#powerman

I find it really fascinating what kind of people get stuck with more modified serums, they tend to be the kinda people use to experiment on in real life too. Personally I like that they themselves aren’t directly entangled with captain America. they have their own stories and themes and villains to deal with, they just have a bit of connective tissue in terms of backstory.

Personally I’m not a huge fan of taskmaster getting his powers exclusively through the serum but I don’t dislike that he has it. I just think his photographic reflexes should be something he was born with, was never tested for an x gene and got his memory fucked with when given the serum. Combining both backstories into one. I still believe he was originally supposed to be a mutant. You can also play with a lot more themes this way and if you wanna power creep, you can give him a secondary mutation similar to what he has in the ultimate universe.

Luke cage always feels like a generally steady character for me, and I enjoy that his arc has him go from a freelancer to mayor of New York. He makes a good foil for kingpin even if he’s more of an all arounder villain. Also I don’t really ever like this man in super suits of any kind, he’s a more grounded character even if he’s basically just a better captain America. It takes alot of personality away. More than anything though I like the contrast for him taking gunfire, it shows off his power very well, otherwise you can have it feeling like the suit is the thing that is bullet proof. It’s also just a good way to show character like how he doesn’t use his hero name “powerman “ very much at all.

I enjoy bob, sentry and void. They are very recent comics so there’s not much room for a ton of character telephone but I think how he’s been explored has always been fun. His narrative is almost a mystery in a way the difference between what is real and not make for so much fun opportunities. It’s a little unfortunate they can’t adapt everything thing from his mythos but I’m very happy with what we got.