Victorian Ladies and Women of Marvel

First and foremost, you all most go see Miss Emmagen would like a word, ileliberte's fantastic Victorian!Tayla art.

So, the Marvel's May solicits are out. Lots of good stuff, some alarming art, and no real change for women.

By the numbers, in relation to last month's post, there are slightly fewer covers with women on them, and few women on covers. However, a lot more women (and men) are in active roles, which is nice.

( Cover Statistics for May )

I'm not sure that I'll buy either Avengers team books (there's even MORE white boys in the Bendis one, now), but there's some interesting stuff out there. I think I'll pick up Thunderbolts for Luke, Black Widow for Nat, Girl Comics because despite the name I think it will be great, Age of Heroes for Faiza, Captain America if Rikki's still in it, New Avengers: Luke Cage despite the frightful art, Spectacular Spider-Girl for Mayday (!), Torch because it's been a fun ride so far, Marvel Heroes because of my immense weakness for highschool AUs, and Daredevil: Cage Match because I can't resist that much WTF.

Which is... a lot of comics.

Fic - Marvel Comics (61?)/Iron Man (Movie) - Heart of Steel (Part XVIII) [slash]

Title: Heart of Steel (Part XVIII) [slash]
Author: muccamukk
Fandom: Marvel Comics (61?)/Iron Man movie/AU
Spoilers/Warnings: PG-13 for mature themes and violence.
Number of Words: 3,000
Notes: In which several people are punched in the face, and I introduce even more characters. Thank you to culurien for the speedy beta.

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( AU: Steve wakes up in the mid-twenty first century, the Golden Age of America, and doesn't like what he finds. Fortunately, Tony's not in this chapter either. )

(Part I) (Part II) (Part III) (Part IV) (Part V) (Part VI) (Part VII) (Part VIII) (Part IX) (Part X)
(Part XI) (Part XII) (Part XIII) (Part XIV) (Part XV) (Part XVI) (Part XVII) (Part XVIII)