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Cap_Ironman Weekly News, Week Ending 17 October 2010
Hello and welcome to the weekly
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As noted in comments of the last newsletter, a few Cap and IM announcements came out of NYCC last week. Two new minis for Steve: Astonishing Captain America by Andy Diggle and Adi Granov in July 2011, and Ultimate Captain America with Jason Aaron and Ron Garney in February 2011. If you're into the X-Books, James Asmus is writing a three-part annual crossover between Steve Rogers: Super Soldier, Namor: The First Mutant and Uncanny X-Men
Also, Invincible Iron Man is renumbering as of January, and Matt Fraction mentioned some details about what will be in Iron Man #500.
Only Steve or Tony comic out this week is the final issue of Ed Brubaker's Steve Rogers: Super Soldier. Preview for that here.
jazzypom wrote two short fics on LJ and on DW.
manic_intent wrote four new parts of The Tower of Yesterday 6-7 and 8-9
cat_13145 was looking for and found a fic.
fictivore posted a discussion question about the Execute Program arc.
fancy_galloway is looking for fic recs for Steve/Tony that isn't on this comm or in the comm archive.
Finally, if you're a new or recent member, hello and welcome! Our rules are here, and in the profile; this includes our warnings policy, so please read. If you're interested in the ship, you may want to read the Ship Manifesto, and consult the list of Slashy Moments (Now at one hundred and fifty moments). If you're planning to write for the comm, there are some tips on writing the pairing here, and the Avengers in general here; if you're having trouble finding a beta, or would like to offer your services as a beta, our beta list is here. If you're looking for the comm archive, it's Tales of Suspense, and it's automated - you can create an account and upload your fic. if you have any questions, you can comment here or PM a mod, that's me,
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As noted in comments of the last newsletter, a few Cap and IM announcements came out of NYCC last week. Two new minis for Steve: Astonishing Captain America by Andy Diggle and Adi Granov in July 2011, and Ultimate Captain America with Jason Aaron and Ron Garney in February 2011. If you're into the X-Books, James Asmus is writing a three-part annual crossover between Steve Rogers: Super Soldier, Namor: The First Mutant and Uncanny X-Men
Also, Invincible Iron Man is renumbering as of January, and Matt Fraction mentioned some details about what will be in Iron Man #500.
Only Steve or Tony comic out this week is the final issue of Ed Brubaker's Steve Rogers: Super Soldier. Preview for that here.
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So Iron Man is going back to 500
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I am so tired of Tony looking like Sawyer from Lost. (And Pepper = Nicole Kidman, for that matter.)
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THIS. I'm still in the early 1980s in my timeline-driven read-through, and current Tony looks like crap in his own book. Avengers draws him better, and that's... saying something. -.o
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And... can't argue with you over Extremis!Tony. :D
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I didn't really want to go digging through *mumble* issues of Iron Man, so I settled for the first fairly decent recent picture of Tony. And I still don't like it. (The pic of him smirking at Noh Varr from Avengers #2? Awesome. IIM in general? *sigh*)
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Also, is it just me or is anyone else a bit... wary of what Resilient's 'shocking twist' is going to be? Though Tony interacting with Peter without knowing his identity sounds interesting... And Howard Stark seems to be quite popular what with the Brotherhood of SHIELD and now a new mini...
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Then we hit the '90s. Comics were weird in the '90s. Marvel decided that it wanted to reboot the universes, so they abandoned the old numbering, and started everything over again at #1. Unfortunately for all comics readers in 1996, the reboot universe pretty much sucked, so that only lasted 13 issues, then they rebooted it again moving everything back to the main continuity, but again restarting the numbering. So you have Captain America Vol 1 100-454, Captain America Vol 2 1-13 and Captain America Vol 3 1-50.
Since then, every time the series undergoes a major change, or rebranding, they restart the numbering to indicate that this is a good place for new readers to jump on. Which got us Captain America Vol 4 1-32 when they decided to go dark and gritty after 11/9. Then, after the big Avengers Disassembled event, they restarted all the numbering again thus Brubaker's Captain America Vol 5 1-50.
Still with me? So that's how the numbering used to work, and still does to some extent. You'll note that New Avengers restarted the numbering at 1 for the start of the Heroic Age. While over in Daredevil they're changing the title from Daredevil to Black Panther: Man Without Fear while maintaining the old numbering to indicate that it's still the same series.
Which brings us to the thing where they go back to the old numbering. Of the big two, Marvel is the younger company. Sure, they own properties from the Golden Age, like Cap, but they were originally published under another name (Timely Comics). DC has comics that have been published continually in one form or another since the '40s. I've always figured Marvel felt a little sore that their flagship titles only hit about 22, when DC had Detective Comics #827. So, in the last few years, every time Marvel sees a chance to, by adding all the volumes together, come up with a number with lots of big shiny zeroes after it, they've gone back to the old numbering. We had Captain America Vol 1 #600 and Daredevil Vol 1 #500 last year, and X-Factor #200 last winter. I think the idea is to provide a sense of legacy and show that these are the same characters you loved when you were young.
The big number issues tend to have special features, more stories and reprints of old comics.
Whew!
I'm always a bit wary of shocking twists, though not in this case, as I'm not following the title.
Ah, Howard. As mentioned on my DW, I'm getting a little sick of Howard. I would like to read about Maria for a change.
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(Personally, I've always been convinced that the only reason Tony has avoided a paternity suit even after years of carousing is cause after the first such scare back in college-days, he had a 'little something' done to his tubes... His lawyers were very happy)
Hmm... Though hasn't the Avengers' ongoing time-travel adventure shown that Tony's gonna be a spritely and active 100+ year old Iron Man?
And I totally agree about Maria Stark! More about her would be awesome... (Maybe, something will inspire you to write that fic? *hopeful*) Would be especially interesting since Howard has been almost exclusively set up an a massive asshole... But also quite competent (Also an agent in a morally dubious organisation as a partner to Agent Nathaniel Richards, btw o.O)... So would be really really hot to see a Maria able to be an under-handed with him... Though hopefully she was somewhat nice... Tony deserves atleast one parent who gave a shit about him...
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That's just one possible future, which I think they're trying to make sure doesn't happen. Have you seen Next Avengers? It's super cute and has some great Tony angst.
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It looks pretty good.
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Someone's looking a bit chubby here...that's cute.
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I need to be reading this like right now.
Oh, Steve. So traditional.
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