Avengers Prime #2: Complete That Thought!

[savemoony.livejournal.com]

Avengers Prime #2 hit the shelves today. I just want to highlight some subtext.

In this issue of Avengers Prime, Tony, Thor, and Steve go off on their own adventures. In Steve's, he makes out with an Empathic Chick Who Reminds Him Of Wanda. Yeah, I know. But before he does, he says:

Steve: I just -- I didn't do enough for [Wanda]. I couldn't help her when she needed help. And now I -- I'm getting a chance at life. A third chance really and I - I think I maybe he making the same mistakes again. I'm fighting with my brothers when I feel nothing but love and respect for them. I stand my ground on principle when all I really want to do is -- Um, why am I pouring myself out like this?

Non!Wanda: That would be my doing, mortal. I am empathic. Don't be ashamed of your true feelings. They are quite beautiful.

So... What does Steve really want to do?

:)

Comments

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

YAY! Let's play!

Steve: I'm fighting with my brothers when I feel nothing but love and respect for them. I stand my ground on principle when all I really want to do is—

—have a spiritually incestuous threesome.

—go home. :(

—not die (again).

—stop making out with strange women when he's supposedly with Sharon.

—the Time Warp again! (It's just a jump to the left—)

—Care Bear Stare.

—pose in the nude. (Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease)

—get a better writer.

[soapcat.livejournal.com]

- Bend over for Thor until he makes me swear in Italian.

[kyrdwyn.livejournal.com]

Steve: I stand my ground on principle when all I really want to do is --

-- Sing!
Music swells
King of Swamp Castle: Stop that! Stop it!
Music Fades
Steve: Um, this isn't Monty Python.
Non!Wanda: Ni.

(it's possible I'm a little cracked in the head.....)

[kakow.livejournal.com]

It's writing like this that makes me think Bendis hasn't actually read a single Avengers book, including his own. He mocks us, laughing as we cringe.

For my little submission:

-- Grab Tony and Thor in a giant bear hug, whilst slowly, unabashedly, lowering his hand towards Tony's pert little bottom, listening closely and awaiting the eventual lip-bitten moan.

[truthiness-aura.livejournal.com]

- Snuggle on the couch with my shield

- Snuggle on the couch with Tony

- Snuggle on the couch with Tony and the shield

- Order a metric ton of Chinese take-out and have a classic movie marathon with Tony and Thor

- Have a round of manly bro-hugs with everyone

- Go back in time to punch Hitler some more to relieve stress

- Have a relationship that does not turn into a national security crisis or a reason for years of therapy or both

- Go live in Marvel Adventures canon

[muccamukk]

Well, BMB could be completely ignoring that Tony exists, like Brubaker is doing. Or he could be... okay I've completely lost track of what Fraction is doing due to lack of caring, but...

In anycase...

Wait, didn't Wanda mindrape Steve?

[valtyr]

Is he even fighting with Thor? I mean... surely the Steve-Thor interaction should be 'yay you're not dead!' from both sides.

Also, Steve. Don't cheat on Sharon! (Or is this evidence Steve and Sharon have an open relationship?)

[jynx.livejournal.com]

I actually loved how prime set up the little status quo the Marvel Trinity have going on. Steve gets the girl, Thor gets answers, Tony gets abused/beaten up/tortured.

And my contribution:

- forget the whole damned thing ever happened in the first place and move on.

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

You know, I keep imagining the conversation Steve and Tony are going to have after all this is over.

Tony: Wait, let me get this straight. We both get sucked into a rainbow swirly thing. We both en up someplace weird. We both make the mistaken assumption that the locals might be friendly to Thor.

Steve: Right.

Tony: Then you get to make out with a hot psychic chick, and I get tortured by trolls.

Steve:...

Tony: This is so unfair! How come you get the girl and I get the hot pokers?

Steve: *coughkarmacough*

Tony: Did you say something?

Steve: Who, me? No.

[valtyr]

Oh, and Steve - do you even go here?

[illuminatius.livejournal.com]

...Tony gets beaten while Steve gets the girl. Oh yay. *facepalm* If Tony wasn't half-naked, sweating and bound, I would look away. (Thank you, Alan Davis. Shirtless, slightly fuzzy Tony? Unf. ...No, I don't just read comics for the eye candy!)

(Control your urges, Steve. You got your trigger-happy girlfriend and that weird relationship of yours waiting for you at home)

Great issue. The ending was a shocker (Hela's headpiece looks like really weird sideburns). o_o Never expected that. Can't wait for the next issue, but I guess I have to.