Contest of Champions Storytime

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First up, we meet my new (and only) favorite Punisher.

Good looks, OP. This was a great book.

Tbh, I ignored it at first because I thought it was just a trashy video game tie-in.

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>>84617039
I have never played the video game this is based on, but I assume its 'free-to-play" and tedious as all hell.

>>84617015
>>84617031

I really want Garth Ennis to write an Outlaw series. He's from the UK i'd love to see his stance on him

>>84616939
To the writer we need, but not the one we deserve!
Long Live USAvengers!

>>84616939
When's future fight get a comic?
We have a pretty cool OC.

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Flowers aren't food captcha

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>>84616939
>thumbnail
>that Gamora
I'm sad now.

>>84617289
What ever happened the the generals? I still play every day

>>84617383
>posting an image in a storytime
C'mon man

>>84617548
Who's the red one? And why the fuck is stick there

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Have to say, if Outlaw wasn't the best, Guillotine would probably be my favorite Champion. I would totally read a Guillotine ongoing if weaved through all these characters.

>>84617742
They're on /vg/ now.

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Oh, guess who's back and no one knows cause they don't read good books.

>>84617986
There are a lot of cursed bloodthirsty swords in the MU.

I'm a huge Ewing fag and just lost track of this book. feels bad. Glad he got a decentish run to play with, that Civil War 1 cover is amazing. Hope he gets another personal fun book

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quick variant I like and then to the story.

>>84616939
man this comic has been fucking crazy. Unfortunately it's way too DEEPEST LORE to really ever sell well.

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>>84618269
Yeah but this one's French.

>>84616960

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/outlawpu.htm

For anyone interested in previous appearances.

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>>84618464
That's not even what killed it from what I heard. It's mostly because everyone thought it was just a cheap tie-in and they felt their money was better spent on events or some shit, I don't know.

>>84617015

Reminds me of the lady from Ennis's run who named her dog Frankie.

I'm pretty sure it even had as close to a Frank Face as a dog can get.

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>>84618513
Thanks dude.

>>84617864

There's a kind of "Zero Issue" that showed why the Maestro resurrected him.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ma11dpjyhjerad7/0.cbr

>>84616960
This book has the two best Punishers in it. Nigel is a saint. Gallows is... Gallows.

>>84619043
Edge

>>84618486
So it's bloodthirsty and sounds like Pepé Le Pew.

>>84618305
While I understand that sometimes taking a simple story premise and trying to turn it into an "Event" can suck some of the fun out of the story and drain the writer of the main plot who now had to work with lots of other writers to coordinate on tie-ins, does anyone think that having Contest of Champions be the big event this summer INSTEAD of Civil War II would have worked out better for everyone?
>So much more stuff to work with
>A legitimate follow up to the events of Hickman's glorious Secret Wars
>Bringing back old heroes who have died with an explanation instead of a hand wave, and using them to a fulfilling end
>Killing characters for the all important "Shock Value" but without needing to make their deaths permanent so you don't make waves with the writers working with those characters
>So much room for tie-ins to show off some of the off-screen battles
This is the story Marvel should have backed for an event comic. It even has a flarking mobile game they can push with it! It's got buzz all over it. But instead of hyping it and making it their big Event they went with a limp idea like "Civil War but Minority Report" and even limper writer like Bendis.
I just... I just wanted to say that. I'm gonna miss this comic guys. I'm gonna miss it and I don't know how to deal.

>>84618951
I fucking love Pirate Punisher.
Shame he can't really show up in anything else after this without diluting the "he's happier having retired" element.

>>84619132

the biggest problems
-not a movie.
-people want "Stakes" which means "real" versions of the characters are effected.
-the people who care about and enjoy ewing's continuity wank are minuscule

>>84619132
Don't do this to me, man.

>>84619220
A strong enough motivation might make it okay, maybe? He would never have Punished TM in the first place without the ability to be moved to action at all costs.

>>84619132
It was fun while it lasted, so we can at least be happy about that.

>>84619234
>-the people who care about and enjoy ewing's continuity wank are minuscule
You prefer Bendis' Lack of Continuity Wank?

>>84619263
Search your feelings anon. You know we now live in the darkest timeline.

>>84619334

i'm saying not enough people care about the lack of continuity .

tho i have seen /co/ rant about shit that isn't a fuck up like Bruce being paranoid about Hulk returning

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People should post this page in every Hulk thread.

"Born to break the rules of uncool fools!"

>>84619432
Bendis is still a shitty writer.
Maybe they could have just put Ewing in charge of Civil War II. He could have probably spun gold out of that shit.

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This numberings weird, I am 90% certain I'm not missing a page 18.

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In other news Tony sucks. What else is new.

>>84619801
I miss this Eddie, RIP.

Ewing is the hero Marvel needs but doesn't deserve.

I hope Ewing uses Guillotine in some NOW book.

>>84619960
This

>>84619944

Big 2 don't deserve any of their good writers if we're starting down that road

>>84618486
Ares is great.

>>84617039
>Tbh, I ignored it at first because I thought it was just a trashy video game tie-in.

This is the second reason I think it didn't last as long as it should have.

The other is Avengers Arena making people like me wary of it.

Because Avengers Arena Ruins Everything (tm).

>>84617986
Guillotine and White Fox were tops for me.

But Outlaw was cool too.

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>>84620257
White Fox is cool but spies aren't really my cup of tea.

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Guess who's back, back again
Thrasher's back, tell a friend

>>84617445
I missed the Hydra emblem on his chest the first time I read this.

>>84619220

I think this is his, like, second or third retirement, though.

Dude cannot seem to get out of the game.

>>84620377
I wish he kept this look when he went back to 616, perfect blend of the tacticool and radicool that is Night Thrasher.

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>>84620460
same.

>>84620377

I'm sure McDuffie is spinning in his grave.

>>84620377
And then this was the issue where I nearly has a major seizure in seeing one of my favorite 90's heroes back from the dead at last.

>>84619640
How come all Hulks look like the Hulk? I thought the gamma bombing didn't made you into a green giant by default, it had something to do with your subconscious or desires or whatever. Like the reason She Hulk wasn't enraged and giant, because she actually desired control, while Banner only became the Hulk because of his self-destructive psyche.

>>84620502
Is he doing it on a skateboard?

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>>84620514
That sounds like a rule Anon. And you know what the Hulk does to rules.

>>84620514
I'm pretty sure Teen Hulk was a thing before that rule was a thing, I could be wrong.

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Fuck, I love Nigel.

>>84620568

The Collector unintentionally saving Coldheart while getting Night Thrasher might explain her random reappearance in Standoff

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>Bowling arm

Jokes are dumb as hell but I love them.

>>84620603

Yeah, there's two What-Ifs where Rick became the Hulk (one from the 1970s, one from the 1990s) and the one here presumably comes from one of them.

I hope how Stick took out the Sentry is actually explained, because I'm still scratching my head over it.

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>>84620790
It is.

>>84620794
Ollies for days, bitches.

>>84620925
Sentry is too pure for this dark disgusting multiverse.

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I read very little of the Punisher 2099 JSA storytime but I believe this is completely in character.

>>84620512
i really dislike this "character breakdown"
it either misses characters, or labels them wrong/not enough info.
Rick jones hulk just shows up and is gone within an issue
madame hydra is listed, but never on that page, and the void is called the void in comic, but referred to as sentry everywhere else, including there
the holes arnt "question mark surprises" we're told who is there half the time, hell sometimes on the covers

>>84620994
The chair is, yeah. He's not quite as 2000AD here tho.

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I wish Ewing could have played this out across the 12 issues he was planning.

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Kind of wonder which Maestro this is.

>>84621155

Seems like the one from the Secret Wars with God Doom, no? I can't remember, was there more than one Maestro?

>>84620377

UPN almost made a Night Thrasher TV show back when they were a "black channel".

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>>84621251
I remember at least two, though one was an alternate Steve Rogers, I think?

>>84621292
That was more an Alternate Steve than a Maestro. I can only remember one Maestro.

>>84621155

The one from Secret Wars: Future Imperfect, I assume.

A handbook says it's "Earth-69413".

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>>84621264
God I hated UPN. Being their target audience just made me hate them more.

>>84621342
Poor illyanna. She got to be the token woman fo the tournament.

>>84621155
>>84621251
It's not the original Maestro from the Future Imperfect storyline, it's the new Maestro from Secret Wars (2015) book called Future Imperfect. The former showed up in Spider-Man 2099.

>>84618261
Is that Magik's sword?

>>84621342
>the judicator
>picks nazi red scull cap who possibly is in a thong

>>84620377
TEENAGE

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>>84621339
Yeah but didn't he turn into gold or something in a Lotus dream at the end?

>>84621442
NEGRO

>>84621442
NEGRO

>>84621520
>>84621523
NINJA

>>84621552
THRASHERS

>>84621597
>so what if you have a sliver of the power of the greatest gods and are all powerful in your own right
>i got a buncha shit i stole mang

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I wonder if it's a rule that if you draw Panther in a chair he needs two strong women flanking it.

>>84621458

He showed up in the final battle, so I guess Doom restored him out of desperation for troops, or something.

>>84621342

"I'LL TAKE THAT ___, ___" is best victory cry.

>>84621789
Time for crossoverkino!

>>84621857
I haven't been reading ultimates, can somebody explain to me how/why fucking galactus is on their team?

>>84621932

they tricked him back into the "egg" that he hatched from and it cooked him up and he evolved into Galactus Bringer of Life.

>>84621932
He isn't

>>84621986
I like his madness. It's cute.

>>84621932
He isn't, really. It's just how it was promoted.
He's now a vaguely protagonistic cosmic force instead of a vaguely antagonistic cosmic force (thanks to the Ultimates doing some cosmic fuckery on him) and he's now bumming around in their book while rarely actually crossing paths with the team.
(Read Ultimates, it's great.)

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Fucking Nigel man.

>>84622053

Should have used the gun that shoots souls to death.

That would have done the job 100%.

>>84619517
>Sentry wearing Hyperion's metal diaper
What does it mean?

>>84622053
>This is bullshit. You can't ground Night Thrasher.

>>84622100
This page, man, is just glorious!

>>84622100

Jake's family was murdered by a serial killer, so I guess he found this in poor taste.

>>84619575
>Kills Daredevil
>Steals his sticks
Brutal

>>84622179
>poor taste

HAHAHAHA!

>>84622100
I don't get it.

>>84622232
Iceberg is a type of Lettuce.

>>84622192
>robbie the robot was supposed to be from "normal" earth and thats part of why they showed silver fox so much
oh
well now that makes sense

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I like a team that's so ballsy they would totally get in a fist fight with the Grandmaster.

>>84622100
lettuce leaf?

>>84622284
what a coincidence i was thinking the opposite, but to each his own

>>84622401
Oh hey! My letter!

Still love that it was published.

And the pissbaby "I disagree therefore you a wrong and a bad person!" level of response it got from Arena fans.

Troglodites are always funny when they're desperately fllnging shit.

>>84622360

Frank's War Journals being actual books with fancy covers and spines and everything is exactly how they looked in a few old stories.

It's kind of hilarious.

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I really like this cover.

>>84622053
>Outlaw: British Punisher
You know you're D-list when your description relies on referring to another character.
At least his power isn't skateboards like the guy across the hall.

>>84622483

there are that many Arena fans?!?!

loling hard at that blame the editors joke

>>84622377
wat

>>84622522
I'd rather be skateboarding Batman than non-lethal Punisher.

So what are the Ultimates? Are they the Ultimates from Ultimateverse, or they just took their name but are all heroes from 616?

>>84622583

They fight the Ultimate threats to existence. yeah it's flimsy but whatever.

>>84622583
The latter.

>>84617383
i feel the same

>>84617742
Some salty mod banned video game threads, so we had to migrate to /vg/.

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>>84622583
A bunch of people who are hella overpowered fighting things even stronger than that.

>>84620324
>tfw we will never actually find out

>>84617289
Sharon Rogers deserves at least a one-shot.

>>84622506

They may be insane monologues, but that doesn't mean that they can't come in pretty packages.

>>84618561
Yeah, everyone I tried to convince to read it basically shrugged it off by saying "it's non-canon so who cares?"

Unfortunately, tieing it to the game was actually its undoing. I bet without the whole video game tie-in stigma then it would have lasted until issue 12. That's 2 more than we're getting!

>>84620443
Is this cover an homage to something with Thanos?

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Night Thrasher doing ridiculous shit 100% seriously is always great.

>>84622653
>klynthars

That moment when reality hits you and you want to cry.

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This is apparently an actual comic panel, which I appreciate.

>>84622771
I hope Ewing does a Night Thrasher ongoing at some point.

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welp.

>>84621155
It's the one from Secret Wars: Future Imperfect.

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I like this aspect of BM's character. He always end up blinking and not fighting when his back's against the wall, despite how much power he has.

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>>84622973
Yeah I realized that during this reread. Thanks.

>>84622539
Wait for the next issue, you'll see the response.

It's pathetic.

>>84622100
A B S O L U T E M A D M A N
>>84622214
This is hilarious, too.

>>84622377
So remnants of the symbiote fused with remnants of the void/sentry? That's terrifying
Also I feel like maestro should be able to beat the ultimates but he'll end up getting beaten

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>>84623054
By the way I would totally read an ongoing with this team. Shame Champions just got taken.

>>84621932
He's less of a member of the team, and more of a partial ally who has his own plotline running concurrently with theirs in the book.

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Penultimate issue. Great series ending in tie-ins. Fucking shame.

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This is so unbelievable. The U.S. would never elect an eccentric businessman to the highest office.

>>84623258
Looking pretty manly there Natasha.

>>84623306
>A covering the A
how terrible and wonderful, all at the same time

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>>84623366
sorry I forgot. ahem.

>fucking Nigel.

>>84623424
>It's better than Google

T-that's not exactly high praise there, Maestro.

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>Spidey hanging off a bicep.

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I respect that Ares tried and am amused he failed.

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Also this is the busiest storytime I've ever done, thanks guys. I wish I had half this turnout for the We are Robin storytime I did a couple of weeks ago.

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>>84623672
a man's man :*(

>>84623651
I feel ya' man. Hard to get people to care about storytimes these days. It's definitely caused me to storytime less as a result, but good on you for carrying the torch.

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Here's hoping for a Punisher three-way.

>>84623651
I'm enjoying this storytime, keep it up man

>>84623719
Thanks for the storytime, OP.

>>84622152
Best character in the book has arrived

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So I'm done. Try to keep the thread alive til tomorrow if ya can. There's room for the last issue. I have work so I won't be able to do it though.

Anyways, night.

>>84623719
Thanks, OP. Short, but sweet.

Why would the Maestro care so much to leave Fox there so she wouldn't send anymore heroes after them, but then he'd take the president of the United States in front of everybody?

>>84623719
Thanks OP, going to buy this tomorrow before giving blood.