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MotW 9/1/10: You're all a huge disappointment to me.
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BUY IT, THE LOT OF YOU
But my MOTW goes to the Silver Samurai:
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*To Amazon!*
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At least I think that's what he said.
Also, why is Punisher no longer Frankencastle?
The Frankencastle story is being resolved in the Punisher and Dark Wolverine crossover. He should be back to normal by the end of it.
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I'm actually kind of disappointed by it, but I think it has more to do with me than it does with the story. My problem, specifically, is that I've always viewed Taskmaster's power - "photographic reflexes", or whatever they call it - as an ability to instantly manufacture muscle-memory after seeing an action performed. The premise of the Taskmaster mini is that all the things that Taskmaster has learned how to do are overwriting all of his other memories.
Why this bothers me: I don't think brains work like that. OK, yeah, I know, it's dumb to complain about inaccurate brain-workings in a comic, especially when the character in question can look at a dude do a somersault and then immediately replicate it, but look, as far as I know, procedural memory (involved in knowing how to do things) is completely separate from declarative memory (involved in knowing and recalling facts). Saying that one is overwriting the other to me sounds like saying that your arms are getting so strong they're replacing your legs. This is one area where I have trouble suspending my disbelief. NERDRAGE
Other than this, I mean, it's pretty well-written and stuff. There are some great moments where Taskmaster's old pupils in Hydra are reminiscing about what he taught them.
Total aside: I don't understand how Taskmaster can be such a great teacher. He's taught everyone from Hydra to US government agents, right? But how? Yes, he knows every superhero's moves, but he knows them on an instinctive level, no? He didn't LEARN how to do a somersault through practice, he just looked at Daredevil do it and now he can do it. That doesn't mean he can impart knowledge on how to do it on someone else! Isn't it like asking a fish to teach me how to swim? To a fish, you just... do it.
Hell yes it does.
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Plus, I think that being able to perform certain actions instinctively would give him a really good sense of how the body works, and how to move certain parts in conjunction to achieve the desire effect.
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motw: Jeff Smith's mastery of the line. I finally read through all of the complete Bone. Never read more than an issue here or there. Now that I was finally in the mood for it and had the chance to sit down with the whole thing: wow, deserves its accolades! Dude is really pro with the expressive but almost classical-comic-strip-y lines. He could convey one of the Bones' moods just drawing a single outline of their head.
A lot of teaching comes down to body language and delivery of the material. If he at some point figured that out, it wouldn't be too hard for a guy with his skillset to slot in Beginning Team Combat Tactics in place of, say, kickball.
I don't like the idea he forgets stuff as he learns more things, that's kind of a weak premise to hinge some flaws to his abilities. Now I'm hesitant to buy the issue.
It's too bad I'm not digging this mini, because I love Taskmaster and I love Fred Van Lente. Oh well, I'll always have the UDON mini-series.
Frank and Spider-Man talk, Spider-Man's mate was kidnapped by a the "king of death" and needs Frank to get her back. He gives Frank Deadpool, Black Widow, and Scoropion to help free her.
There's some great scenes, like so:
But you also get a story that is a bit too padded with Simone pet characters, and is a bit confusing in it's pacing. And Catman imitates Citizen Steel and punches a kitty (Stargirl wouldn't like that). It's still a good book but could have done with a plot or two less, especially coming off of some fill-in issues.
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It seems like the kind of thing Simone would want to wrap up, and there's really no better place to do it.
Also, I kinda want to see Giganta join the team full-time, maybe kicking Black Alice off.
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The way Catman is basically having a complete mental breakdown, I wouldn't mind seeing him go live in Africa for an arc or two and someone from Bane's team replacing him.
Has mags interacted with Doom ever?
Evidently, yes. Here's the actually two-parter.
I thought the reveal at the end was handled terribly, but I suppose it was the only way to tie up that particular loose end.
In any case, the Sound of Music costumes made the issue worthwhile.
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Isn't that just like the whole "Can God create a stone so heavy even he can't lift it?"
You're telling me philosphers have spent countless of years trying to wrap their heads around that one, and Marvel comics did it in a two parter? Awesome.
And The Punisher vs. Marvel was great. I really like the art for it too. The writer's actually made it so the whole post apocalyptic/zombie thing doesn't seem old.
Now I just hope Marvel doesn't run it into the ground like they did with the actual zombie universe.
i wish they'd do more to promote the book. like, have a crossover with JLA or something
well, after they fix JLA
i have a great idea for them
hire me dc comics
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This is how i'd see it working. Task Master has seen the best in the business do their things, he knows exactly how it should be done, then he see's his students attempting it and compares the two and works out exactly whats been done wrong.
I don't even know how to whittle this down for a #1 moment.
Discovering Radical Comics thanks to Munch's suggestion re: Last Days of American Crime is a serious contender. $5.00 for an issue which is almost a slim TPB with glossy pages and no ads? $1.00 for nicely printed normal floppy books to kick off the #1 issues? And American Crime itself hits a lot of heist buttons so that's a winner, but I had to branch out and grab two issues of Shrapnel for its pleasingly grimdark sci-fi digi-painty styles.
1 Month 2 Live stars a dude who tries to be a good samaritan and is forced to ingest medical waste. This both gives him super powers (some sort of molecular level TK, reshapes matter when he touches it) but also gives him roughly a month to live before his cancer kills him. He bumps into Spider-Man and the FF. Is it weird that I'm ready to watch a guy die on the pavement in a street level Marvel NY story? Still, not quite MOTW worthy yet.
Sea Bear and Grizzly Shark! Everyone in GV was right, and this is in fact a deliciously bad B-movie double feature in comic book form.
Wolverine #1 was fairly well drawn but otherwise horrible, except for the Last Stand of the Silver Samurai extra in the back, which I loved almost more than anything else this week:
But I think the weekly award has to go to: Getting a copy of the hardcover of The Amazing Screw-On Head signed by Mike and Katie Mignola.
p.s. Texiken I flipped through secret six but was slightly lost as a non-DC dude. I need to see about a trade paperback.
p.p.s Munch they didn't have any atomic robo on hand but I have been meaning to start following it anyway, so it's on the to-do list.
But yeah Secret Six was not friendly to new readers, even as it would be the start of a new arc.