tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post533996445728087282..comments2023-09-05T09:06:09.136-05:00Comments on Atop the Fourth Wall: Punisher 2099 #1Lewis Lovhaughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06724769374732321363noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-58156029577741943402015-01-08T09:28:25.901-06:002015-01-08T09:28:25.901-06:00"Looks like someone doesn't get satire.&q..."Looks like someone doesn't get satire."<br /><br />Looks like someone doesn't know this is the old website.Lewis Lovhaughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724769374732321363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-12562166318360693982015-01-08T08:13:11.373-06:002015-01-08T08:13:11.373-06:00
Like Judge Dredd and Marshal Law before it, Pun...<br /><br /><br />Like Judge Dredd and Marshal Law before it, Punisher 2099 reads as pure satire to me and it would require effort not to take it as such. <br /><br />Trying to attach real world aesthetics/mechanics to it is completely missing the point - like throwing a dart at a fat person two-feet away and missing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-44388873224069611052015-01-08T08:01:33.560-06:002015-01-08T08:01:33.560-06:00Looks like someone doesn't get satire.<br /><br /><br />Looks like someone doesn't get satire.JOE SOAPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08395640441078343605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-62613059573009326692014-04-23T15:28:50.301-05:002014-04-23T15:28:50.301-05:00Not sure if you've realized by now or been inf...Not sure if you've realized by now or been informed, but Punisher 2099 was written (and drawn) entirely to make fun of American comics in the 90s. It was written by a Judge Dredd/2000 A.D. writer.Eskoenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-57695658875686269882013-06-11T03:26:49.380-05:002013-06-11T03:26:49.380-05:00Unbelievable. I mean, really, this is Punisher 20...Unbelievable. I mean, really, this is Punisher 2099? He's just like the regular Punisher only with Rob Liefeld-style body design and weapons. I'll stick to the original Punisher, thank you very much.<br /><br />In short, a bad Marvel 2099 comic.Mingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-83347449370726395332013-06-04T17:44:39.426-05:002013-06-04T17:44:39.426-05:00Old school triple homer with Castle "Aaaargh&...Old school triple homer with Castle "Aaaargh". Keep up the work good!<br /><br />I understand that ads need to be injected, and can ignore them without a brain fracture. The one I get is something about some Ladies who mispronounce the word "Ask". Hilarious satire of...well I have to look into it. Satire of something?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-87681317060210582312013-05-29T22:12:45.010-05:002013-05-29T22:12:45.010-05:00I'm going to have fun with with some future fi...I'm going to have fun with with some future fictional slang. <br />The Punisher comic does look pretty Shtako and so does his costume. <br />I do however, enjoy the cameo of 2090's kid. I just hope the 90's kid doesn't screw up 2090's timeline .Ariannenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-7827080072974097552013-05-20T19:43:22.048-05:002013-05-20T19:43:22.048-05:00Ok, I knew this one was bad based soully on plot o...Ok, I knew this one was bad based soully on plot outlines I've read when researching 2099 in the past but yeah this was pretty goofy! I am still curious of Jigsaw 2099 as his design looks like the stuff I draw when bored!<br /><br />I've heard of and seen Franken Castle Punisher and seen images but where is this Black-Punisher from!? Also, one I've heard of but not read but want to read just for how terrible it sounds is the Punisher as a Constantine/Dylan Dog style resurrected angel demon bounty hunter story arc that last like 4-5 issues before being retcnned! <br /><br />I agree that "punishment rod" has been in some places it shouldn't have gone! boooratthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10590994147343396522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-87654135640176693952013-05-19T16:40:55.277-05:002013-05-19T16:40:55.277-05:00I'm loving 2090's Kid about as much as I l...I'm loving 2090's Kid about as much as I love 1990's Kid, mainly because I knew a few people in my high school that were just like him. (And no, that's not sarcasm-I genuinely mean it). It's a neat little piece of nostalgia for me. I graduated in 2000, to give you some perspective. <br /><br />I only recently discovered this show-I was watching the Nostalgia Critic review of Superman IV on Youtube, and in the sidebar was a link to the ending of your 100th episode, so I watched it, thought the song was pretty catchy. Youtube search-found Bimbos in Time. Yeah, that was my first intro to AT4W. I laughed my butt off, and kept watching. (In my defense, I honestly didn't know about this blog until I did a Google search)<br /><br />I'm also really impressed by how good your storylines are-they don't detract from the review at all, and as in the case with the Entity, are genuinely spooky. That voice...so damn terrifying. (Though I'm probably one of the few people on here that never played Pokemon-'yay' for epilepsy!]<br /><br />Oh, another YT video I watched a lot was one that compiled all your breakdowns into one. Damn you for picking such an earwormy song! I had 'Combine Harvester' in my head for days after. <br /><br />As to this comic-it sucks, and your review was very funny. Also, I need to watch Puma Man again. "Someday, I hope to be as bald as you, Sir." <br /><br />So from a fellow capitalist,feminist,Christian MSTie, keep up the good work! <br />Meganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019795333244522222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-1255909489243466362013-05-18T14:59:56.000-05:002013-05-18T14:59:56.000-05:00To be fair to the comic, I think that the offer to...To be fair to the comic, I think that the offer to psychoanalyze the psycho guy is something plausible to do if you're in danger and not thinking straight. She's trying to save herself by, essentially, appealing to the criminal's emotions.<br /><br />However, there is something very stupid at work here in the comic. I refer to the radiation thing. Others here have aptly pointed out that resistance to heat would not provide resistance to radiation. There is a reason why radiation is harmful... and yet the use of microwaves is idiotic to the EXTREME.<br /><br />Radiation is defined by it's frequency and wave length, both values which are related to one an other and the sped of light (which is the speed of all electromagnetic waves actually, making it kind of a misnomer). The higher the frequency, the shorter the wave length, and the more energy the wave contains. The frequency of microwaves is BARELY higher than that of the visible spectrum, the radiation that our eyes take in and use to form images, which is completely harmless.<br /><br />The reason radiation of high frequency is dangerous, such as gamma rays, is because these radiations are of high frequency. Without getting too deep into it, they cause chemical reactions in every cell of our bodies, which cause necrosis and a variety of other effects. Microwaves? Those would MAYBE cause such a reaction is you stood in front of a microwave for the entirety of your life.<br /><br />Cancer and mutations are an entire other can of worms, but suffice it to say, that's damage over time that microwaves could potentially inflict (it hasn't been proven yet) and isn't something that one could immediately use for a weapon.Darth Revannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-70404550281242183452013-05-18T12:03:38.574-05:002013-05-18T12:03:38.574-05:00Frankencastle was an awesome Punisher run. Good cr...Frankencastle was an awesome Punisher run. Good crazy comic fun. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-52097176542744593112013-05-18T02:18:26.632-05:002013-05-18T02:18:26.632-05:00I'd just like to say that I was very, very dis...I'd just like to say that I was very, very dissapointed by this series when I read it, but unlike you Lewis, I'm actually a fan of the punisher. Also, I am a gun nut, and really into science (as a hobby, my major is in psychology). So for me this failed on soooo many levels it was painful to read.<br /><br />Also, I'm finally getting ads on blip for your show (In Spanish, by latin American companies no less). I'd also point out that sometimes U.S. companies pay for advertisements outside the U.S. anyway because their products have cross-border appeal. For example there were ads for Blackberry when I used to watch The Daily Show about 4, 5 years ago.<br /><br />Personally I am AGAINST advertisements. I am aware however that this being your main source of income, you should be getting your fair share for your work, and quite simply donating directly or buying shirts and other stuff is somewhat impractical for me because of the peso-dolar exchange rate. And although the ad revenue is probably much lower proportionally, this is what I can do right now, emphasis on right now.<br /><br />I hope you can get enough revenue to keep producing AT4W for many years to come.Luis Francisco Angulo Andradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02646174657378870713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-44935730317283123752013-05-17T17:26:18.286-05:002013-05-17T17:26:18.286-05:00You pointed out early on that when he first appear...You pointed out early on that when he first appears, his shirt doesn't have that skull thing on.<br />What you didn't point out is, it appeared on his shirt a couple of panels later.<br />What, did he stop to get changed in the middle of a firefight?<br />Or is it some kind of special future shirt, that has a logo that appears and disappears? Was this about the time hypercolour shirts were in fashion?<br /><br />~ MikAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-3513508994498574552013-05-16T19:21:22.285-05:002013-05-16T19:21:22.285-05:00It's nice to know that Kron's surgery stuc...It's nice to know that Kron's surgery stuck. Considering he's Venom 2099 and all.<br /><br />Actually, there's a very logical reason for why nobody aims at his head. It's too small to be a proper target for those enormous guns. They'd never hit it. Better to aim for the bigger targets: chest, legs, etc.DaveWirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09672665544573427575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-35649024456668358672013-05-15T22:31:55.172-05:002013-05-15T22:31:55.172-05:00For the love of every good, Scribblenauts Unmasked...For the love of every good, Scribblenauts Unmasked better have Snowflame in it. Especially after the developers said that the game has every character from the DC Universe no matter how obscure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-32616161376241114972013-05-15T15:37:56.499-05:002013-05-15T15:37:56.499-05:00I think the diary is something that should have be...I think the diary is something that should have been visited and revisited over the course of the book i.e. on first reading he ignores Castle and thinks he is crazy but when he loses his family he feels like Castle would have known what he was going to and start to open up to the ideas in the diary, ending with him taking up the mantle of Punisher.<br /><br />Garethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-19050379560087966052013-05-15T14:58:32.826-05:002013-05-15T14:58:32.826-05:00"PUMAMAN! =3"
at some point in time you..."PUMAMAN! =3"<br /><br />at some point in time you have to do a top 10 list for superheroes which names, costumes and powers have nothing to do with each other- like pumaman's main power is flight... because... you know.. puma?! *shrug*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-69485029844443251812013-05-15T14:10:39.256-05:002013-05-15T14:10:39.256-05:00Oh yeah, I also have to mention that Punisher 2099...Oh yeah, I also have to mention that Punisher 2099 came out in 1993, while Ghost in the Shell SaC didn't air in Japan until 2002 (and no, there was no "Laughing Man" in the manga, and the sequel "Man Machine Interface" didn't hit until 2001).<br /> <br />So yeah, there are a lot of reasons to hate this comic without making crap up whole-cloth.<br /><br />If anything, it was full of good ideas and horrible executions (see what I did there?! I'M CLEVER!!!).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733092136405275237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-21235749660709619142013-05-15T13:59:07.497-05:002013-05-15T13:59:07.497-05:00To everyone pissing on the "heat sink armor&q...To everyone pissing on the "heat sink armor", especially Lizerd-guy...<br /><br />Yeah, the American military is actually experimenting with superconductive armor to absorb and dissipate the heat of a directed laser. <br /><br />See, according to physics, energy cannot be destroyed, only changed, so when the photon particles of a laser hit something at the speed of light, the kinetic energy is laughably small, but then when it comes to that sudden stop, it turns to heat, which builds up as trillions more particles collide with the same spot. By bleeding the heat away, you can make it so the laser takes much longer to burn something, like a missile that would be destroyed in the few seconds it was in flight. Body armor is remotely possible, given a hundred years, and would probably reduce the damage from a regular photon laser significantly. Also, the radiation? Yeah, there are many forms of "radiation". One of them is heat, which any laser can generate, unless you're talking about an X-Ray laser, which is a lot easier to make in space, and required a nuclear explosion to work.<br /><br />So there you have it, the most realistic, Hell, the ONLY realistic part of the comic is a major target of fan snark.<br /> <br />Science, people, learn it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733092136405275237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-12165975702329601372013-05-15T13:39:34.029-05:002013-05-15T13:39:34.029-05:00You know Lewis, not that I don't think this co...You know Lewis, not that I don't think this comic is bad...but I actually unironically liked the character design of the "Dragon Ball Z Man", even if the execution is lacking.<br /><br />Because really, when you think about it, what better archrival for the Chaotic Good character than the Chaotic Evil character, you know? Kind of like how in Dexter, one of the main villains was a seriel killer just like Dexter, except evil.<br /><br />Basically, paint the dude as this absolute, unstoppable monster, and you've even got a very effective motivation for Punisher wanting to become stronger. He's desperate enough to gain strength and skill, because he's paranoid that the day will come when, once again, another monster comes into his life to take everything away from him, a monster who can't be stopped by any red tape, or any law...<br /><br />So, in that way, I actually thought DBZ Man's character design was a good idea, just not used well at all.Fionordequesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829330391564762295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-27287946407126059842013-05-15T08:35:11.500-05:002013-05-15T08:35:11.500-05:00"Which MST episode is that with the "Fal..."Which MST episode is that with the "Falling at a 60 degree angle" clip? I think I need to give that one a watch."<br /><br />PUMAMAN! =3Lewis Lovhaughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724769374732321363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-39661836326387834802013-05-15T08:20:11.149-05:002013-05-15T08:20:11.149-05:00The street surgeons remind me of Repo: The Genetic...The street surgeons remind me of Repo: The Genetic Opera.<br /><br /><br />Which MST episode is that with the "Falling at a 60 degree angle" clip? I think I need to give that one a watch.Ozalinehttp://outofthefridge.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-86176680961638048032013-05-14T18:16:26.418-05:002013-05-14T18:16:26.418-05:00Hey Linkara, I have a quick question about your vi...Hey Linkara, I have a quick question about your videos. I watch your videos on the blip.tv iPhone app. Do you get revenue from video views from the iPhone app?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-11977794515148209392013-05-14T17:07:50.790-05:002013-05-14T17:07:50.790-05:00You know that the Thor Hammer (Mjolnir) necklace i...You know that the Thor Hammer (Mjolnir) necklace is actually a real symbol that Viking sailors used to protect themselves from harm at sea.GoldenKinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17882646266371744028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809126056034906096.post-88244402699292551372013-05-14T14:40:30.793-05:002013-05-14T14:40:30.793-05:00Okay, from the top.
Street gangs of surgeons and ...Okay, from the top.<br /><br />Street gangs of surgeons and the only law is corporate police. And here I thought the Spider-Man comic was boringly generic in its cyberpunk themes.<br /><br />A Punisher who wears should pads so large and wide that he shouldn't be able to move his head to look around him.<br /><br />Have to notice that the first fight seems to miss one of the main points of the Punisher. He's supposed to be professional. Why wouldn't he just shoot the criminals in the legs (from a safe distance in hiding) and then beat them up.<br /><br />After that, what's stopping the police from just getting a description of his face from the criminals? If he has the tech to hide his face from cameras, other people will too so obviously witness descriptions are still used.<br /><br />As for shooting heads, I will note that it's incredibly difficult to actually hit a person's head (which is why soldiers and police are taught to shoot at the center of mass)... but then it falls apart because apparently these psycho criminals are good enough to hit his legs.<br /><br />And then the story falls apart even more. So we're in a dystopian future where the police are brutal and apathetic, but at the same time outright say how they can give 'brutal punishment'.<br />Also it's incredibly stupid to pretend that someone who horribly murdered a cop's family would be allowed to live. Word of advice, corrupt elites tend to do their best in nations like the one depicted here to keep the police happy. Want to know why? Because the police are the ones with guns. The ones who can shoot up the corrupt elites if they ever get angry. So yeah, what would happen in reality? In reality that psycho would probably be dead.<br /><br />And if the system actually has brain surgery that CAN make people not want to commit crimes, then why the hell don't they use it? Even corrupt idiots who aren't scared of angry cops would want to end violent crime that costs them money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com