Cap_Ironman Weekly News, Week Ending 01 July 2012

[garrideb.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the cap_ironman/cap_ironman newsletter. First things first - the mods are running our annual poll about mod elections. You can vote until Monday, July 9th. Next, tags! If it is your first time posting a fanwork, you will not have a creator tag. The mods will do their best to create one for you within a few days of you posting your fanwork. After that, however, you will be able to use that tag yourself. The tag will be x: your_user_name, for example, x: garrideb. When you post a fic, fanart, craft, or vid, add your creator tag so other users can easily find your other works. Also, our spamming policy: simply put, please wait two days between posting fanworks of a similar nature.

What's been in the news? Well, this story - misleadingly titled Captain America and Iron Man Wed at NYC Comic Bookstore actually has nothing to do with Steve and Tony, but it's a cute story all the same. In relevant news, The Avengers will be released on September 25th on blu-ray and DVD. Here's a rundown of the special features. Any you're especially excited for? I'm a sucker for gag reels. Captain America & Iron Man #633 came out this past Wednesday. Thoughts?

Feel free to chat about any topics in the comments, but please keep it reasonably safe for work.


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calvinahobbes wrote Behind Closed Doors.
isabeau_gower wrote From Out of the Ashes.
kroki_refur wrote Grace Period part 2 and part 3.
cluegirl wrote Five Times #1 - The Bike That Dad Built, Five Times #2 - A Slow Marching Band, and Five Times #3 - Wholly Uncollected.
keelover wrote Flick the Red Switch Not the Blue.
silverlace_vine wrote Selfless.
eonism wrote All the Jagged Lines and Dotted i's.
cauldronofdoom wrote Warning Shots and Freely Given.
i_forget_me_not wrote Dirty Dancing.
bradygirl_12 wrote The Soldier and The Scientist V: Ball Handling Skills A Requirement ;)
queerlyobscure wrote Heels.
_samalander wrote Make Me Promise.
kaitlia777 wrote Untitled ficlets.
ageofalejandro wrote Stability.
silverfoxflower wrote Five Kinks Tony Stark Does Not Have Anymore Thanks to Steve Rogers.
paxnirvana wrote All the Leaves are Brown.
aubkae wrote Many Names in History, None of Them are Ours (3/8).
tresmaxwell wrote Worshiping at the Modern Altar, chapter 11.
barkinmad wrote Hey La, Hey, Hey La.
irishmizzy wrote The First to Go.

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iamthewillow drew A Third Party, Blueberries, How YOU Doin'…, Doughnut?, and the How YOU Doin'… speed-coloring video.

other cool stuff
karumachan looked for Cap/Iron Man Pixiv search tags.
mask_of_glamour looked for Extremis fic recs.
garrideb posted the Rec Week round-up list.
whittyrabbit looked for Steve/Tony fic with daddy issues.


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Comments

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

Fake subject line (how I miss thee, subject lines): No Spoilers for Captain America & Iron Man #633.

I found Captain America & Iron Man (#633) a bit... uninspiring. The characters didn't grab me (and I'm already preset to like them), the art didn't grab me, the story didn't grab me. But this is the first out of three; maybe it's only warming up. The last couple of panels were interesting, however.

[kabal42.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it yet, but judging by the art I've seen around it's not really my thing, visually. I think I'll give it another issue before I decide if I should buy or not.

[muccamukk]

I really liked it. I liked the art, even though Tony's eyes fluctuated between brown and blue (I think they were supposed to be blue, and there was a colouring error on a couple of pages). I thought their relationship was more or less what I want it to be with Tony being joking and smart with an underpinning of angsty, and perhaps relying too much on his tech. Steve having some problems with the way Tony operates but still trusting him absolutely and admitting to his own flaws. There was a lot of mutual admiration, fond jibes and a decent fight scene.

Incidentally, the plot is a continuation of the Cap and Hawkeye comic, in which Steve turned into a dinosaur.