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You're welcome, and fair enough.
Yeah, points. There's a lot more guilt and trauma and pain in Tony's history that could have easily provided greater context for his ruminations on his regrets and fears at the beginning of this issue, though I am still satisfied Feilong got the beatdown he deserved.
CAFU ended up on Al Ewing's Venom, if I recall.
The spider is always on the hunt.
"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
In fairness I believe CAFU only came to Venom after Cantwell's run already ended for a while
"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
Overall it was a good issue, nice to See Tony getting some measure of justice against Feilong. One thing that I didn't like however was Tony just focusing on his failures and and none of the people who he impacted in a good way or the good people in his life(no Rhodey, Pepper, Beth?).
And Tony's biggest fear isn't spoilers:end of spoilers. It's exactly what happened in this entire run, his technology falling into the wrong hands. Still it was an enjoyable issue but I'm ready for this run to be over.
Magneto
Exactly. Stark greatest fear is someone evil using his inventions, especially someone with imperialistic/colonial ambitions. His greatest villains are devoted to just that, with Tem Borjigin, aka The Mandarin, having repeatedly put Stark in slave camps to force Stark to invent for him, with the intention of causing World War III and ruling the ashes. Stark fears Stark, and his greatest villains are charicatures of his old self: rich men devoted to imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, resource-hoarding, and war.
Magneto doesn't represent those things. Magneto is just a science problem Stark has solved.
Yeah, I'd agree with that.
Point.
While Feilong tries his damnedest, despite his own genocidal aspirations towards mutants, he's nowhere near that level. He's nothing but a punk who got in way over his head through his own arrogance and hubris and became a pawn to machine intelligences more powerful and ruthless than anything he could fathom.
The spider is always on the hunt.
This reminds me of Magneto being a villain of the week in Armored Adventures.
Well stated as usual. You are on the nose about Feilong. I always got this feeling that during this entire run that Feilong was getting propped up more than Tony or at Tony’s expense. I think Duggan was trying to do to his creation what Fraction did for his created villain and it just didn’t work.
"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
So...*facepalm*...the writer thinks that Stark is haunted more by things like Firebrand being killed by Scourge than he is by Rumiko being killed by Temugin, or Yinsen dying to save Stark's life? Really? Really?? Really?????
I can't get over what a completely wasted opportunity this was.
Really????????????????
Feilong himself wasn't even a threat like this last issue proved. It was Tony's tech and inventions being used against him. He didn't come up with an original idea nor did he create anything. It was a derivative of Tony's work and it wasn't even done by Feilong, that was Nimrod and Omega Sentinel.
It was legal issues and corporate play that put Feilong in a position to succeed in the first place.
Now that it's over, let's get back to Tony villains or new villains created specifically for him.