[Greenskar]

Read haunted. Agreed, its a great story. I still don't feel like blasting Fraction for telling his. Although I do see your point about having an Iron Man trade without much action, however, I can think of incredible Hulk stories that didn't have much hulk in them and were actually good stories.

Good for you, you're reading these for free and being selective with purchases. Can't fault anyone for that. But part you is really coming off as an action junkie with this discussion. Just my take. If that's what you want you're just as entitled to it as the next person, but that's just not the direction the writer intends to go with it. Its not going YOUR way...that doesn't make it a bad story it just makes it one you don't happen to care about.

It really is interesting and apparent how different our taste in stories are though. I thought the infinity gauntlet story was pretty terrible in the recent avengers story. I just can't take the hood seriously at all. Not to mention the indoctrination of Steve Rogers into the illuminati at the end...lame to me. Steve isn't a guy I would consult when the world is threatened, which was originally a requirement for that specific gathering, he's who I expect to execute a command. I suppose his elevated status into the position that Tony and Fury previously occupied earned him a chair, even though I didnt really like it. But much like your expectations of how you expect writers to treat Tony based on 40 yrs of history, as you put it, I expect the same with Steve. So instead I chalk it up to character growth and say "fine, that's why they did, that's what it is". I can bitch about it...but it doesn't change what is happening anymore than it changes why the X-Men Broke up.

I'm glad fraction ignored infinity gauntlet, it really had no relevance to the stories he's telling.