>>150199515
Literally none of them have the accumen of Kirkman to know about how a fight between the two would go down. Shitperman loses. GoKEK loses. The end.

>A hush fell over the convention hall as a young fan, clutching a well-worn copy of Invincible #1, stepped up to the microphone. "Mr. Kirkman," he stammered, "I... I just have to ask. How do you maintain... that?" He gestured vaguely at the imposing figure on stage. Robert Kirkman, a man widely known for crafting worlds of profound gore and even profounder heart, settled back into his chair, which groaned ominously beneath his colossal weight. At a staggering six feet ten inches and an estimated four hundred pounds of pure, densely packed muscle, he was less a writer and more a sentient, cyclopean granite monolith, perpetually radiating an aura of intense creative pressure.
>Kirkman let out a low rumble, part chuckle, part tectonic shift. He adjusted his colossal frame, the chair groaning in protest. "All natural, I might add," he began, his voice a gravelly baritone that seemed to vibrate the very air. "People think it's some exotic protein shake, or a special weight bench. They're wrong. It's… work. Hard, relentless, soul-crushing work."
>He paused, letting the dramatic weight settle. "See, when you create worlds as unforgiving as The Walking Dead, as brutally powerful as Invincible, your body has to learn to house that kind of energy. Every character death, every betrayal, every impossible moral choice… I don't just write them, kid. I absorb them.
>Every time I write a character into an impossible corner, that's a rep. Every time I consider a truly gruesome death for someone beloved, that's a set. My diet? Pure, concentrated existential dread, harvested directly from the despair of my readers, with a healthy dose of raw plot twists for protein. The deadlines are my cardio, the fan theories are my resistance training, and the occasional cancellation rumor? That's my high-intensity interval training. You gotta live the brutal narrative, kid, if you want to be the brutal narrative." He flexed a bicep, a topographical map of muscle rippling beneath his sleeve.

>>150082213
>"Look," Robert Kirkman began, leaning back in his studio chair, the faint hiss of the microphone the only immediate companion to his exasperation. "I love Dragon Ball. I do. I grew up with it. It’s iconic. It redefined shonen, set the stage for so much of what came after. But the sheer, unthinking outrage when you even suggest Mark Grayson would decisively beat Gohan… it’s genuinely baffling. And honestly, a profound intellectual disappointment."
>"It's not about raw power levels, which in DBZ are a completely arbitrary scale designed to escalate endlessly. The power scaling in DBZ is a joke, intentionally so. It’s about the next big transformation, the next planet-shattering attack. It's a spectacle. And it's brilliant for that! But there's no consequence."
>Kirkman leaned forward, a fire igniting in his eyes. "Mark, on the other hand… Mark gets shredded. He gets beaten to an inch of his life. He regenerates, yes, but those injuries are real. Think about the Viltrumite War, or even just his initial beatdown from Nolan. Gohan, especially at his peak, is immensely powerful in his universe. But drop him into the Invincible universe, where a punch from Thragg or even Nolan could literally dismantle him on a cellular level, without a Senzu bean or a convenient power-up… he wouldn't last. The sheer, sustained, brutal durability and capacity for inflicting lasting damage on an opponent that Viltrumites possess is on an entirely different plane than anything Gohan consistently faces, even from Buu or Cell."
>"The DBZ fans just scream 'ki blast!' without considering the actual durability, the consistent internal logic, the narrative intent behind my characters' resilience and their capacity for inflicting brutal, lasting harm. It’s frustrating because it demonstrates a surface-level engagement with the mechanics of the fiction they claim to love. It’s like they appreciate the fireworks but ignore the actual engineering behind the explosion."

>>149980699
Mr. Kirkman is so eloquent. It's no wonder he's responsible for two of the franchies that made the Big Two quake in their boots (The Walking Dead & Invincible)

>>149790331
>Kirkman chuckled, a warm, resonant sound that carried genuine amusement. He took a sip of his lukewarm coffee, then set the mug down deliberately. His gaze was sharp, intelligent, and imbued with that particular glint of a creator who knows his craft intimately.
>"Ah, the eternal gladiatorial match-up," he said, leaning forward slightly, his voice dropping to a conspiratorial, yet clear, tone. "And look, I'm a Superman guy. Always have been. He's the archetypal hero, the big blue boy scout, the symbol of hope. He is the gold standard in comics. And that's precisely why Omni-Man wins. Effortlessly."
"And look, I appreciate the passion, truly. It’s fun. But let’s be… clinical, for a moment. Let’s talk about the mechanics." He paused, letting the anticipation build. "Superman versus Omni-Man. And honestly, for me, the answer is remarkably straightforward, if you look purely at the data. At the raw, unadulterated output."
>Kirkman gestured with a hand, as if laying out a blueprint. "When we designed Nolan, when we built Omni-Man, we weren't really thinking about a cap on his physical capabilities. We were thinking about what it would look like for a being to genuinely operate without physical limit, or at least, without one we’ve ever seen him approach. You see Nolan punch through universes, shatter multiverses, level entire cosmologies as a casual act, a demonstration, or even just a tantrum. His destruction isn't a struggle; it's a consequence of his very existence, of his mood, of his simple need to manifest power. There's a fundamental, unyielding force at play there that, visually, narratively, is simply on a different scale of raw, brute power output. He’s not just strong; he's the embodiment of infinity, untethered."
>He finished with a final, definitive nod. "That's not an opinion, folks. That's just what's on the page. In terms of sheer, quantifiable output, it's not even a contest."

>>149768591
As it should be. Omni-Man is an inspiration, a platonic constant, a celestial pattern. An idea greater than violence and the threat thereof. Smart Atoms are just the tip of the iceberg

>>149755623
Incorrect little Hulkbitch
>Invincible vs the Hulk
>Kirkman: I don't know... Is Invincible strong enough to crush the Hulk's head?
>Ottley: ... He could rip [Hulk] to pieces, throw his head into the Sun, draw and quarter him... Yeah, Invincible.
Omni-CHAD who's Mark's equal up to the end of the series also gapes Hulk.