Invincible Iron Man #20 recap and discussion post

[heworedecadence.livejournal.com]

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

[meowl-kt.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on the 'higher power' line, but is it just me, or does it seem like he forgot which Captain America he's talking to? I mean, I'm pretty sure it wasn't Bucky he looked up to. As far as Pepper's characterization, I don't think it's so much a matter of not wanting Tony back as it is of wanting Happy back. During CW, she saw her husband in a very similar position--at least in part because he was Tony's friend--and she couldn't make the decision then, either. She basically guilted Tony into making it for her, even though, as next of kin, it should have been her call. Now, Tony is brain dead, but apparently he gets to come back from it when Happy didn't. I think it's a perfectly natural reaction to be upset and confused about why one person gets to recover and another doesn't.

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I pretty much assumed that he was talking to Steve's spirit & Thor or some such, because it's a choice of that or Tony not distinguishing Bucky!Cap from Steve!Cap, and that makes me a sad Faery.

Plus, the assumption gives me a little ground to stand on when I decide that Tony thinks of Steve as the Captain America and Bucky as Bucky. [/head canon justifcation]

With Pepper, if she had said it that way ("Why can't Happy come back, when Tony can?"), I would be 100% for that. It makes sense for her to call back to her husband being in that position. But instead, the phrasing she used ("Why does Tony get to come back, when Happy can't?") strikes me as bitter and full of Tony Hate. :( Which would be perfectly acceptable, if she hadn't been cozying up to him a few issues ago.