of them having a relationship fight.

WHAAAT? Do you have a link, or file share so I can look at this, plz?

Cheers