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neuhallidae (neuhallidae) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-30 20:41:00

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char: black panther/t'challa, char: captain america/steve rogers, char: falcon/sam wilson, char: iron man/tony stark, char: red skull/johann schmidt, creator: geoff johns, creator: olivier coipel, group: avengers, publisher: marvel comics, title: avengers

"The Red Zone", parts 5 and 6
By request, the most dramatic mouth-to-mouth scene ever. Five pages from Avengers vol. 3, #69, and seven from vol. 3, #70.

So, a deadly flesh-eating virus has been released from a bunker under Mount Rushmore. As the Avengers and the government are struggling to contain it, the other obvious question is: who the hell is responsible? Well, as it turns out, the US government itself. The virus was a pet project of Secretary of Defense Dell Rusk and, when the notes are decoded, it turns out the original intent was to target minorities.

You know where this is going, right?

Well, Falcon and Gyrich (yes, that Gyrich, who was learning not to be an asshole in this arc) figure it out as well, but not before Falcon gets shot and T'challa and Tony Stark are kidnapped by commandos before they can finish synthesizing a cure. Responding to a distress call from Falcon, Cap learns what Falcon and Gyrich had already found out: the Secretary of Defense is the Red Skull in disguise.

They knock each other around a bit before the Skull reveals his ace in the hole.

In the next issue, Black Panther doesn't take too kindly to the potential plan of "blame Wakanda", and goes for Skull's throat. While they battle it out, Iron Man makes an attempt to get to Cap, only...

Panther and Skull continue to fight, until Panther decides he's not going to waste the fancy stuff on this bastard.

While Skull and Panther continue beating the shit out of each other...

He-llo.... anyway, that creepy eye thing Sam did in the last panel when he woke up? That was a distress call of an entirely different sort, and Skull suddenly gets swarmed by just about every predator bird within ten miles. Which gives T'challa the opening to keep a promise.

While this has been going on, Wanda's been pulling out the big magic guns to try and keep the virus cloud contained. Scientists from Stark Industries and Wakanda successfully finish the cure, and the government uses air drop helicopters to spread it through the air and kill off the cloud.

Ta-da.

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	scottyquick 2009-08-31 01:09 am UTC (link)
	Awww. Awww. D'AWWWWW :D (Reply to this)

	sandoz_iscariot 2009-08-31 01:11 am UTC (link)
	Black Panther beating the stuffing out of Red Skull + A dramatic and hot mouth-to-mouth = Fuuuuun times. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	vignettelante 2009-08-31 02:26 am UTC (link)
	I'm actually kind of surprised Black Panther and Red Skull don't come into conflict like this more often. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-08-31 01:26 am UTC (link)
	So Red Skull is in some Amel Zola body now ??? (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-08-31 01:41 am UTC (link)
	Interesting, and powerful stuff. That's a new power for Falcon though isn't it? He used to only have a bond with Redwing. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-08-31 03:29 am UTC (link)
	Not sure when he got it, but he's used it a lot through Brubaker's Cap (in his first appearance there he said he spoke with "half the pigeons in New York" before finding him). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	batcookies 2009-08-31 10:42 am UTC (link)
	Johns introduced it in one of his first issues, saying he'd been pushing the link and found that with enough concentration he could link up with other birds as well, seeing through their eyes, sending them commands, sifting through their memories, etc. Pretty useful power, really. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	joysweeper 2009-08-31 02:22 am UTC (link)
	I like this story. Nightmarish aspects and all, and I don't just like it because of the slashy parts. Though in all honesty, they could have left out the dramatic closeups of that mouth-to-mouth and not have lost anything storywise. Heh. Had it a while back. I wonder if I still do. (Reply to this)

	sinisterlink 2009-08-31 03:44 am UTC (link)
	Ouch, that is some nasty looking jaw breakage. I'd actually feel bad for him if he wasn't, ya know, the Red Skull. (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2009-08-31 04:09 am UTC (link)
	Huh. I've seen the mouth-to-mouth stuff before, and it definitely makes a lot more sense in context. It always looked to me like Sam was reacting to the Ho!Yay when his eyes go all crazy. Heh. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-09-02 04:29 am UTC (link)
	motto (Reply to this) (Parent)

	proteus_lives 2009-08-31 05:05 am UTC (link)
	Very awesome. Every universe needs a good nazi villain. (Reply to this)

	ashtoreth 2009-08-31 05:19 am UTC (link)
	I'm a sucker for the Skull calling Falcon Cap's 'eagle'. :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-08-31 09:06 am UTC (link)
	At least he didn't call him "blackbird" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	the lips seems a little unesssecary. nefrekeptah 2009-08-31 06:26 am UTC (link)
	You know, in real life, CPR is administered when to someone who is either dying or clinically dead. Their flesh is typically cold and clammy, you're breaking ribs if you're doing it right, and the victim tends to throw up even if he doesn't recover. There's nothing even slightly romantic about it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	neuhallidae 2009-08-31 06:33 am UTC (link)
	Everything you just said is exactly why it's rarely done realistically in fiction, even in "procedure" shows. It's assumed that no one wants to imagine, let alone actually see the victim throw up on their rescuer. And having actually seen a victim throw up on their rescuer, I gotta say I prefer the fiction, because my own gag reflex is very weak. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: the lips seems a little unesssecary. scottyquick 2009-08-31 01:29 pm UTC (link)
	In real life, martial arts are not a magical way to win every fight. In real life, the leader of a country would not be allowed to put on an outfit and beat people up.. In real life, people would be traumatized for years when something like KANG BLOWING UP NEW YORK happens. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: the lips seems a little unesssecary. valtyr.dreamwidth.org 2009-08-31 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	In real life, the leader of a country would not be allowed to put on an outfit and beat people up. Hey, who's going to stop Queen Elizabeth II? You? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: the lips seems a little unesssecary. cf105 2009-08-31 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	I figured it was just a terminology mix up, ar works in that scene, CPR not so much. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: the lips seems a little unesssecary. autumn_lily 2009-09-02 03:26 am UTC (link)
	Agreed, in this case it looks like Cap only needed rescue breaths. Since he still had a pulse (did they say if he did or not?) then chest compressions (conducted in CPR) would have been unnecessary and would have actually caused Cap some undue harm. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: the lips seems a little unesssecary. autumn_lily 2009-09-02 03:24 am UTC (link)
	Not to mention that sometimes the victim can actually throw up in the rescuer's mouth, which is one of the reasons for those nice plastic shields! (Also, remember when the victim starts throwing up to turn them AWAY from you and lean them against your legs. WAIT until they're done, then put them in the recovery position.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	That's Copiel's art, no? jazzypom 2009-08-31 07:55 am UTC (link)
	Amazing art work, that. I'm sorry they don't sell the trade. I have to make do with... cough other means. Ich, the red skull is all sorts of wrong, he is. (Reply to this)

	ex_menagerie993 2009-08-31 03:07 pm UTC (link)
	I am terribly amused by Panther's Lee Press-On Nails of Vengeance in the last panel. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	autumn_lily 2009-09-02 03:32 am UTC (link)
	I've been cut by my sister wearing those, they are truly heinous weapons of doom and scratchiness... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	autumn_lily 2009-09-02 03:31 am UTC (link)
	Cap: Tony...I'm grateful for you saving my life but.. Iron Man: But what Steve? Cap: ...Did you really have to slip me the tongue? (Reply to this)