Y’ever think about how the MCU took Taskmaster, frequently a supporting character in Deadpool comics, and turned her into a silent killer a la Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, only to realize they hecked up and kill her off in Thunderbolts*?
(To be 100% clear, this is not a complaint about the gender swap; this is a complaint about the personality erasure. A female Taskmaster who was every bit as two-faced, opportunistic and skilled as her male comics counterpart would have been infinitely more interesting.)
There’s a version of the MCU where Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is still a thing and a talkier Tasky from another reality shows up and hangs around for a season. That could be fun.
But we play the cards we’re dealt.
Check out our exclusive preview of Wolverine #23, out next week, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
W: Saladin Ahmed | A: Julius Ohta | CA: Dan Panosian
POWER GRAB! What’s worse than LOGAN fighting with shattered claws and diminished mutant powers? HIS ENEMIES WITH SAID POWERS! And TASKMASTER is bringing the pain to WOLVERINE, right when it hurts the most!
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