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SO. IT'S INDEPENDENCE DAY. The one day of the year when I stop angsting endlessly about what my country is and instead celebrate what my country should be. Wants to be. Can be. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Equality and justice for all. Belting of glorified old drinking songs
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The Whole Civil War Mess:
So that was one of those enormous crossover events that involved, like, every single fuckin' title in the Marvelverse, and I have come nowhere near to following all of it, but I recommend the following four volumes to get a lot of the main stuff:
- Civil War, no subtitle, just Civil War. The miniseries at the core of it. Covers a fair amount of the politics on both sides, and the really big dozens-of-supers-on-each-side-and-Steve-and-Tony-beating-the-shit-out-of-each-other fights.
- Civil War: Iron Man, which is two issues of actual Iron Man, mostly covering Tony being broken into little pieces (which is a lot of what this story does), and two one-shots. "Casualties of War" has been described as a slash fic with the sex scene replaced with a fistfight (and a fistfight which gets about 60 times more poignant if you've read the Demon in a Bottle arc.) "The Confession" is, well, no, I can't even fucking describe it. There's a summary in the ship manifesto above. I have a .cbr file I can email you. If you read nothing else of Civil War ever, read that.
Civil War: Front Lines 1 and Civil War: Front Lines 2: Here less for the Steve/Tony and more for the general view of what the shit is going down in the universe at this point, and because they're awesome. Mostly focused around two reporters, doing what reporters do, and doing it very well. And a whole batch of other stuff. Can be a bit hard to follow, because of the 293842974 plot threads, but, IMHO, worth it. Said reporters get very nasty with Steve. And Tony--well, this arc shows just how far he's willing to go.
*pants* That is what I know off the top of my head. There is tons more, but I cannot guide for what I have not read.
I seriously need to hit up the comm for a Steve/Tony comics-canon reading list.
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Oh my God. I'm reading that ship manifesto right now. It's brekaing my heart into itty, itty little pieces. Holy shit. I just read the Confessions summary, and oh my God. I don't think it could have hit djkajflkdfdf.
In short, yes, I would love that CBR. Oh my God. And I had no idea that Bendis wrote so much of the canon for it -- I have this, like, molecular level crush on his work for Powers.
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YES OMG hearts getting broken into itty bitty pieces is SO MUCH a part of this. *cue masochistic-reader-glee*
CBR has been emailed. And I am obscenely gleeful about seducing you into the dark side the continuity hairball side the comicsverse.
And, dude, if they cast Cap even HALF as well as they did Tony, I am SO looking forward to their movie interaction. I mean, dude, RDJ has chemistry with everything that move and some things that don't and ASLFKJSKLDFJ IT WILL BE AWESOME.
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Oh God, 1000 feet above Arlington Cemetery.
Jesus fuck. Who would they even cast as Captain America?
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Zombie war. Makes a crack about a zombie war. Even then. asdlkfjlkdjf Tony.
OH GOD ARLINGTON CEMETERY. Later at the public funeral, Tony's supposed to give the eulogy, and he just stands there in the rain and stands there and blurts "It wasn't supposed to be this way." And leaves. NNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKK.
Nargle.
There was a Matt McConawatshit rumor that has been shot down. People talk about this a lot. Me, I have no fucking clue, but I don't know that many actors.
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