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Iron Man: Hypervelocity is six billion kinds of love. Crazy adrenline-junkie tech-geek love. I'm not sure where the hell it fits in canon (my current guess is pocket-time between volume 3 and volume 4 of Iron Man), but it is love.
Civil War #7 isn't love, but any ending where Steve isn't dead is acceptable to me, even a slightly anticlimatic one.
After all, it's a civil war--it's suposed to end anticlimactically, with a surrender that feels hollow followed by a regime of military occupation in the name of 'social progress.' Of course, following this analogy through, said military occupation would end having completely failed to accomplish most of its objectives, and things would return roughly to the status quo.
And if they're really keeping with the analogy, there'd be a big assassination/death/martyring of a major political figure in the next month or so, but I'm really, really hoping they won't do that. Pointless deaths of people in costume during crossovers solely to provide hype and drama is the DC way of doing things. And I was reading CW rather than 52 for a reason. Aunt May getting shot is enough--they don't need to kill anyone off.
On the other hand, I'd bet money that the evil Hydra/Red Skull/Doom/whatever moles in SHEILD are going to make at least one unsuccessful attempt on Tony's life. He hasn't almost died in Iron Man in two whole issues, so it's about time someone put him in the hospital again.
Civil War #7 isn't love, but any ending where Steve isn't dead is acceptable to me, even a slightly anticlimatic one.
After all, it's a civil war--it's suposed to end anticlimactically, with a surrender that feels hollow followed by a regime of military occupation in the name of 'social progress.' Of course, following this analogy through, said military occupation would end having completely failed to accomplish most of its objectives, and things would return roughly to the status quo.
And if they're really keeping with the analogy, there'd be a big assassination/death/martyring of a major political figure in the next month or so, but I'm really, really hoping they won't do that. Pointless deaths of people in costume during crossovers solely to provide hype and drama is the DC way of doing things. And I was reading CW rather than 52 for a reason. Aunt May getting shot is enough--they don't need to kill anyone off.
On the other hand, I'd bet money that the evil Hydra/Red Skull/Doom/whatever moles in SHEILD are going to make at least one unsuccessful attempt on Tony's life. He hasn't almost died in Iron Man in two whole issues, so it's about time someone put him in the hospital again.
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The next few issues of She-Hulk, when she apparently will be pounding the shit out of Tony for sending her cousin off planet.
I can't wait.
I'm really glad Steve isn't dead. I'm glad this Civil War stupidity is over.
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I'm really glad Steve isn't dead.
I know Marvel isn't DC. I know they're smarter than DC about some things and generally treat their characters and readers better, but I still had this intense paranoid fear that they were going to kill Steve off for shock value. I'm still not entirely over it. I will be waiting outside the doors of the local comics shop like a vulture the day Captain America 25 comes out.