Cap_Ironman Weekly News, Week Ending 19 February 2012

[valtyr]

Hi all! Let me remind our Reverse Big Bang artists that today is the deadline for art! More info at the comm. Claims will be tomorrow, so if you're an author who wants to take part, watch the comm!

Well, Matt Fraction's critically acclaimed run on Invincible Iron Man is coming to an end. The final arc is called Long Way Down, and will apparently put Tony through the wringer. For a change.

Rumoured villains for Iron Man 3 is... Namor? Uh-huh. Maybe we should run a pool on the villain!



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Comments

[valtyr]

His characterisation of Tony seems very divisive; some people are of the opinion it's the best run of Iron Man ever, and some consider it woefully out of character.

What is pretty unarguable is that he's either unaware of, or chooses to disregard, quite a lot of previous canon. (For instance, Tony declaring he'd be rebuilding his fortune from scratch for the first time.)

It seems to me he has stories to tell - which may be good stories - that don't always fit with the situations and characters he has to tell them with, and he's not very good at adapting them. So he tweaks the characters to fit the stories, which I don't enjoy.