When I was lurking in comic book fandom-this was several years ago now-the most bashed character was not female, as often seems to be the case in the fandoms I've been involved with, but was instead Iron Man (this was shortly before his first movie, when Iron Man was unpopular from his role in the Civil War storyline, where he supported the ( Read more... )

I was reading my diary from a few years ago for, and I stumbled on something mildly amusing: I saw Iron Man with a group of friends when it first came out in 2008. It was the first Robert Downey Jr. movie I'd ever seen (and the last--for some reason I never got around to seeing Iron Man, even though I liked the first one ( Read more... )