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The mouse chef movie times didn't work out, so we ended up watching Fantastic Four 2 a second time yesterday, and then drove home to watch the UMD fireworks, which we could see from right out in front of the apartment (they lit them off from the middle of Byrd stadium). To complete the happy 4th-ness, the Captain America shirts we ordered arrived in the mail today, so
I can sleep tonight with Steve's shield emblazoned across my chest.
Also, new comics. I reserved a copy of Thor #1 in advance, along with a copy of Iron Man: Fallen Son, and I'm so glad I did.
I am filled with love for Thor, and Don Blake (the little smirk when he predicts a thunderstorm! Magicing up an ID! The Mjolnir stick!), and Straczynski! We are now only one Resurrected Cap away from having the original five Avengers Re-Assemble into a happly little family.
Fallen Son... I broke my "no reading Fallen Son until Steve is back" rule for it, and I'm glad I did. Oh, Tony, your "acceptance" is so clearly not acceptance at all (I'm especially fond of that panel near the end where he's staring into the arctic water, as if contemplating throwing himself in after Steve's coffin. That and the incredibly woobie close-up while he breaks down at the funeral).
The entire issue was a really nice tribute to Steve (I'm so glad Marvel is doing this right, unlike DC with their various major character deaths), and the bits with Tony... further cement my belief that a) Tony's feelings for Steve are well and truly canon now (Steve was Tony's "rudder" *dies*), and b) Tony is going die of grief like a Victorian heroine if Steve doesn't come back.
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seanchai and I have decided that the "five stages of grief" that the Fallen Son issues are supposed to represent are Tony's stages of grief, and that the entire miniseries is really just meant to showcase Tony spiraling down into depression over the loss of the love of his life. Though, if you want to pick someone in this issue who actually did represent acceptance, it would probably be Sam, who is obviously prepared to mourn and move on with his life like a healthy, stable person (Tony, being neither healthy nor especially stable, is obviously never going to move on, as this issue so aptly demonstrated).
I can sleep tonight with Steve's shield emblazoned across my chest.
Also, new comics. I reserved a copy of Thor #1 in advance, along with a copy of Iron Man: Fallen Son, and I'm so glad I did.
I am filled with love for Thor, and Don Blake (the little smirk when he predicts a thunderstorm! Magicing up an ID! The Mjolnir stick!), and Straczynski! We are now only one Resurrected Cap away from having the original five Avengers Re-Assemble into a happly little family.
Fallen Son... I broke my "no reading Fallen Son until Steve is back" rule for it, and I'm glad I did. Oh, Tony, your "acceptance" is so clearly not acceptance at all (I'm especially fond of that panel near the end where he's staring into the arctic water, as if contemplating throwing himself in after Steve's coffin. That and the incredibly woobie close-up while he breaks down at the funeral).
The entire issue was a really nice tribute to Steve (I'm so glad Marvel is doing this right, unlike DC with their various major character deaths), and the bits with Tony... further cement my belief that a) Tony's feelings for Steve are well and truly canon now (Steve was Tony's "rudder" *dies*), and b) Tony is going die of grief like a Victorian heroine if Steve doesn't come back.
seanchai and I have decided that the "five stages of grief" that the Fallen Son issues are supposed to represent are Tony's stages of grief, and that the entire miniseries is really just meant to showcase Tony spiraling down into depression over the loss of the love of his life. Though, if you want to pick someone in this issue who actually did represent acceptance, it would probably be Sam, who is obviously prepared to mourn and move on with his life like a healthy, stable person (Tony, being neither healthy nor especially stable, is obviously never going to move on, as this issue so aptly demonstrated).Tags: