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valtyr ([personal profile] valtyr) wrote in [community profile] cap_ironman2011-02-25 05:55 am

Future of Iron Man

An interview with Matt Fraction about the future of Iron Man is here


"I kind of consider Peter Parker to be the moral center of the Marvel Universe, and I consider Tony to be the most morally flexible, the most morally unhinged hero in the Marvel Universe."

Well.

Some talk about Fear Itself.

"Tony has a big role, and it’s an important role, but he’s not just the guy next to Captain America."

Well, shoot. I like when Tony is next to Cap.

And Pepper:

"She is critical to the book, and my plans therein. Pepper going forward is a big deal."

Awesome. :)

What do you guys think? Excited about Fear Itself? Looking forward to upcoming storylines in IIM?

[identity profile] fictivore.livejournal.com 2011-02-26 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
I like your take on events though I'm not sure I totally agree. Despite previous drastic changes in direction for IM, as I have repeatedly stated, one of the things that most impressed me about IM canon was the remarkable *consistency* of character over 40-50 years of stories. Of course, you have to make allowance for the stilted melodrama and ham of really early canon, but Tony has been a recognizable person almost from the beginning.

Whenever there was a 'drastic new direction' the actions that Tony took could still be almost justified/ extrapolated from what we knew of the character or be seen as a logical moral evolution resulting from experience. But under Fraction, Tony has suffered moral *devolution* specially with all the 'flashback' stuff that is being 'revealed' in IIM.

I think he's trying and he does have *some* good ideas in theory (not really so much in execution though), but I don't think as a professional writer 'trying' is good enough.

As for fanfic, you know the horrifying thing? Quote from the NRama interview-

I finished #3, and it ends with one of those scenes, and it’s like, “I can’t believe I just wrote this.” And then I sent it. It’s not like fanfic. This is happening, I just wrote this huge thing that’s happening, and it’s like, “I just did a thing.”

The guy seems to realize his writing is equivalent to much fanfic, himself! He specifically states that his writing isn't fanfic, not because it's better, but because its actually getting published! With all the crack intact! What.
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[identity profile] garrideb.livejournal.com 2011-02-27 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
The guy seems to realize his writing is equivalent to much fanfic, himself! He specifically states that his writing isn't fanfic, not because it's better, but because its actually getting published!

Well, what he's writing is close to fanfic, as he is writing stories for a character he neither invented nor owns. In that regard, it's very close to fanfic. But it is being incorporated into canon, and that's really the only thing that separates it. Fanfic never stops being fanfic just because it's better. Quality has nothing to do with the definition of fanfic.

[identity profile] fictivore.livejournal.com 2011-02-27 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, you're never going to find me actually agreeing about fanfic being not as good as canon, considering the fact that I've started getting a large percentage of my daily fictional requirements through fanfic because... well, I *adore* it. I'm just saying, that its very very rare to find published authors who *also* believe that and being told that your book reads like fanfiction, is really not a compliment [a fact that has *nothing* to do with actual quality of writing of either published work or fanfiction.]

In this context its quite weird to find a published ongoing writer referring to his own work in those terms... [There's this book called the Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco, which is supposed to be really good and all that... I started reading it and... its a historical AU of Sherlock Holmes. with the main character being a blatant expy of Holmes. He's *called* William of Baskerville! What is that if not a bald-faced reference? But *nowhere* in all the reviews I'd read, was that resemblance even mentioned!]