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He's been engaged and/or married for 10 of the comics 15 years, and I'm assuming they were dating before then. It's not proof he wasn't a creepy somewhere, but if he was writing about relationships, and they weren't fictional stories, chances are they were about a single person that he married.
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I think it's based on one special strip he did for an ex who was getting married about how she'd never stay up all night talking like presumably they had done. It comes off a little bitter maybe but I don't think that was his intention.
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A Strange Aeon posted:I think it's based on one special strip he did for an ex who was getting married about how she'd never stay up all night talking like presumably they had done. Ah, I see. https://boards.straightdope.com/t/randall-munroe-is-loving-creepy/683713 It comes off as a sloppy parody of a toast given by a best man who had previously dated the bride. Not that funny, definitely could be read as an entitled "good guy". Is it actually about/for an ex? Like, the joke is 90% of the strip can be told to a loved one and the last line flips that convention and is supposed to be ironic.
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Feb 16, 2021 20:47
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"Let's suppose I'm right and make judgements without examining that" is a heck of an approach. That's usually how you DISprove something, by arriving ad a contradiction.
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We probably wouldn't even be here if Munroe had decided to use different stickpeople to represent him and his wife when he's writing stuff about their actual lives. Instead, he uses the same "Cueball" and "Megan" models he uses for a lot of his comics, including entirely fictional ones, which muddies the water when there are some comics where "Cueball" is a creep to "Megan". (At least one of those I read as being critical of the Nice Guy mindset - "Friends with detriments" in the mouseover - but other people here have taken it at face value.)
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Feb 16, 2021 23:54
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Goatkcd is still funny.
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 Redshirt the Uber-Henchman and the Minions International Liberation Front. From Taskmaster (2010)
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Speaking of Taskmaster, check out his bold new policy from #3 of his current series
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Bruceski posted:"Let's suppose I'm right and make judgements without examining that" is a heck of an approach. That's usually how you DISprove something, by arriving ad a contradiction. Let's assume this guy killed an entire resthome, just stabbed them all, right in the face, just for the sake of the argument:
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Phy posted:We probably wouldn't even be here if Munroe had decided to use different stickpeople to represent him and his wife when he's writing stuff about their actual lives. Instead, he uses the same "Cueball" and "Megan" models he uses for a lot of his comics, including entirely fictional ones, which muddies the water when there are some comics where "Cueball" is a creep to "Megan". (At least one of those I read as being critical of the Nice Guy mindset - "Friends with detriments" in the mouseover - but other people here have taken it at face value.) That's a precise skewering of the nice guy mindset, yeah.
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Feb 17, 2021 06:04
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Beerdeer posted:
Nothing shows confidence in your lame rear end joke like wasting an entire page to let a cut and paste ninja methodically explain it to the audience.
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 Menace #1 (1953)   Kobalt #4 (1994)
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TwoPair posted:Speaking of Taskmaster, check out his bold new policy from #3 of his current series  Punisher #226
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Feb 17, 2021 17:18
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 holy poo poo I didn't realize that was a callback
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Feb 17, 2021 17:40
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I actually forgot about that too lol nice
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Feb 17, 2021 17:49
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Actual-Skull helmet always looks so dumb. Udon 4 ever
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Ignite Memories posted:Actual-Skull helmet always looks so dumb. Udon 4 ever I can't think of anyone else right now who's had a costume change that was both stylistically so different, and short-lived, and is still thought of by a lot of readers as the better one. I don't count Spider-man's black costume cause, I mean, it was a whole arc
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Ignite Memories posted:Actual-Skull helmet always looks so dumb. Udon 4 ever Wrong.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:14
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There is nothing cooler than a skull.
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The creation and propagation of multicellular life is just a roundabout method of generating skulls. Life forms are a byproduct.
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Libra posted:The creation and propagation of multicellular life is just a roundabout method of generating skulls. Life forms are a byproduct. I ain't gonna say you're Glenn Danzig because I expect that's an insult in some circles, but you do sound like you could have written "I Want Your Skull"
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It's 2002. I am reading the Something Awful forums on my friend's account, where the Udon Taskmaster suit is being praised. It's 2021. I am reading opinions on my comic book, Taskmaster. Skulls rule.
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Taskmaster is a character where it makes abundant sense that he'd try to rebrand himself for business reasons. Pirate boots and skull mask definitely sell "I teach your goons to wear ridiculous outfits and get punched by Captain America," but the Udon suit is, like, from his failed effort to move into "boutique private security" when he realized the real money was in Venture Capital startups with paranoid founders. He was so close to the Theranos contract, but he realized that he just wasn't going to be able to move that far out of his wheelhouse and went back to supervillain work.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:
Hahaha christ, I feel like you need to release annotated editions of all your work for us regular folks who miss these callbacks and references.
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Feb 17, 2021 21:48
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:It's 2002. I am reading the Something Awful forums on my friend's account, where the Udon Taskmaster suit is being praised. It's 2021. I am reading opinions on my comic book, Taskmaster. Skulls rule. I chortled.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:It's 2002. I am reading the Something Awful forums on my friend's account, where the Udon Taskmaster suit is being praised. It's 2021. I am reading opinions on my comic book, Taskmaster. Skulls rule. It's cause Taskmaster rules  Agent X - Vol 5
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Oh wait this is the Funny Panels thread not the Badass Thread! Taskmaster sucks!   Deadpool (2016) #7
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Udon suit is cool, but Skull Mask is way funnier. Do a series where he accidently becomes the guardian of a child and still has to do mercenary poo poo and you can go back to the Udon suit because it scares the child less.
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Infinitum posted:It's cause Taskmaster rules He looks like a knockoff doom here.
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Infinitum posted:It's cause Taskmaster rules He does, but Chow Yun Fat (and John Woo) grew up in Hong Kong. Chinese and English are spoken in Hong Kong, not Japanese. C'mon Taskmaster, get your poo poo right!
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I think the other guys in the scene are speaking Japanese.
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I think those are supposed to be separate things, that he can do martial arts and shoot with two guns from the movie, but also he can speak Japanese.
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Yeah, he learned punching dudes and catching their guns from the Chow Yun Fat marathon. He learned Japanese elsewhere.
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Taskmaster is good.  (Fanart rather than offical, but still good. Artist has drawn a few boobs, so other stuff may be nsfw.)
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Hotlink wasn't showing up for me. House of Mystery #28 (1954)  Icon #6 (1993) Darthemed fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Feb 18, 2021 16:19
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If we're posting taskmaster, the only two good pages in all of Secret empire 
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Does the comics world have any mainstream (I know that's a relative term) professional henchpeople other than Taskmaster and Batroc? I like that shtick. Show up to go against whoever's actually on the cover and don't need an introduction or explanation why they're involved.
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There's a ton. The bar with no name is literally the hangout for professional henchpeople. Like half of Spidey and DD's enemy roster chill there
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I liked Batroc's line as a Delaying Action Henchperson whenever it comes up in this thread, and I'm honestly a little stoked to find out he's coming back to the MCU for the Falcon and Bucky show
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My exposure to Bartoc only comes from Marvel Heroes, where I will always remember him as Bartoc Silly-Bear.
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