wynnesome

Edited panels from Iron Man #182. In the climactic comic of the "Iron Man Second Drinking arc," Tony is at rock bottom with his alcoholism, huddling up with his pregnant, fellow alcoholic friend, trying to survive both her labor and the terrible blizzard about to hit that night.

In the original page, the upper left is a different panel. I substituted this one from the previous page to make the sequence more concise for purposes of the edit. Instead of saying "a little," he offers her a "Taste?" from the bottle of liquor he pawned his coat to buy. She declines, because there's no time like the present to quit drinking for the sake of your about-to-be-born child. The next two panels are unedited until the final, bottom right speech bubble. In the original, instead of having his mind on what Steve would think of him in his current circumstances, Tony is thinking about "Armor. Armor I used to wear that I thought made me invincible."

Sorry, Armor, had to toss you aside in favor of Steve this time, for the sake of Games points!
 

 
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