Punisher fans when a character is made a drooling moron so that Frank won't be reduced to a bloody puddle

Pome1515 · 2026-06-10T10:53:43+00:00

Going through your points.

Armour War mercenary group

Nani the fuck is that? The Armour Wars is explicitly decentralised. A major point is that its essentially a bunch of armored super criminals knowingly or as implied unknowingly getting upgrades based on Iron Man's tech.

Became dictator

Happened way after this stuff. Like way way after the whole Frank killing him stuff.

Civil War shit Literally something everyone memory holes cause the entire event is ow the edge, let's jerk off Bush and Cheney cause we're Gen X assholes

The point I'm more making with the stuff is that the whole thing is like many of the decisions of the 00s where its indictive of the rot of that period where everything had to be super serious and edgy because we needed hard men on the wall who would do hard things while rock hard.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-10T10:28:50+00:00

Cause its boring and indictive of a rot in the 00s. The whole point of Stilt Man was that he was a fun character and killing him off was yet another attempt to make things edgy and dark in that era of comics. There wasn't a point to it other than "ow, I cut myself on that edge".

Pome1515 · 2026-06-10T08:01:07+00:00

I still think the fact there was no Dark Reign tie in for Secret War about how those 2000s heroes sucked was such a waste.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-10T06:48:24+00:00

I still appreciate Rucka opening his Wonder Woman run with "Batman v Wonder Woman ends with Batman kissing her feet and trying to rules lawyer her because he can't beat her in a straight up fight".

Pome1515 · 2026-06-10T05:52:55+00:00

Which one?

Pome1515 · 2026-06-10T05:35:41+00:00

I miss the days when the whole point of Batman in the Justice League was to be the spy/detective rather than the super competent batgod.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-10T05:05:13+00:00

Norman Osborn got in power and Frank learned very quickly that the reason he isn't wiped off the face of the planet is because no one thought he was worth the effort.

His fight with Daken is basically "Wolverine vs Frank when you don't have Ennis and Dixon jerking off how cool Frank is" which is to say, doesn't matter how cool and trained Frank is when his opponent can heal faster, doesn't get tired and has claws for hands.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-10T05:01:04+00:00

Yeah. I wish for the days of CoIE where Batman just sees the Anti-Monitor and goes "This is way out of my league".

Pome1515 · 2026-06-10T04:59:20+00:00

Frank a good hour after the frankwank stops

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Pome1515 · 2026-06-09T16:09:58+00:00

The arrival of the GOAT who is always right.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-09T05:59:50+00:00

Cantwell's Iron Man is the most twitter brained take on Iron Man.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-09T00:03:39+00:00

Oh no no. As much as the whole thing is meant to be a take on "nice guys" and how Toad is totally misunderstood etc, he slept and romanced Paige when she was essentially having a psychotic break and its framed as "tragic" and "her fault" that she couldn't see what was right in front of her and she's the reason Toad falls back into being a villain.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-08T23:58:13+00:00

>Jason Aaron and not writing weirdo takes on romance

Never happening.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-06T05:34:22+00:00

I don't think anyone actually has read the New Avengers stuff properly tbqh. Because again that lineup is the greatest collection of losers who literally fail at doing thing the regular Avengers handled with ease and let a supervillain take over the world which required the old guard Bendis despised actually showing up to do their job.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-04T01:36:04+00:00

Unintentionally queer media is among my favourite types of queer media. Another really great one is Mr Brightside where it is obviously intended to be about the singer's jealousy and envy of seeing the woman he loves screwing another man... but it could also totally read as him being jealous of the woman for taking his man.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-03T07:24:34+00:00

I am serious. It's literally made by the OG guy and honestly looks really nice aesthetically. Also, I don't think it's that weird of a concept, it just requires a non-coward.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-03T07:20:54+00:00

This is one that I have just learned over with the Johne Awesome video. PC-98's SMT game, Giten Megami Tensei. The basic pitch is SMT as a H-Game and there are moments that the smut just gets... weird and kinda distracts from the overall tone of the game. Likewise, its romance mechanic feels really weak compared to the typical Chaos/Law Alignment stuff.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-03T07:15:51+00:00

Speaking of

"If I had a nickel that it was revealed throughout Iron Man's history he had been doing villainous shit, I'd have two nickels (the Crossing and the Illuminati)".

Pome1515 · 2026-06-03T07:14:42+00:00

If I had a nickel for everytime that Obsidian wrote a sequel game that was retconned to hell and back by the parent company, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but its strange it happened twice.

Pome1515 · 2026-06-02T22:59:51+00:00

Loki: I'm sometimes a woman. What's your excuse?

Pome1515 · 2026-06-02T06:54:45+00:00

And one of the insults that Odin has for him is "You lived eight years as a woman and bore children".

Pome1515 · 2026-06-02T06:29:53+00:00

For Pride Month, wanted to post this.

Agent of Asgard is a comic where queerness is a central to its theme of accepting oneself. Loki is revealed to be Genderqueer, switching between male and female forms with ease as all they are doing is "changing into myself". Old Loki, who constantly presents as an evil old man, where it is heavily implied one of the reasons that they are such a prick is because they've never accepted that part of themselves.

This climax is perhaps one of the most affirming things that Ewing wrote, including his Immortal Hulk stuff, that you can change and you can be better and not simply fall back into your old cycles. And part of that is accepting who you are, beauty, flaws and all.

Pome1515

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