Let's continue with Avengers Academy folks! Reading up to

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>>90963926
How is everyone doing tonight?

>>90963926

my favorite issue of the series.

>>90963953
Good. My wife just had her gall bladder removed this afternoon, so I'll be babysitting her for the next couple days.

Looking forward to finally being able to read some comics.

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>>90964064
Always nice to see Tasky.

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>>90964083
I hope she is okay! It's super cute that you are taking care of her!

>>90964064
this is the second best issue. Prom issue is number one

>>90964064
This issue made me a taskmaster fan. Wish he would be in a ongoing

>>90964115
you should check out the Taskmaster min by Van Lente from like 2010.

Best Taskmaster

Link to previous thread?

>>90964263

Even though it is a vain hope, I could wish for another series with these two in it.

>>90964083
Did the doctors let her keep it in a jar?

It's good luck to keep your severed body bits around.

>>90963926
>It's a "taskmaster actually has a shit memory" status quo
>>90964115
Ew. Turned Taskmaster from a great cocky asshole villain into a "CRAWLING IN MY SKIN" tier character.

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>>90964338
A father daughter on going where they forget they are partners ever issue? I'd read it.

>>90964234
Will do thanks

>>90964357
Fuck, the derision was meant for
>>90964234

Best modern Tasky is from Simone Deadpool and Avengers Initiative

>>90964367
Dan I'm shocked you can enjoy that Taskmaster retcon, though that could work as a good single issue story book.
Idk I just way prefer Old Tasky

>>90964357
Meh i like both takes on character. I like it better if he is written well.

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>>90964439
I really don't mind it, Tasky can and does work as a villain without much more going on than wanting money and usually getting a one up on the Avengers and being the punch clock villain type. That's well and good, great even. BUT there is nothing wrong with adding the small "I'm losing my memory" stuff, it can 100% be used well, like in this issue. It's not the most original or deep character development ever but it has potential. It is also really good for Finesse.

>>90964442
Taskmaster was pretty unique as a character, and even more unique to cape villains, as just a dirtball who did whatever he needed to get by and get paid. He wears a ridiculous costume out of branding for fuck's sake. It fit perfectly with his power, he never actually made anything for himself, just piggybacked off of and took advantage of other people.
The new version is just such a generic "MUH MEMORY" change, that comes completely out of left field, is supposed to be some ironic twist on his power, but to me comes off as retarded as fuck, and sucks 100% of his personality away. Taskmaster is supposed to have a great dickish antagonistic relationship with the heroes, an "anything you can do I can do better" mentality, and the retcon throws all of that away.

>>90964442

I think it's an interesting premise and weakness that you rarely if ever see. Re-occuring amnesia? Someone capable of going toe to toe with top level heroes who has a fundamental weakness that damages who he is without him having to do anything but exist.

I think people prefer him as just a badass but honestly best villains always have flaws.

And really he isn't even that great of a villain on his own, since really all he is a merc. He wants to learn moves nobody else has and get paid for it.

Usually villains have more of a purpose that is destructive to society. I mean shit his daughter killed more people recently than he has. I can't think of last time Tasky actually killed someone.

I mean I suppose you could say whole Udon nonsense but that is even further from who he originally was than anything.

The way they explained him getting basically captain marvel tier abilities plus identic memory boost basically makes him just a better captain america, but giving him this weakness, makes him unique.

and it also gives him a language only his daughter can understand and share which is also kind of neat, a literal translating language of combat.

>>90964540
But Dan, he loses his blue collar element if he can't keep bonds and grudges with other characters.

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>>90964613
He could write it down. We could have a Memento with Tasky. Also they aren't like bound by any actual time line or rules for this. Like no one is saying he can't remember someone shooting him two years ago.

>>90963953
I was studying, but then all these storytimes happened.

>>90964673
I'd read the hell out of a Memento-like story staring Taskmaster

>>90964673
Right but at this point he wouldn't remember kicking the entire Avengers' ass the first time he faced them. That's just wrong.
And the irony and dramatic tension of memento is that none of the conflict and problem for the main character is genuine. He is only going because of the tats and notes, not because he actually cares or has an impetus.

>>90964701
God i forgot how annoying veil is in this

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>>90964729
Again man there are no hard and fast rules to Tasky's memory loss.

>>90964757

>Tasky shows up in Iron fist season 2

>>90964277
>tfw i'll never draw a smiley face on the back of Hazmat's helmet

>>90964729
I think the way you play a story like that is that he feels or has hunches about a series of this and then its slowly revealed the audience how or why.

His emotions would be as much clues as the stuff he finds

>>90964757
So "I'll just use it when convenient" sounds like solid writing for a shared universe and canon to you? Like you previously said you wanted a book where Finesse and Taskmaster forget they are partners each issue. Taskmaster wouldn't even know he's a Supervillain at that point, and sure as fuck wouldn't know about him whomping the avengers.

WHY IS CHRISTOS GAGE NOT A FULL TIME WRITER FOR MARVEL!?

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>>90964823
It's not really a big deal to me if he remembers some stuff and doesn't remember others, I think you are over thinking it and are viewing this as like an iron clad death sentence that Tasky can never remember anything ever again. You can have both anon, it's not impossible.

>>90964881
To me it's just a complete tainting with cliche to a very pure and unique character. How many "Muh Memory" stories are there throughout all media? Yet there was only one Taskmaster. DC doesn't even really have an equivalent.
And it is a big deal to me, why should he have amnesia at all if it's not gonna be consistent? What's the fucking point?

>>90964879
His quality dipped severely in recent years. He was a part of the X-Shitfest going on

>>90964556
CRAWLING IN MY SKIN

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>>90964933
Because it can make for some interesting stories while not being such a big deal that every Tasky story HAS to be about his memory loss. It's a pretty benign addition in all honesty. Also this isn't like a punched and knocked out amnesia, this is more like a more functional Alzheimers. It in no way ruins Tasky.

>>90964987

Or you could play it off like Fugue states. There is a lot more ways that you can play and flavor the writing from that point which could actually help make him even more unique. Such as learning abilities that go with moves or something. Trade offs for remembering and not remembering.

>>90964987
If we're just gonna have him only forget things that don't interfere with him being a villain and let him maintain his great history then why is he amnesiac at all? It's essentially an admission that the change is weak and damaging to the character. It does fundamentally change his character too. If he can't remember what he did last week, then why would he want to get money, what is his motivation for being a villain now? And every big change in shared universe cape comics becomes forced to the front, it's partially an editorial problem, partly one of the writers fearing reader backlash. He hasn't been in much over the past few years, though I hear he's in Spencer's Cap, what's he look like there.

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>>90965172
Being Hazmat is suffering

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>>90965216
At this point I don't anyone remembers that he doesn't remember things. I think overall you are getting far too upset about a minor tweak that can be occasionally drawn upon for good stories without having to be the main focus. As for why he wants money you may not remember why you bought your couch but I bet bottom dollar you still use it. Lastly I reiterate, there is no set in stone rule here in terms of how long he has to remember something or what gets purged exactly and what doesn't. You are acting as if Moses came down from the mountain saying Tasky forgets everything in 48 hours, no more no less, when really it isn't that serious.

>>90965314
I may be overreacting but it is just a really disappointing change to me. I do even like that issue, but the implications it had for the rest of his character (Gage wrote him as Memento tier there) saddened me. I guess I'd have to see it as dogma to really be justified though.
Don't want to shit up your thread Dan, sorry, you've been better than me to most people I'll ever meet, the amount of comics you've shown me.

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>>90965408
Just try not to worry about it anon, it's a superhero comic, it's like the weather, if you don't like it then just wait, it will change.

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>>90965465
I miss 'em

Hazmat a cute! A CUTE!

>>90965725
And then they all lived happily ever after. The end

>>90965216
You keep throwing the word "amnesia" around when it really doesn't describe his situation at all. His memory just prioritizes differently than the average person, mono focused on fighting.

So he vividly remembers all the old fights he's watched and taken part in, but can't recall the face of Finesse's mother. Real life memory, is very often this fickle, though generally not with those particular subjects.

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>>90965774
The issue where Hazmat and Mettle get married was my favorite.

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Thanks for reading guys!

>>90964302
Great issue. There isn't a Recommended Taskmaster image floating around by chance, is there?

>>90965910

This is kind of what I'm thinking anyway, after years, even regular humans lose details and by about 5 years out or so witness testimony is so unreliable that they won't use it alone.

People don't realize how malleable memory is as time goes on and your brain plunks details into thinks where they shouldn't be. You keep the gist of memories in long term but a lot of fine details disappear.

>>90966262
My first exposure to Alchemist was Final Exam, seeing him set up like this is great.

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Bump Academy

>>90966273
There is a wiki, anon. It never gets updated but Google will forever be your friend.

>>90963926
>Gage

What happened to him? How'd he end up being Slott's lackey?

>>90963926
Bamp