Joseph Fink is calling ALL the shots this morning >:)
I LOVE YOU JOSEPH FINK OH MY GOD
Oh my god. And it’s real, too, y’all.
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In theory, at least if we go by patriarchic naming conventions, it means that Tony’s son knocked up Rhodey’s daughter. I’m sure Rhodey was thrilled.
Or Tony’s daughter kept her name and passed it on to her daughter; that’s very Stark.
Either way I feel like Tony and Rhodey had a conversation at some point that involved shotguns.
I don’t think it started out with something as mild as shotguns. I think that’s when it all settled down, when tempers had cooled . I imagine the initial conflict was an aerial dogfight, with Tony in the suit and Rhodey in his jet, the both of them yelling at each other over their comms. But that’s just me.
Oh, I’m sure it wasn’t just Tony and Rhodey. I would imagine the kids’ mothers were involved too, with shifting allegiance based on whether they were so pissed they wanted to punch everyone or whether they were calm enough to want to stop things (I’m assuming Pepper and Carol but I’m willing to entertain other possibilities on a case by case basis; Tony does have an ongoing thing for Jennifer Walters).
Plus, there’s Rhodey Stark’s parents to consider, since I strongly doubt they were sitting at home waiting for their parents to duke it out. Although I suppose the dogfight might have been caused by their elopement.
So you have at least three battle suits (Iron Man, War Machine, Rescue) plus at least one, probably two Kree-powers (Carol and Carol Junior) possibly plus whatever superhero powers (green rage monster?) or heavy machinery Stark Junior had.
I mean, and presumably the rest of the Avengers sitting on a roof nearby eating popcorn.
Steve is going to be so annoyed when he gets back from his first vacation in ten years and finds his friends and godchildren making spectacles of themselves.
Oh. My. God.
everything about this screenshot is so in character
this fandom is a gift
I love the process that took us from inference based to what we saw in a movie, to the “sorry-my-boyfriend-killed-your-dad” card idea. In fact, that continues to amuse, and then horrify, and then amuse me again and again. (I mean nevermind my boyfriend killed one of our old war buddies, even if he was kind of an asshole and he wasn’t a great dad to you, we’re still really sorry you know?)
We Need All Voices in Comics (or, I Started the #FireRickRemender Twitter Tag and I’m Really Only Kind of Sorry About It)
I’d like to clear the air.
The past 96 hours have been some of the most stressful, anxious, and rewarding of my life.
Wednesday evening, following my first read of Rick Remender’s Captain America #22, I posted a series of entries to my blog reiterating my distaste for his work, and my renewed (and long-held) belief that he should no longer be writing it.
In my haste and anger, I asked other people who shared my opinion to tweet Marvel Comics, Rick Remender, and Captain America editor Tom Brevoort with their concerns, using the hashtag #FireRickRemender.
And I’m sorry.
I understand that the hashtag, and the arguments held under its banner, could have been (and were) seen as personal attacks. And for that, I apologize. I was coming from a place of upset, discomfort, disgust, and outrage, and I acted solely from that place.
I am genuinely sorry for any personal affront my actions may have caused.
What I am not sorry for is everything that came afterward.
i don’t even know what to say to this
While implying that things are better when people don’t think critically about what they read is clearly the mark of a free and enlightened society.
Critical thinking is bad and might be fascist. I could have sworn I saw that one on Fox News.
what is happening today?
it is apparently time for comics writers to rally against their fans again
Nice use of scare quotes there, ‘Brubaker’.
(slow, sarcastic clapping) No, no. The GOVERNMENT telling writers what they are allowed to write, often under the threat of imprisonment, torture, or death, is how that ‘worked.’ The READERSHIP saying ‘we do not like what you’ve written, and we are not interested in paying for it or anything else you’ve written, and we are encouraging your current employer to replace you with someone who can do the job better, because we consume their product, you goddamn HACK’ is how CAPITALISM works. I know it’s confusing, but they’re a little different.
And is he really doing this? Are we really comparing the threat placed on legitimate journalists and authors under a violent dictatorship or regime to the fan lead efforts to get a 3rd rate, misogynistic HACK removed from a flagship title? A flagship comic book title whose circulation numbers that he has driven into the ground? That’s… What we’re doing here.
Gotta say. I’m a little ‘outraged’ by his comparison.
This is one of those cases of bizarre “logic” that I don’t even know how to refute it because the person is operating from such a faulty premise. You have to backtrack SO far just to even try to follow their train of thought.
I want to send vitriolic hate mail to every comics professional who has come down defending Remender, but I do not have the mental energy for it.
i don’t even know what to say to this
yes, ed brubaker, fascists and communists spent a lot of time telling the people under their control not to be sexist, racist bigots. yes what a perfect analogy
I think someone needs to explain to Ed Brubaker that there is a world of difference between telling someone what to write and telling someone that WHAT THEY ALREADY WROTE is gross and problematic, and explaining the reasons why.
This all comes back around to the free speech thing. Yes, you have the right to write gross stories that fridge women, but you’re not free from the consequences of having written gross stories that fridge women (loss of sales, criticism).
I am an AVID Captain America fan. If the Cap book were actually good, and if Remender weren’t writing it, I’d’ve been spending money on it for the past year and a half, like I have been with Captain Marvel.
*growls* Swear to Thor, half – ¾? – of comics professionals need to be smacked upside the head with a Clue-By-Four multiple times.
You know what’s depressing? Feeling like “Wow! Comics have come a long way!” when you’re just reading, like, Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel and Hawkeye and She-Hulk and stuff. Then you read mainstream comics and it’s just like “… Fuck, I hate everything.”
knitting in the dark 