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Invincible Iron Man #22 and #23 recap and discussion post
Hey everyone! Thank you for all the kind words toward my recaps. Back by popular demand and a more relaxed schedule, I present the most recent two issues of Iron Man. In March, I will have more free time so the last issue of the arc and the following issues will get to you more timely.
Remember the rules, keep the discussions here because I can't reply to you on blog spot and try to keep the Fraction hate to a minimum. But you can rip apart Larroca all you want to :D
Without further delay...
http://starkoholic.blogspot.com/2010/02/invincible-iron-man-issue-22.html
http://starkoholic.blogspot.com/2010/02/invincible-iron-man-issue-23.html
Remember the rules, keep the discussions here because I can't reply to you on blog spot and try to keep the Fraction hate to a minimum. But you can rip apart Larroca all you want to :D
Without further delay...
http://starkoholic.blogspot.com/2010/02/invincible-iron-man-issue-22.html
http://starkoholic.blogspot.com/2010/02/invincible-iron-man-issue-23.html
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God yes. This is the creepy part for me. I can get all the rest--Pepper's had it hard lately, she's kind of losing it and Tony's a good target for emotional projection because he's the one she followed into this mess--but if Happy's death is still bothering her that much (and it's understandable) then sleeping with the guy who pulled the plug on him is...well, it starts getting uncomfortable. I can't help thinking the best way for those to add up is "flirting with a nervous breakdown." Which, admittedly, would also be understandable for her at this point. Given all she's been through, you have to wonder if even Pepper could possibly handle it all.
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I think it's possible to interpret her anger as "Tony's got a plan to fix himself; why didn't he have a way to fix Happy?" Like, she's not blaming Tony for cutting the life support so much as blaming him for arranging to save his own life, but not Happy's. Seeing him a vegetable must have brought back painful memories of Happy, and I'm not surprised that she had a little episode.
Also, when they slept together, she thought it was the last time she'd ever see him alive, but he knew, vaguely, that he had a plan to come back.
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Not sure I buy the boy talk, nor it turning Maria and Pepper against each other. Like either of them would be remotely surprised that Tony Goddamn Stark slept with anybody. Maria wouldn't care, and Pepper's known him for too long.
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By *that* point, I didn't think even *he* knew that anymore. I could be wrong, I haven't re-read, but I really did think she was the one in the far superior position in that scene, genuine emotional issues notwithstanding.
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However, I also think that Tony, by not telling Pepper that he wasn't actually going to die, was an A+ asshole. She thought she was giving him something he'd always wanted, something that he'd admittedly always been interested in. I doubt she would have done that if she'd know that he was going to be fine after all.
Now, her assumption that he could consent was a seriously dodgy, but I'm still having a difficult time feeling more pissed off at Pepper than I am at Tony right now. Actually, I know who I'm pissed off at the most, and it's not a fictional character.
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It just shouldn't have gone there.
Agreed.
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I'm not particularly mad at Pepper *or* Tony. I think the reason I'm giving him a pass at the moment though is I really do think that there was a moment where he lost control of the situation. I mean, by this point does even *he* still know what his plan is?
I agree with you 100% that she thought she was doing something really special and probably wouldn't have done it had she had all the facts. But I also think genuinely *by that point* he was in no position to respond appropriately, whether to consent, *or* to understand that he was taking advantage of her ignorance of the facts. [Whether he should have let her in on his plan earlier is another question of course.]
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Yes, they'll be able to retrieve squishy brain bits from lava. Of course. Although I suppose that line could have been Tony deliberately obfuscating his real intent.