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Reccomended Reading: Iron Man/Captain America
We've had a couple requests for recommended reading of late, and at some point I'm totally going to get organised enough to actually write up a compilation off everyone's suggestions and link it from the side bar. However, for the moment, I'd like to suggest two things that seem absolutely tailor-made for our comm.
The first from the middle of the Civil War arc from a few years back, "Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties of War" by Christos Gage.
In the middle of the fighting, Steve and Tony meet and try to talk out their differences. Over the corse of the discussion, the two of them flashback important incidents over the history of their friendship (such as the time Steve taught Tony hand to hand, and a rather nice redrawing of the Gone with the Wind cover). We all know how that ended, but this story seriously reads like slash fic, only with a fight scene instead of porn.
If you can't track down the floppy, it's reprinted in the Civil War: Casualties of War, and The Invincible Iron Man: Civil War (which also has "The Confession" in it). The whole thing is Slashy Moment #35.
I've been going on about my second rec in the newsletter for a bit now, but I finally laid hands on it this week, and it is a shiny, shiny thing. I'm not sure what the international availability is (I've heard early June for the UK), but you can now get Iron Man/Captain America in most US and Canadian comicbook stores.
It starts out with Tales of Suspense #58 by Stan Lee (slashy moment #25), with Tony convinced that an evil double of Cap has beaten up real Cap. He is Very Concerned, and flies of the handle at real Cap, who is somewhat confused by this. It's classic old school Iron Man if four colours, with some cute Happy/Pepper in there too.
We then move on to Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #5-6 by Ron Garney and Mark Waid (slash moments #41 and #50), which is a recent retelling of Cap's early days with the Avengers. These issues are specifically about forming his partnership with Iron Man. Initially, Tony feels sorry for Cap, and doesn't think he'll be able to hack it in modern times. He soon learns better.
Next up is Iron Man #172 by Denny O'Neill, the intervention issue (slashy moment #12). Tony's hit rock bottom with his alcoholism, and Steve comes to try figure out what's going on with him. Well, he actually lectures him rather a lot (which goes over about as well as one would expect), but he does reveal things about himself that he never mentions elsewhere in canon, and he's deeply upset when he can't make Tony see reason.
Not too long after he sobered up, Tony decided that the best use of his time was to track down all the copies of his armour design that he didn't have direct control over and take them back. This led to the Armour Wars arc, as shown in Iron Man #228 (Bob Layton and David Michelinie) and Captain America #334 (Mark Gruenwald), which are slashy moments #19 and #37 respectively. Steve's on outs with the US government again, and had his shield confiscated. He goes to Tony for help, and Tony makes him a new one. There's gleeful rejoicing. But, oh noes! Tony meant it as a bribe for backing him on (or at least not interfering with) the armour wars. Then there's arguing, and meaningful looks and angst.
One issue included here wasn't announced beforehand, so when I picked up I was surprised and delighted to find Captain America Annual #9 by Michael Heisler and Ralph Macchio! It's not a slashy moment on the list, but it does have Tony and Steve angst. AND it has mind-altering fish! I did a little dance.
Tales of Suspense (1995) by James Dale Robinson is... really amazingly slashy (see slashy moment #36). Tony and Steve are on outs because Tony recently took it in his own hands to make the Avengers kill something (which he claimed wasn't sentient, and doing so did stop a war), and this made Steve cross. Anyway, they run into each other again in the middle of a SHEILD op and both spend four pages monologuing about how awesome the other person is. Tony calls Steve's eyes "azure." It's special.
Closing out the trade is Mark Waid's Iron Man/Captain America 1998 Annual (slashy moment #20), which has the boys on outs again. Tony has managed to piss off Steve by wiping Iron Man's identity out of Steve's brain. They spend the whole issue bickering in a deeply petty fashion (Tony makes snarky remarks about the shield that Sharon gave him, which is in no way because he's jealous).
I wholeheartedly rec both of them both as overviews of Steve/Tony and as leads on where to start looking at expanding your canon knowledge. If you've already read it all, it's still nice to have it in the one place.
The first from the middle of the Civil War arc from a few years back, "Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties of War" by Christos Gage.
In the middle of the fighting, Steve and Tony meet and try to talk out their differences. Over the corse of the discussion, the two of them flashback important incidents over the history of their friendship (such as the time Steve taught Tony hand to hand, and a rather nice redrawing of the Gone with the Wind cover). We all know how that ended, but this story seriously reads like slash fic, only with a fight scene instead of porn.
If you can't track down the floppy, it's reprinted in the Civil War: Casualties of War, and The Invincible Iron Man: Civil War (which also has "The Confession" in it). The whole thing is Slashy Moment #35.
I've been going on about my second rec in the newsletter for a bit now, but I finally laid hands on it this week, and it is a shiny, shiny thing. I'm not sure what the international availability is (I've heard early June for the UK), but you can now get Iron Man/Captain America in most US and Canadian comicbook stores.
It starts out with Tales of Suspense #58 by Stan Lee (slashy moment #25), with Tony convinced that an evil double of Cap has beaten up real Cap. He is Very Concerned, and flies of the handle at real Cap, who is somewhat confused by this. It's classic old school Iron Man if four colours, with some cute Happy/Pepper in there too.
We then move on to Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #5-6 by Ron Garney and Mark Waid (slash moments #41 and #50), which is a recent retelling of Cap's early days with the Avengers. These issues are specifically about forming his partnership with Iron Man. Initially, Tony feels sorry for Cap, and doesn't think he'll be able to hack it in modern times. He soon learns better.
Next up is Iron Man #172 by Denny O'Neill, the intervention issue (slashy moment #12). Tony's hit rock bottom with his alcoholism, and Steve comes to try figure out what's going on with him. Well, he actually lectures him rather a lot (which goes over about as well as one would expect), but he does reveal things about himself that he never mentions elsewhere in canon, and he's deeply upset when he can't make Tony see reason.
Not too long after he sobered up, Tony decided that the best use of his time was to track down all the copies of his armour design that he didn't have direct control over and take them back. This led to the Armour Wars arc, as shown in Iron Man #228 (Bob Layton and David Michelinie) and Captain America #334 (Mark Gruenwald), which are slashy moments #19 and #37 respectively. Steve's on outs with the US government again, and had his shield confiscated. He goes to Tony for help, and Tony makes him a new one. There's gleeful rejoicing. But, oh noes! Tony meant it as a bribe for backing him on (or at least not interfering with) the armour wars. Then there's arguing, and meaningful looks and angst.
One issue included here wasn't announced beforehand, so when I picked up I was surprised and delighted to find Captain America Annual #9 by Michael Heisler and Ralph Macchio! It's not a slashy moment on the list, but it does have Tony and Steve angst. AND it has mind-altering fish! I did a little dance.
Tales of Suspense (1995) by James Dale Robinson is... really amazingly slashy (see slashy moment #36). Tony and Steve are on outs because Tony recently took it in his own hands to make the Avengers kill something (which he claimed wasn't sentient, and doing so did stop a war), and this made Steve cross. Anyway, they run into each other again in the middle of a SHEILD op and both spend four pages monologuing about how awesome the other person is. Tony calls Steve's eyes "azure." It's special.
Closing out the trade is Mark Waid's Iron Man/Captain America 1998 Annual (slashy moment #20), which has the boys on outs again. Tony has managed to piss off Steve by wiping Iron Man's identity out of Steve's brain. They spend the whole issue bickering in a deeply petty fashion (Tony makes snarky remarks about the shield that Sharon gave him, which is in no way because he's jealous).
I wholeheartedly rec both of them both as overviews of Steve/Tony and as leads on where to start looking at expanding your canon knowledge. If you've already read it all, it's still nice to have it in the one place.
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..Once I finally get through all this Deadpool canon anyway.