I've got love for you if you were born in the 80ies

[dune_drd]

So, I'm reading Iron Man comics now, like all of them, because that's what you do when you have a tablet and your BF, er, procured them for you

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[tencrush]

Tony's underwear. Always good.

And then Civil War happens, right? I've only just started reading stuff, but wtf I can't take the idea of Tony vs Cap.

[dune_drd]

OMG CILVIL WAR.

I have feelings about Civil War but apparently I'm too late to actually have conversations about it. Plus I don't get Tumblr... The BF is not reading it ON PURPOSE because I've annoyed him so much with it already. Well, and he wants to catch up with ALL OF DAREDEVIL before he reads it.

Anyway, Cap vs. Tony? Yeah, it mainly reads like a bad divorce between those two, it makes me so sad and then things are in motion and there're those moments of BUT I STILL LOVE YOU BUT I'M TAKING THE CHILDREN I'M RIGHT. Got to get through the 2000s now and then read it again.

[tencrush]

My kid's reading The Mighty Avengers or something, and Tony's head of SHIELD and everyone's blaming him for Cap being dead and I'm like WHAT DEAD HOW and now I feel like I should read 20 years' worth of comics to find out what the hell's going on.

[dune_drd]

Go and read Civil War, the core issues are out as paperback. I might've also read about 100 issues of all the comics surrounding those core stories. Ahem. Anyway, IT WAS SO TRAGIC and Tony's so emo in his own way about it and he's too damn smart for the world anyway which is why it's even more tragic and eeeeeee - as I said, I have feelings about Civil War.

Cap's death more or less follows directly after Civil War, so he died and my comics cut off. I've got only a wikipedia idea how, but I hear Cap's better now. And almost all the storys from Civil War got a reset or something, as far as I know. Which is kind of a dick move after such a huge earthquake in that universe.

[tencrush]

Fine, I'll go find it. I can never quite work out how comics work and how many bloody books I should be buying and if I need to read all of them. Comics can be daunting.

[dune_drd]

I know, right? Which is why I download those handy reading lists the hardcore fans compile - that way I won't have to worry about all those all subtitles telling me what HUGE stories I missed.

[tencrush]

TELL ME WHERE TO FIND THESE LISTS, the sheer volume of comics scares the shit out of me.

[dune_drd]

I think I went with a comic bundle that used something close to this one. That's the most chronological order you can make of that event, others prefer to read the main event and then catch up with the rest. But then I never do these things half-assed, even if some of the parallel stories are dead boring.

As you can see, it's highly confusing and even more impractical to read all this by buying the comic issues...

[tencrush]

Holy crap. Scared now.

[dune_drd]

IT'S WORTH IT!

[tencrush]

Okay, okay, I'll do it. Give me a month or two to find this shit.

[dune_drd]

Have fun - or, well, it's emo most of the time.

As I said, just reading the paperback collections is fine as well - I think I bought Road to Civil War as well, that's the most important stories leading up to it (and has Tony predict exactly what will happen - because he's that good).

[tencrush]

When I say 'my kid's reading' I mean, of course, I am reading when my kid is in bed. But they're not mine, honestly.

[dune_drd]

Yeah, I mean, which respectable adult reads comics, right? *cough*

[tencrush]

This, and lego, is why I had children.