Query

[bowsie22.livejournal.com]

I just want to know something.  I was never really into comics. I've read a couple and I've seen the films, but the release of Captain america got me thinking.  When you read and write the fics here, do you imagine comic Steve and Tony or Chris Evans!Steve and RDJ!Tony.  I for one tend to go with Chris and Robert, maybe because they're real and easier to imagine. This is just me being curious.  Sorry if it's not allowed.

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[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

I always picture the comics version of them, with Steve as a buff, blond guy who looks a lot like Steve Epting's art, and a little like Evans, and also just a tiny bit like Kevin McKidd (in terms of how almost freakishly blond both McKidd and comics "you can see my blond eyebrows through my mask's eyeholes" Steve is), but with a cleft chin. Evans' voice is just about perfect for how I imagine early canon!Steve talking, though. Really, he nailed sort of essence of Steve Rogers almost perfectly.

Tony is always comics Tony, sort of a blend of Patrick Zircher's art on the Execute Program arc, early volume 3 Tony, a little volume 1 Gene Colan and John Romita Jr., and a large helping of this gorgeous picture (http://pics.livejournal.com/elspethdixon/pic/0003yypk/g2). His voice is usually Marc Worden, the guy who played Tony in the 2007 animated movie (which also had a character design pretty close to the way I picture early canon Tony looking - i.e. pre-goatee, when he only had the moustache). Honestly, I kind of partially substitute comics!Tony in my head for RDJ even when watching the movies, despite RDJ doing an awesome job acting wise and in temrs of attitude/mannerisms/etc. (I do the same thing with several actors in the HP movies, where you get the same 'otherwise good actor has the wrong eye color' problem with Daniel Radcliffe, and where Alan Rickman is a good fifteen years too old for Snape. I'm constantly mentally subtracting fifteen years from movie!Tony's age so that he's in his twenties like early canon Tony ought to be). When I watch EMH, there's a lot of looking over the rim of my glasses whenever there's a close up so the screen will blur just enough that I can't make out his eye color.