Storytime: Deadpool vs. The Punisher 4

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Damn this is some good art. Only gets better from here, too.

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Aw shit, Wade's mad.

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Tasky has some damn loyal soldiers.

>>92852984
Sounds like a good plot, I wasn't even aware this was coming out

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Holy shit that Cape-Fu.

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This is actually Punisher and Task's first real fight. Only time they met before was back in the early 90s, when Punisher was fighting Tombstone and Task was fighting Daredevil.

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Here comes Wade. Can Task stand up against his personal kryptonite?

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Turns out he can. Task fights smart, and in a rare showing, completely whoops Wade's ass.

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Frank's back in the game, though. This page is GORGEOUS. Task puts up a hell of a fight, but you can tell he's surprised.

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Man overboard.

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Task looks ready for round two, but here comes the kid whose mom he kind of decapitated...

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A hard-fought win.

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Uh oh. Wade's mad again.

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That's all, folks. 'Til next issue.

>>92853027
Sometimes I forget that DP is really good with kids.

Thanks OP

>>92853345

'makes sense, he basically is one.

>>92853345
That's how I determine Deadpool writers. If they remember that he doesn't hurt kids.

>>92853564

Same with Task

>>92853274
GET FUCKED FRANK!
I do like punisher, but he can be extremely trite at times

>>92853274
Jesus, how's Frank gonna come back from THAT one?

>>92853192

now THIS is how you draw a fight

>>92853274
So I guess this is a Frank clone or something? Since he just got shot in the head?
What'd I miss?

>>92853274
Fun read

>>92854279

Nah it's really Frank, he's been headshot before, he'll live. Notice it's a bit off-center.

>>92853977

Remember what Taskmaster said? His gun is an airgun. Deadpool shot Frank with Tasky's gun.

>>92853192
Good fight. Last time, taskmster was oneshot by Cap. Bullocks, he is the best fighter in the world.

>>92854319
Yeah but straight through the head, also >>92853255 doesnt sound like Frank.

>>92853051
I don't think Frank is coming out on top here.

>>92853154
>>92853136
In all honesty I'm surprised they're still making good comics over at Marvel. This is some beautiful action.

>>92853108
he's a very good teacher

>>92853274
I did not see that coming.

>>92853136
>>92853154
>>92853180
Its good that finally some writers show Task to be a badass fighter.

>>92853136
>>92853154
It's been a long time but we finally get to see Taskmaster do well in a fight again.

>>92855903
>>92856204

Yep, Tony is a monster when he gets going. He's had a couple other really good showings recently. He kicked the shit out of Evil Deadpool in Mercs for Money.

>>92853274
F, thanks for the storytime OP

>>92852980
thanks!

>>92853093
thats practically silver age ham right here.

>>92853136
>>92853136
i kinda wonder what franks wiki page would look like in universe.

this mini gave us such great art and fun, this is one of the best minis of the year.

>>92853180
Didn't Deadpool beat him once while his legs and arms were tied together?

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>>92858025

Yep.

http://imgur.com/gallery/sS5Ut

>>92858025

Yeah, but as he mentioned, he's learned a lot since then. Taskmaster always improves, it's his whole thing.

Also that issue was weird because while he says "I didn't let you win", the very first time he sees him in their fight he opts out of just shooting him in the head. So in a way he was going easy on him.

It was a weird comic.

>>92853192
THIS is how you do a team up story.
>Enemy of my enemy is my friend

>>92858295
Taskmaster often suffers from who's writing him, he's managed to solo avengers teams by himself and sometimes he gets knocked around by random street-level heroes the authors are mary-suing like atm like new Hellcat and Squirrelgirl

I'm just glad they never let Van-Lette's shitty headcanon of Tasky constantly losing his mind and having a secret S.H.E.I.L.D Agent wife who he keeps forgetting ruin the character outside of any book he's writing

>>92858580

I think Van Lente is the best Task writer, as evidenced here. I admit his mini went a bit too hard on the amnesia angle, but he seems to have moderated it some in this series.


Task did okay against Squirrel Girl. He kicked the shit out of like 15 heroes at once, including Hulk, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Wilson-Cap. It took a crazy idea to beat him. He was a monster in that issue, even if he was written very strangely.

But yeah, Taskmaster is like any street-level villain who isn't a nemsis; because he bounces between appearances, he gets written by so many people he's inconsistent as hell.

Spencer's Taskmaster, for example, is incredbly witty but not very strong in a fight. Meanwhile, Dan Slott wrote Task as a total teambuster in Avengers Initiative.

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>>92858696
I like to think he moderated it because everyone from the fans to other writers hated the idea because it shit on a ton of good Taskmaster moments and made him horrible to write for

>>92853345
That's always been a mainstay quality of Wade. He can be a horrible person, but he always has a soft spot for children.

Also, I absolutely love how this writer made Taskmaster a legitimate threat again. I'm so tired of writers turning 90% of Marvel's villains into a joke. Task is perfect for a street level team up like this.

>>92858806
I liked that story a lot. It also kept the feeling that Taskmaster was a threat, but it was just that Peter was so riled up and off his rocker from Mj being kidnapped.

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>>92859866
In my opinion Slott and Gage wrote the best Taskmaster between Avenger's Initiative and Avengers Academy playing him up as a working class villain just trying to make a living and protect his rep

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>>92860104
The worst though was Udon who basically only liked his powerset and name and wrote the character super boring and ridiculously inconsistent

>>92859778
That's the thing about having different levels.

A character who is a joke when fighting something like the Hulk can still be a major threat when fighting someone at street level like Daredevil. There are a few that blur the lines, but as far as Taskmaster goes, he's higher than street level, so to come down and fight Frank makes him a big deal.

It's like if Luke Cage had to take on Magneto, he would really struggle while Magneto would look like one of the biggest threats on Earth.

Frankity Frankity Frank

>>92857621
I think there's a few in-universe style handbooks, like Civil War Files. That's probably the closest we'll get.

>>92853051
Still don't know who the students in the brown uniforms are supposed to be dressed as.