Invincible Iron Man #20 recap and discussion post

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Sorry for the delay, kids. Holiday Hell delayed my recapping this week. Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.

Particularly with this issue... let's keep the comments focused on the recap and productive discussion rather than Fraction hate, please. :D

That said...


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Comments

[valtyr]

Well, he clearly can - he did so in the scans hallidae posted a couple of days ago, and he's apologized a few times that I can think of, and not grudgingly either - he's been able to empathize with the people he wronged. After mind-wiping his secret identity from the world, he never, really, believed he'd done the wrong thing, but he regretted and apologized for the manipulation and hurt of his friends.

Yes, but it wasn't a break-up per se, it was the sacrifice of their strong, loving and happy marriage. To the devil. Like, the whole reason Mephisto wanted their marriage was because of the purity of their love.

Just because there's a risk of death in a profession doesn't mean their deaths aren't meaningful and to be regretted, whether it's superhero, soldier, firefighter, whatever. And it's not like it was only superheroes who chose that life who suffered. Jessica Jones deliberately gave up that life, and plenty of people who suffered through the Initiative never wanted it. Wasn't Cloud 9 an innocent girl who was turned into an assassin? The choices Tony made affected the lives of, well, everyone in the world, and some considerably for the worse - MVP was a kid who died, another was mutilated because they didn't choose that life - and he's shown very little sign of regretting the harm.

People forgive Reed because editorial mandate it, I guess.