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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

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.