Invincible Iron Man #22 and #23 recap and discussion post

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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

Comments

[valtyr]

He was definitely forgetting things, but it's really hard to determine just how functional he was and what he remembered. I thought he still had an idea of what his plan was, and that's why he didn't just drop himself into a volcano.

[arysteia.livejournal.com]

The fact he says "Who's Happy?" though... That's *far* gone. I thought he'd dismissed the volcano with the whole "Who knows what they'll be able to retrieve?" nonsense. IDEK.

[valtyr]

I think that was after they slept together? So we have the "is Tony even able to consent" question and the "if he isn't does Pepper actually realise" question. :/ I mean, he is still piloting the armour and such, which even in the earlier suits was complex and difficult work. It's just such a mess, narratively, it's hard to tell what's going on - Flowers for Algernon worked because we had a direct line into the mind of the protagonist and could gauge his state pretty accurately.

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.