Look, if you thought I was in this for Stark and his tech, well, yeah, sure, at first.   Then when I realized he'd brought in Ultron's creation, Jocasta, to be the robot ethicist.

It's a fun series, especially watching Jocasta teach people to treat robots like people, and her telling every robotic creation with/approaching self-awareness that they didn't have to throw themselves into danger if they didn't want to.

I have a feeling that she'll put a wrench in many of Stark's plans, but she also stole the show for me.   Debating buying all of this, along with a Bumblebee one-shot I missed in a week or so when the Bee issue goes half-off.   

An excellent fanfic, scifigrl47 voices Tony Stark to perfection. This fic could easily form the basis of a script for 'Iron Man 4.'

'...the idea of going without Tony was enough to make (Steve's) stomach turn over, nausea thick and hot in his throat. He remembered being alone. And he wasn't sure he could bear it again.'

So, wow, I am really upset that I didn't manage to grab the following volume - which Newbury didn't have - when i got my whole stash.   I was reading this, my jaw dropping, unable to put this down. 

Wow, wow, wow!  I never would have guessed any of this had been Tony's origin.   

And to top off the brilliant storytelling and art, there were robots involved.   Oh, yes, yes!   

Mmm.   451 is kinda hot.   

Why, yes, I'd totally have a drink with him.   *Ignores all the terrible shit he does, too*

No, seriously, 451 is a great villain: well spoken, rational, he justifies his means with the end game.   He actually reminds me of Unit, another Gililen villain.   Unit and 451 are both machines who are articulate, who both manage to trick heroes into helping them because they are such smooth operators, and who may or may not have truly evil agendas.   They both play long games, too.   

Gillen may end up being a favorite writer just for writing smooth, but evil, robots.   Sexytimes!

THIS FIC IS AMAZING. THIS FIC IS AN EPIC. THIS FIC IS FREE.

GO READ IT. NOW.

New Metropolis

This work is a goddamn epic. Okay, parts are kind of rough, but it has a great plot and imo decent characterization and good dramatic timing and such. 

I don't even have words anymore. I'm all ranted out. Yeesh. But yeah, moral of the story is, go read this amazing epic, and then look into some of the author's other works. Xe writes 616, which I think is great.

(On a side note, this is also a great one:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/2033628

It does magical things such as subvert the fanon Cap-is-technologically-illiterate trope AND doesn't overlook Captain Sassmaster. This one's shorter than the epic featured above, and is awesome fluff)

...and by Halloween edition, I only mean "with some zombie-AU fics

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