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BioTech posted:Moon Knight doesn't bother to dodge punches, he just gets hit. So Taskmaster is like a blank VHS that records over whatever he saw last with whatever's in front of him? That's not a bad angle.
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mind the walrus posted:So Taskmaster is like a blank VHS that records over whatever he saw last with whatever's in front of him? That's not a bad angle. Yeah basically. It works against him too, he tried copying that one guy who dodges via literal cartoon physics once and broke his own back because he is himself not a cartoon. It's also giving him Super-Alzheimer's, iirc, because neurons aren't meant to be used like rewritable media Malachite_Dragon fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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I see it more like Taskmaster has all of these copied fighting styles that he can pull out whenever he wants to go up against any good fighter but when he goes up against someone new who's just as good as anyone else in his repertoire he will copy them and fight fire with fire. That doesn't really work with Moon Knight because Taskmaster hates fighting like that.
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Taskmaster is still one of my all time favorites. He's got an interesting powerset, but it effects his personal life (No short term memories IIRC). He's a villain, but not a super villain. He's not in the game to rule or conquer, he's just in it to make a quick buck. He's kind of a Venture Brothers concept, brought to the "reality" of comic books.
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Taskmaster rules Agent X - #5
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You'd think he'd have seen enough people fighting regenerators to have a basic plan for people who don't respect incoming damage. He knows the mutants.
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Sounds like he has a basic plan for that.
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"Don't fight him in the first place" *is* a plan 
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Yeah basically. It works against him too, he tried copying that one guy who dodges via literal cartoon physics once and broke his own back because he is himself not a cartoon. Interesting evolution of him over the usual schtick
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Infinitum posted:Taskmaster rules That rules, and proves the early 2000s will always be excellent! I just added the Udon Taskmaster mini-series to my read list too, had forgotten about that. Digging their Street Fighter stuff lately. Agent X is rad.
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Heavy Metal posted:That rules, and proves the early 2000s will always be excellent! I just added the Udon Taskmaster mini-series to my read list too, had forgotten about that. Digging their Street Fighter stuff lately. Agent X is rad. That era is near impossible to sell people on. It was at the time, and it hasn't gotten easier. It's sad because it objectively kicks a lot of rear end.
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Taskmaster owns and I'm sad that the MCU version is a mute traumatised assassin.
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It drat well was, I loved those early 2000's, tons of poo poo but some incredible work was in there. I mean poo poo, even if you hate Ennis he was even putting out some killers. Hitman was a stunning run, brute or no as far as it comes to current opinion, it had some incredible bits to it and damned if I could get someone to dive in now.
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mind the walrus posted:That era is near impossible to sell people on. Is it? I point people to Udon's Street Fighter stuff all the time. There's also stuff like Ultimate Spider-Man, stuff like Preacher. There's a ton of stuff all over the accessibility spectrum.
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Nilbop posted:Is it? I point people to Udon's Street Fighter stuff all the time. There's also stuff like Ultimate Spider-Man, stuff like Preacher. There's a ton of stuff all over the accessibility spectrum. I would go to a pizza place to watch sports after work and there was one comic book guy who worked there and he got someone else who worked there to read Preacher and pretty soon everyone who worked there was borrowing his Preacher books, like there was a signup sheet of who gets to borrow the next Preacher trade.
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Nilbop posted:Is it? I point people to Udon's Street Fighter stuff all the time. There's also stuff like Ultimate Spider-Man, stuff like Preacher. There's a ton of stuff all over the accessibility spectrum. Fact is people mostly just want a communal experience they can get behind that they don't totally hate, like with Skwirl's example, where they can honk lines and have a shared bonding affirmation. The actual "what" is pretty immaterial as long as it doesn't go too far off of what people already know/like, and yeah Udon's stuff was a hard sell 2 decades ago when anime aesthetic was a lot less normalized by grown adults (for better and for worse) and a lot harder now because no one outside of turbodorks give a gently caress about what comics were cult hits nearly a quarter century ago. By all means have the can-do spirit about it, but in real terms if you've got the sales chops to pitch someone on that you're better off selling things that net you an actual paycheck.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Taskmaster owns and I'm sad that the MCU version is a mute traumatised assassin. Hopefully 5 years is enough time to get therapy and a personality the photographic reflexes also work outside of combat, he can whip up any dish he saw on a cooking show. also I liked the Udon era mask and outfit
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Yeah basically. It works against him too, he tried copying that one guy who dodges via literal cartoon physics once and broke his own back because he is himself not a cartoon. I forget but didn't get a bit obsessed with beating Spider-Man for awhile and thinks he understands Spider-Man's fighting style but gets chumped because Spidey's fighting style is semi-random due to his spider sense.
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Gnome de plume posted:Hopefully 5 years is enough time to get therapy and a personality Not for nothing, but he's also an internationally ranked competitive ballroom dancer. 
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It's one thing to learn the moves and routines but you don't get to that level of dancing unless you possess the passion.
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Kid in the following is Butterball. He's effectively invulnerable with unlimited stamina, but his powers activated 'locking' him in his current state. He's fat and unfit and no matter how much he trains will never get better than he is now. Flunks out of the Avengers Initiative and gets sent home  Taskmaster, the Jobber with a heart of gold  Hopefully we get chatty Taskmaster in the upcoming Thunderbolts movie, cause gently caress me they were terrible in Black Widow
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I appreciate the swing to "Remember a Taskmaster" posting. A guy who I only slightly know but seems to have a pretty neat gimmick.
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TwoPair posted:Moon Knight #18: MK and Tigra just crashed a party hosted by a bunch of vampires The best way to deal with Marvel vampires is to cheat. Which is a Pete Wisdom specialty. He will, for example, carpet-bomb you with holy water.   Captain Britain and MI13 #13 Or figure out a way that you're just plain not invited.   Captain Britain and MI13 #15
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ATTENTION PLEASE THANK YOU
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I know I shouldn’t care about realism but Ironheart’s pose seems not very doable if her only propulsion is from her feet. Extremely cute cover, I just have brainworms
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That’s not who Ironheart is, dog. Cmon.
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glanced over and misread, oops
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Originally posted in the funny panels thread by accident, meant to post these here.  Source: Fantastic Four (2022) #5
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That's Ryan North on the script, right?
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Gaz-L posted:That's Ryan North on the script, right? Yep, and lineart by Ivan Fiorelli, colors by Jesus Aburtov.
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If you haven’t been reading Ryan North’s Fantastic Four, you’ve really been missing out.
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Kill Six Billion Demons Allison, the protagonist, has Been Through Some poo poo. She's down an arm and a leg and an eye, practically all of her friends are very dead, she's been convalescing for three years. It's time to get back into fighting form, and so she has sought out a master to train her: 
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Flesh Forge forgot the real badass panel: I had been thinking of posting all the times Allison had gotten kicked in the face in this comic to this thread, and since Flesh Forge got us started... Back before she'd lost an arm and a leg:  And back when she was in the Tournament Arc: 
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She takes a kick to the face like a champ.
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She does have a god key in her forehead. It's a very sturdy face.
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Maybe I should get back into KSBD. When I first started reading, the lore felt overwhelming. Often felt like I didn't have much grasp of what was going on.
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Lobok posted:Maybe I should get back into KSBD. When I first started reading, the lore felt overwhelming. Often felt like I didn't have much grasp of what was going on. Book 1 is very much intentionally like that, to reflect Allison being in way over her head. It levels off in Book 2 and after.
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