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[elspethdixon]

If I set up a dreamwidth comm for doing a read-through of Iron Man/Avengers/Captain America volume 3 (Kurt Busiek! Mark Waid! the Living Armor! Rumiko!), with discussion posts for each story arc and stuff, would anyone be interested in participating?

For movie-only people: this era of comics has modern-style art and dialogue, but pre-date’s the “giant mega-crossovers you have to read ten different titles a month to understand” era. And features very good Sharon characterization, lots of Clint, a good ‘introduction to Ultron’ storyline, and That One Time Tony’s Armor Came to Life and Fell in Love with Him.

And if you would be interested, any suggestions for comm names? (“screw Events, let’s read backcanon” sadly has too many characters)

Currently being considered:

marvel_volume3
marvel_vol_three
lets_read_volume_3
marvel_backcanon
cap_iron_reread

Comments

[marinarusalka]

I would totally participate, provided I could get my hands on all the relevant comics. Are they all available in trades or on Marvel Digital?

I've read the Living Armor storyline, and a couple of others from that period, and they were all great fun.

[elspethdixon]

I actually don't know if you can get them through Marvel Digital (I should check - I have a subscription). I bought them on CD back when you could get the 1963-2005 back issues of Marvel's main titles on CD-rom. (And seanchai did some kind of DRM magic with them on her Mac so they'd display properly - for some reason the DRM visibly degraded the image quality on her computer - so I can lend you copies if you need them)

[elspethdixon]

Apparently they are available in trade, at least some of them are. Wikipedia has a list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_(comics)#Avengers_Vol._3_.281998.29

[velithya]

Maybe, if (as marinarusalka said) I can get hold of the comics. Would it be a quick reading schedule though or something a little more sedate? My uni course keeps me pretty busy IRL.

[elspethdixon]

I bought the '50 Years of the Avengers/Cap/Iron Man' CDs back in 2007, so I might be able to, ah, lend you some copies.

Volume 3

[dorothy1901]

Sounds like fun.

Iron Man Volume 3, Avengers Volume 3, and Captain America Volume 3 can all be found on the Git Corp CDs. Unfortunately, the Git Corp CDs are themselves hard to find, since they've been out of print since around 2007. They show up on eBay sometimes.

The Marvel Wiki has a helpful list of the issues that comprise volume 3 of the titles:
marvel.wikia.com/Avengers_Vol_3
marvel.wikia.com/Captain_America_Vol_3
marvel.wikia.com/Iron_Man_Vol_3

Re: Volume 3

[elspethdixon]

I was thinking of going through each title until just before the intro to Disassembled and stopping there, since ending on Disassembled itself would be too depressing. Much better to end on a high note instead of "Rocks fall, the Avengers Mansion blows up, everybody Vision and Scott Lang and Jack of Hearts die."

Re: Volume 3

[dorothy1901]

Rocks fall, everybody dies... with atrocious artwork. The character faces remind me of flatfish, that weird fish that has both eyes on one side of its head. (Although I did get a kick out of Dr. Strange saying there's no such thing as chaos magic.)

Re: Volume 3

[dorothy1901]

I was thinking of going through each title

In parallel, or sequentially? Putting them in universe-timeline order would be nice, but it would be a challenge, since an event in one title would take place in the middle of events of another title. It's been a while since I've read them, and my memory is vague, but I sort of remember that the big Avengers Parade in NYC took place kind of in the middle of Tony's spa/assassination getaway.