marvel comics is funny because even when iron man and captain america aren't on the avengers roster together, and no matter how a writer feels about them individually, they can't deny the place that steve and tony have in each other's canon. so you'll have normal things like steve showing up in iron man (2026) #1 and tony showing up in captain america (2025) #1 and then when the new 616-wide comic event kicks off and steve is in a coma, you have tony losing his mind at the hospital and even chip zdarsky who has historically been terrible at writing tony stark is having him say shit like "he's a hero dammit! more important than all of the avengers put together" "steve rogers the best man i know" "we'd all follow steve into hell and back" because the two of them being insane about each other is a fundamental pillar of the marvel universe, a load-bearing wall if you will


















