>>88842234Okay, then.
It was Tony Stark and Carol Danvers as written by Brian Michael Bendis. That's mark one against it.
Mark Two: The timing. Because Bendis decided to change the ending of Civil War II, that issue of Iron Man came out two or three months before the ending of Civil War, rather than being timed to end when it did and giving one or two issues for aftermath stuff before the title split into two with Doom and Riri.
Tony decides he needs an AA meeting. This could be good. He dances around the subject while searching for one because he doesn't want to run into Carol and figures that she'll be going too given their current situation.
Given the GLOBAL scale of their reach, they have literally thousands of meetings to attend. They just happen to run into the same one in a cringeworthy coincidence that you don't see coming just because it's so contrived.
Rather than take this chance to apprehend Tony (As, by this point, he's broken the law by having one of Carol's prisoners, a suspected terrorist, rescued and released.) they have a brief scuffle, then sit down to talk about their problems and differences. Unfortunately, it's bogged down by Bendis's trademark dialogue issues, so we have to slog through Tony admitting that she's always intimidated him by being such a strong person and he had a crush on her.
This quiet little moment, where they could work to end the war, ends up just rehashing the same tired arguments that these two have been spewing every time they met, just sans vitriol. Instead of giving us some new insight to their arguments, all it does is re-establish everything they've said before. And then Carol leaves.
So, in short, the entire issue boils down to Tony trying to avoid Carol, he can't, they go "This is why I'm right and you're wrong and I'm sorry you can't see that", and she lets him go to his AA meeting unmolested.
It's not a great episode, it's a nothing episode. No plot movement or character development happens. It's weak.
