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neuhallidae (neuhallidae) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-09 15:52:00

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char: ant-man/wasp/hank pym, char: captain america/steve rogers, char: captain marvel/genis-vell, char: hawkeye/ronin/clint barton, char: immortus/kang the conqueror, char: iron man/tony stark, char: songbird/melissa gold, char: wasp/janet van dyne, creator: kurt busiek, creator: matt fraction

Nobody does retcons like Immortus does retcons!
Matt Fraction on Invincible Iron Man's next story arc after "World's Most Wanted" concludes in October.

Pepper, Maria, and Rhodey are Tony Stark's three closest friends, but he used to be a lot more connected with the other superheroes of the Marvel Universe. At the end of “Secret Invasion,” many of Earth’s champions considered Stark **persona non grata** as a consequence of the controversial moves he made during that storyline and others like “Civil War.” That posture may change, though, by the time “Stark Disassembled” begins. “Tony's taking utmost responsibility for the choices he made and Osborn has stolen everything he's ever had. I think once people see the way Tony is going to bat for them, that he's manning up, making right, and ready to pay the ultimate price for the choices he made that's going to remind people that he's not a villain,” Fraction stated. “And there's a spectacularly public finale to 'World's Most Wanted.' 'Stark Disassembled' is intimate and private in the way that wakes and vigils often are but 'World's Most Wanted' ends as the whole world watches.”

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I'm kind of...eh. On one hand part of me wants to be interested, but the rest has been less than impressed with Fraction's handling of the series so far.

Also, Tony's last major retcon, as told by one of Immortus' Space Phantoms through four and 3/4 pages of Avengers Forever #8.

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colonel_green
2009-08-10 12:06 am UTC (link)

I have a love/hate relationship Busiek's Avengers stuff. Obviously, something had to be done to iron out all the confusing stuff surrounding Iron Man after "The Crossing". But in other cases you get stories dedicated to resolving continuity errors from the 1960s that only he knows or cares about. The overall impression his Avengers run left with me was its incredible preoccupation with past continuity.

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neuhallidae
2009-08-10 12:13 am UTC (link)

Busiek's referred to as a continuity porn writer with good reason. While there were a lot of things I didn't like about his run, his handling of things like that godawful Crossing storyline were homers. I tend to prefer his handle on characterization as well (most of the time, anyway, his way of reviving the Vision/Wanda/Wonder Man triangle that should have been left alone made me grouchy), especially in works like this where different timelines are chucked together and he gets to play with it a bit (Present!Hank and Present!Jan's "Oh, crap" reaction to Yellowjacket was priceless).

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arbre_rieur
2009-08-10 01:32 am UTC (link)

What makes Busiek's continuity-wrangling work and someone like Roy Thomas's (bad day Thomas, not good day) not is that it's always done in the course of an actual story. Back around the time his run began, a bunch of Avengers fans gathered a list of continuity knots and dangling subplots that the series had accumulated and sent it to him. He responded by saying that, if he found a way to address any of them in the course of a story he was already going to tell, he would, but he wasn't going to go out of his way to do so.

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