Sort-of Girl-Tony and Girl-Cap

[valtyr]

I just finished Hypervelocity; initial response is that it's wacky, and needs further consideration. I expect most of you have already read it.
My favourite page was, unsurprisingly, the reference to Captain America.

Spoilers for Hypervelocity below the cut.



There's a computer avatar called Absynthe, and she's pretty hot if you like goth chicks. At one point she appears dressed as the Avengers.

Apart from the eye colour, this is so exactly how I see a female Tony Stark.




(Also the Cap is very hot; although I find it hard to picture any Cap with piercings.)

Anyone have interesting thoughts on Hypervelocity they'd like to share?

Comments

[benphrinse-rio.livejournal.com]

Female Cap is a bit disturbing, and pretty much the exact opposite of Steve's version of Cap.

[valtyr]

I keep looking at it and thinking, "There must be some circumstance in which Captain America would be a hot pierced goth girl," but I cannot think of it.

I suppose if you think of it as Cyberpunk Cap it works a little better.. instead of super-soldier serum she has a cybernetically enhanced nervous system and so on. Because in the Dark and Gritty cyberpunk future, justice and liberty are counterculture ideas, so of course she's a goth. And Tony is a moderately corrupt CEO (which among cyberpunk CEOs makes her the shining light of virtue) who provides covert support to Cap and sends her 'bodyguard' along to help out. Also Tony keeps Cap's cybernetics bleeding edge, which involves a lot of Cap taking off her clothes and Tony touching her with great care and attention.

Not that I have thought on this at any great length, mind.

Hypervelocity... it was... interesting

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

I remember liking the fact that Tony was having fun. The references to Napoleon Dynamite, and the fact that Tony was thinking his way out of things. I love seeing issues where Tony is engaging, and showing what makes him brilliant.

It's crack, glorious crack.

I need to reread, but I have a lot of canon to power through, alas.

Re: Hypervelocity... it was... interesting

[valtyr]

Hah, yes. Who records emergency messages with dancing robots? It's so nice to see a Tony not taking himself seriously, and being intelligent.

So much canon! I just found a new comic exchange shop and bought several old one - including a Capwolf one. I have not yet dared open it for fear it cannot live up to the concept of werewolf Captain America.

[sdroid.livejournal.com]

I loved Hypervelocity greatly <3 I thought the story and the art was fantastic. It was just plan fun. I was so happy when the Hypervelocity armor showed up in Fraction's recent Five Nightmares, even if it was only for a panel.

[perrypadfoot.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahahah! Her cowl says France!

[valtyr]

I laughed quite a lot. I'm going to have to check, but I imagine this antedates Ult!Cap's famous 'stands for France' line.

Yeah, it does

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

"Does this A stand for France?" comedy gold. It's almost as good as Miller's, "Are you retarded? Do you know who I am? I'm the goddamn Batman."

[lilpocketninja.livejournal.com]

I LOVE that mini.

[northern-star.livejournal.com]

Thor's hammer says "if she be hot"? /dies laughing!

[valtyr]

In the Marvel Universe that wouldn't really limit it much, would it?

[pensive]

I loved Hypervelocity. It was very cerebral, which is always what I wished Iron Man had more of. It's good on the brute force, but any time we see Tony using his real superpower (his brain), I get all giddy.

[valtyr]

Yes! They have so many superheroes who can smash things - it would be nice to see the smart ones show it off a bit. Of course, you do get the creator limitation problem - it's hard for the author to write a character being much smarter than the author, and no disrespect to comic authors, Tony Stark should be far far more intelligent for any of them.

[pensive]

Tony Stark should be far far more intelligent for any of them.


(not hard to do XD)

This.

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

It was very cerebral, which is always what I wished Iron Man had more of. It's good on the brute force, but any time we see Tony using his real superpower (his brain), I get all giddy.

This. I remember liking Extremis Execute for that same reason, when Tony starts to isolate variables and focus on who's really controlling his brain.

I do miss that concept in modern day Iron Man, for serious.

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Yay for Hypervelocity! I actully called my friends from the airport, having just finished it, and cried in anguish, "Oh no! 2.0 is dead?!? AUGHHH!"

So then I wrote a ficcy script for a sequel because I just couldn't let go. Heh.

I loved the insights into Tony's personality as reflected by 2.0. And I loved the fact that not all Tony's sentient armors go rogue -- 2.0 was a good son, worthy of his creator. :D

(And yes, even though Suicide Girl was deliberately screwing with 2.0's mind, Girl!Cap looked pretty hot.)

[valtyr]

Yes, it's nice to see AIs that don't automatically go evil. I mean, really, why would they?

I did like that in the Iron Man film, the two 'AI' were reliable, helpful and non-evil. Made a nice change - and should they do the sentient armour story, will give it good context.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

My mental image of girl Tony looks an awful lot like that, too, except with blue eyes and minus the piecings.

Hypervelocity was pure tech-geek, cracky fun, and also it made Tony being borderline/very mild aspergers almost-but-not-quite-canon, which made me & seanchai happy by validating one of our more out-there Tony-characterization theories (it explains the savant-level engineering abilities and the fact that he's kind of bad with people and feelings when he's not putting up his playboy facade).

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Tony being borderline/very mild aspergers

It explains so much about Tony too.

[mask-of-glamour.livejournal.com]

oh god...that is HOT...i love gender switches!! female!ironman is sexy as hell, and famale!thor is even sexier...thank you for sharing this!!!! *massive bear hug*

Emily

[twins-eternal.livejournal.com]

Do you think Hypervelocity is worth a buy?
I've heard about it by way of scans_daily, and the whole cyberpunk/techno stuff has me tempted.


And for the female!Cap, I personally think she looks better when you can see her hair, the Hypervelocity version reminds me of that Cap Megapost on scans_daily with the femm!Cap who had stars on her breasts that looked like strategically placed pasties.

I have to admit that the cover isn't far from what I think Femm!Tony would look like, but my personal "Tony" (mainly for comic reference) is this lady here, but with darker hair:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=16727563
and
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=16727569

Yeah, it's worth a buy

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

It's fun which is a plus. I must admit, I don't mind the art, but I think it went overboard with the inking. I remember the look of the comic being 'dark' which was a contrast to the bright, poppy, cracktastic feel of the narrative.

For instance, we see Tony flashing back to his hellbent youth. Riding on a bike with a girl on his back, cranked up with alcohol. Or there's the fact that Tony makes an allusion to the 'most important part of his body', then lets the silence sink in before saying, "You pervs, I meant my brain."

It's just fun. If you're unsure, flip through it in a store, or buy it second hand online.

But it's a fuuuuuun comic, in a way that Stark hasn't had for a time.

[valtyr]

I found it fast, crazy fun. Lovely art. Adds to the understanding of Tony's character.

It bugs me a little when female superheroes show their hair under a cowl, especially when their male equivalents don't.

What I like about the female Avengers here is that because they're male costumes, they're sensible clothes! No absurd cleavage, or clothes held on by willpower. Particularly IM, in the armour with no feminization. Looks like an astronaut or something.

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was a good time. Very cyberpunk, but in that fun 80s over-the-top way. And did anyone mention it has robot raves?

If only 2.0 had lit himself up with one of those dayglo hula hoops and joined in the underwater robo-disco, it would have been the greatest comic OF ALL TIME.

[joysweeper.livejournal.com]

I liked Hypervelocity, and Tonyghost. The cognitive clockspeed thing got to me after a while, and I think Tonyghost once mentioned that stupid, stupid myth that humans only use ten percent of our brains at one time(AAAAARGH! That is [one of] my Berserk Button[s]!). And I did not like any of his music. But it was fun.