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OldTennisCourt posted:Are we talking 616 Punisher or MAX Punisher because no amount of money is worth loving with the latter. The Slavers in particular, where one of the big bads tries to dissuade his insane father from the motherland from fighting the Punisher. "Father, everyone who fights this man dies."
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Davros1 posted:The best outcome of The Slavers was several arcs later when Frank is marching a guy out to shoot him, and in his mind he's trying to convince himself that he did not go as far as he did in The Slavers. That the actions he committed were so horrific, even to him, that maybe they didn't actually happen. "A big angry dude wears a skull emblem on his chest and shoots people and calls himself 'The Punisher' because he's MAD his family died!!" is a really stupid sounding premise and he's honestly kind of a joke everywhere else he appears. In Max he's murderer batman, entirely mortal but an engine of death because he gives even less fucks and hesitates less than even the most psychotic criminal. Also the whole implication from BORN that he's literally an avatar of death or something.
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Sep 24, 2014 22:33
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edit: Eh, whatever. I really enjoyed Punisher MAX until Barracuda or whatever. That guy was awful. Fabricated fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Aug 2, 2015 |
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Aug 2, 2015 04:40
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Choco1980 posted:That was a timey wimey bull that was immediately undone. However, there was a different JLU episode that was basically the finale to BB that they never got to make that not only tied into JLU's plot heavily, but BB's as well, and revealed...things about the show. BB was really good IMO; kinda had a tendency to kill villains in horrible ways but also kinda nice not to have the same dude terrorizing Gotham for the 800th time in a row leading to that "Why don't they just execute the Joker?" kinda thinking. ...There are an awful lot of shots of Terry looking shocked as a bad guy dies hideously though, even when half the time he's the one who caused it.
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Aug 28, 2015 19:56
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I dunno, I liked most of Punisher Max. That was a good take on him up until it got really stupid towards the end. The Punisher as a relentless avatar of death that's more like a force of nature you watch utterly annihilate everyone retarded enough to try him on, and you only root for him because the people he turns his sights on are even worse than he is.
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Nov 9, 2015 20:39
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Travis343 posted:That falls flat for me, at least, because you've got to get truly, cartoonishly evil ideas about street level crime to think those people are worse than the Punisher so you can feel good about watching him murder people by the dozens. It's like Death Wish, it's a gross, Reagan-Era power fantasy that exists in the same world as Captain America and Spider-Man.
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Nov 9, 2015 21:53
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TheFallenEvincar posted:I had to straight up stop reading that eyeroll worthy childish bullshit from Ennis, particularly The Boys. It nearly ruined Preacher for me too but at least I got through that. like, I've seen American comics produce stupid poo poo like juvenile poo poo like Crossed but I don't think I've seen anyone produce a popular series as weird, creepy, racist, and nationalist as GATE.
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Nov 9, 2015 22:28
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Naoki Urasawa is way more likable and well-adjusted and cool than like, weird old grumpy Alan Moore.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:Yeah, that is a good point, I guess it's just about avoiding the lovely poo poo in both comic scenes. Man do I hate that whole Marc Millar/Garth Ennis comic book vibe though. Whatever you'd call the poo poo they do. edit: The irony of this is that currently in Japan one of the newest, most popular mangas for the tween/teen set is a superhero manga created explicitly to pay homage to American Cape comics, complete with a mentor figure who is literally drawn like a silver age American comic hero in comparison to the standard "anime" style of everyone else. Fabricated fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Nov 9, 2015 |
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Nov 9, 2015 22:33
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Toshimo posted:Link? Don't get it twisted; it's still very anime/shounen (complete with a tournament arc) but there's a lot of winks and nods and outright references to American Comics (including a "Kal-El" Hero Office). Basically, think X-men, but 100+ years after the X Gene manifested in 80%+ of the population rather than 1%. Far less bleak. Typical school setup- think Xavier institute but with heroism being a legit job you can work towards.  Again- it's still very anime but it's a blast so far and has fantastic character designs and mutant powers. One of the later villains is basically a McFarlane badguy. 
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Nov 10, 2015 00:13
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Also if I'm gonna knock out a half a page on a derail may as well post a page/panel if mangaposting this one time is alright. The set up is that the MC (dude with the busted hand) has inherited the strength of his world's "Superman". The problem is that using anything but small amounts of it destroys his body- he can destroy walls with the air pressure from flicking a single finger if he doesn't mind shattering it; he's fighting a dude who's half Human Torch, Half Iceman here in a tournament (because its manga and there must always be a tournament) and he's been using his fingers up one by one destroying his ice. Now he's out, and he can't move his fingers anymore. 
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Nov 10, 2015 17:59
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Flesh Forge posted:I don't understand what's being shown, did he bite a hole in his hand and then flick blood at the guy with super force? He straightened his busted thumb with his mouth so he could flick it again.
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Captain Bravo posted:The set up is that the MC (dude with the two hands) has inherited the hunger of his world's "Chicken". The problem is that his friends ate chicken without him.
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