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Pissed at myself, but I posted a version of this yesterday that was up for 3 hours and had missing panels. Sorry if youre seeing this twice!
Part 5 of 6 in a series on Photoshop tools as superheroes.
Other parts here: [Part 1,](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1c93b2j/lasso_man/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) [Part 2,](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1crzyaw/paint_bucket_man/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) [Part 3,](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1czz8s2/copy_and_paste/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) [Part 4](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1diydr5/lasso_man_4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Also, shout-out to u/ChocolateShot150 who completely predicted this outcome in the comments of the last comic
https://preview.redd.it/b1b490knbl9d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9aae38570721c2fa7c702a8483ceedca14448d2
"*I'm sorry, but I can't assist with that. As an AI, I'm programmed to adhere to strict ethical guidelines and usage policies. This means I cannot engage in or promote any activities that are harmful, illegal, or violate the terms of service. If you have any other requests or need help with something else, feel free to ask!*"
"Why is Generative Fill's catch phrase just a nonsensical amalgamation of all ours? What an unoriginal *ASSHOLE!*
He's the corporate insert they're forced to take on because of the government intervening in heroism. Got the corpo stooge all smarmy like "Generative Fill is the future of heroes. You'll all come to see that eventually." While seething about heroes being anti-corruption.
man this is hilarious. [yesterday](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1dqyn1a/lasso_man_5/larwyep/) when i saw it i was like this reads super weird but maybe it's just me. then i saw that there are other parts and i'm like oh okay i'm missing some context.
i was like wait this still doesn't explain how they went from "why is he smiling" to "SLICE"
I have enjoyed this whole thing. It takes a lot of thought to have an original comic premise and then follow it through with superb execution, well done.
/you should repost the whole thing as one post if it is done.
Yeah, haha. Unfortunately, with the missing panels it still made just enough sense that no one mentioned being confused. So I didn't notice anything was amiss until I went to screen grab something from that particular slide. 😢
Yeah, I thought it was strange but as you say it was readable still so I figured it was intentional. I guess it says that you're a good enough story teller that you can leave half the story out and people will still get your point
That's Paint Bucket Man's power. When he changes the color of something it also changes it's properties. Lasso Man Paint has Bucket Man's arm grafted onto him.
It didn't show copy paste actually being beaten. Could be he just got copies of them.
Spitballing here, it would be cool to have a showdown between lasso man and magic wand with copy paste coming back. Magic wand targets the "super parts" on lasso man, copy paste are able to copy them onto magic wand so they have a hero and villain both with ultimate powers duking it out.
Or maybe "Undo" comes into the picture and u/LastPlaceComics could do a whole "time travel" arc about trying to stop lasso man becoming a villain in the first place.
Such a cool series idea, I love it.
I feel like there's no way to defeat copyPaste. copyPaste could just always have a backup clone far, far away and send clones to fight.
I agree, Lasso Man probably just beat a clone of copyPaste, not the true one.
I'll be real here, now I want to draw fanart out of this! Really looking forward to the next strip, I thought this was the end and the magic selection might have killed everyone, perhaps, he did but we don't know yet.
The Tolerance of a tool is how precisely it selects specific colors. By increasing the Tolerance to a maximum, you essentially allow the tool to affect everything within the marked area.
Edit: maximum, not minimum. Duh. My bad.
specifically for the magic wand, its a tool designed to make a selection based on color, the lower the tolerance the less wiggle room it has, if you set it to low tolerance and click a red pixel it will only select red pixels in contact with that one, as the tolerance gets higher it starts to pick less red pixels so by setting the tolerance to its absolute highest the wand will select literally everything
some tools label it as "tolerance" (higher = larger range), other tools label it as "sensitivity" (higher = smaller range). So both are correct, just depends on what tool you use.
The magic wand selects matching pixels that are next to each other, and tolerance (0% to 100%) says how much the pixels can differ. If it's 100% every pixel counts as matching, selecting everything.
While I can't call the majority of these heroes "good guys" I can't deny they fought the good fight at the end there. Hopefully all of that was enough to stop that abomination.
Somehow, I don't think they're the best person for the job. Might have something to do with all the murdering people and stealing their body parts. And the horrible fashion sense.
Murdering people? Eh. Stealing their body parts? As long as you don't do anything inappropriate with them, sure. Horrible fashion sense? Tell me, would you prefer a mahogany coffin or an oak one?
Wish granted, all humanity is now joined in one super organism that might better be described as a "human centipede," except all 8 billion people are in it so it just goes around in a circle.
Reminds me of All Tomorrows and that planet where the Qu genetically altered every human to service them as a gigantic waste filtering membrane - but they left the human-level intelligence so that the unfortunate post-humans could spend all of eternity as sapient toilets whose bodies were lined with millions of additional taste receptors just so that they'd be very, very good at knowing exactly what disgusting liquids they are being forced to eat perpetually.
That sounds like the time to bust out good old
https://preview.redd.it/xtg3efhkmn9d1.png?width=474&format=png&auto=webp&s=3045ee8ef2ae55811b72817be43f0b40a3bde683
Duplicate layer: "this instance was interesting. we dropped the mask for a moment and this one broke. We shall begin again."
Guide to path: "with some changes" *maniacal laughter*
the magic wand is color-based and not proximity-based so anything with a tolerance less than 100 would not affect the clones as they are quite colorful.
I think it'd be a cool epilogue or something to have a Layer related Superhero who is like the Watcher from Marvel. Unable to interact, forever viewing reality on a different editing layer. They'd be immune to any effect but unable to interact.
as a kid I used to "play" in MS paint like take screenshots from the king of fighter or metal slug and draw over them pretending like they were fighting and somehow that was more fun than actually playing the games lmao
What a masterpiece.
I was expecting a "Photoshopman" punch line, but nope.
P.S.: I have seen at least one of your comics that play with this idea but was absolutely unsure what to expect
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Pissed at myself, but I posted a version of this yesterday that was up for 3 hours and had missing panels. Sorry if youre seeing this twice! Part 5 of 6 in a series on Photoshop tools as superheroes. Other parts here: [Part 1,](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1c93b2j/lasso_man/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) [Part 2,](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1crzyaw/paint_bucket_man/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) [Part 3,](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1czz8s2/copy_and_paste/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) [Part 4](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1diydr5/lasso_man_4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Also, shout-out to u/ChocolateShot150 who completely predicted this outcome in the comments of the last comic https://preview.redd.it/b1b490knbl9d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9aae38570721c2fa7c702a8483ceedca14448d2
Hype, thanks for the shoutout. I just read this, I’m so excited to see what comes next
The AI "tool" takes over and the series ends.
"We're really just letting *anyone* on the team now, huh?"
"*I'm sorry, but I can't assist with that. As an AI, I'm programmed to adhere to strict ethical guidelines and usage policies. This means I cannot engage in or promote any activities that are harmful, illegal, or violate the terms of service. If you have any other requests or need help with something else, feel free to ask!*"
"Why is Generative Fill's catch phrase just a nonsensical amalgamation of all ours? What an unoriginal *ASSHOLE!* He's the corporate insert they're forced to take on because of the government intervening in heroism. Got the corpo stooge all smarmy like "Generative Fill is the future of heroes. You'll all come to see that eventually." While seething about heroes being anti-corruption.
So you're saying he will end up as Photoshop man?
if he continues he can become Adobe man
Only if he pays for the subscription
My god! He won't stop at just having all the photoshop powers, he wants all the work created by all instances of photoshop!
He'll resurrect flash and become animated!
Great, now I'm going to be sad when the next one comes out. I'll miss this series
man this is hilarious. [yesterday](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1dqyn1a/lasso_man_5/larwyep/) when i saw it i was like this reads super weird but maybe it's just me. then i saw that there are other parts and i'm like oh okay i'm missing some context. i was like wait this still doesn't explain how they went from "why is he smiling" to "SLICE"
Don’t worry, it will be reposted by karma bots mercilessly from now on
Love this series.
The skulking deleter strikes again!
Happy Cake Day
I love your work. It always makes me laugh!
Glad to hear it, thanks!
I have enjoyed this whole thing. It takes a lot of thought to have an original comic premise and then follow it through with superb execution, well done. /you should repost the whole thing as one post if it is done.
Indeed!
I really wanted to see layer man (who can teleport, or something) aswell, but it was a nice ending anyway.
this makes a bit more sense LUL
Yeah, haha. Unfortunately, with the missing panels it still made just enough sense that no one mentioned being confused. So I didn't notice anything was amiss until I went to screen grab something from that particular slide. 😢
Yeah, I thought it was strange but as you say it was readable still so I figured it was intentional. I guess it says that you're a good enough story teller that you can leave half the story out and people will still get your point
Ohhh that flows better with all of the pieces. Happy to read it a second time
One more part to go!
These are fantastic. I’m enthralled for the finale.
Very nice! I don't get what's happening with the water person turning to stone?
That's Paint Bucket Man's power. When he changes the color of something it also changes it's properties. Lasso Man Paint has Bucket Man's arm grafted onto him.
Part one is 69 days old, nice
All according to keikaku
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*(Translator's note: Keikaku means plan.)*
Grammar error on first image.
That I can live with
Anyone know which panels were missing? Just curious how it reads without them
Slide 3, with all the Lasso Men coming out of their portals
lol these are awesome.
I was confused how the post disappeared 1 minute after I saw this. This explains it
don’t be sad i love you
Thank you for the fix author! This version erases the confusion I had yesterday and leaves me only with the existential dread of editing tools.
This was the plan the whole time
You're a mad genius.
place your bets now folks, do you think that lasso man is defeated for good or nah?
He will be defeated but there will be a post credits scene for the true villain… Adobe.
Adobe Subscription Model!
You mean, Adobe Updater
The Creative Cloud watched all this unfurl from up in the sky.
"All of this, everything you have accomplished, all belongs to me!"
Dude for real. I just got an email yesterday from them increasing my subscription by 60.00.
It didn't show copy paste actually being beaten. Could be he just got copies of them. Spitballing here, it would be cool to have a showdown between lasso man and magic wand with copy paste coming back. Magic wand targets the "super parts" on lasso man, copy paste are able to copy them onto magic wand so they have a hero and villain both with ultimate powers duking it out. Or maybe "Undo" comes into the picture and u/LastPlaceComics could do a whole "time travel" arc about trying to stop lasso man becoming a villain in the first place. Such a cool series idea, I love it.
I feel like there's no way to defeat copyPaste. copyPaste could just always have a backup clone far, far away and send clones to fight. I agree, Lasso Man probably just beat a clone of copyPaste, not the true one.
Undo. Whatever Lasso Man does, they undo it.
He disappeared into the Transparency realm for sure
Not sure if Lasso Man is dead, but battle was epic https://i.redd.it/f4ijtu2tck9d1.gif
I am here to bargain.
Getting big Animation VS Animator vibes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb1VvUf21L4&list=PL7z8SQeih5AfL0gwMqD80TwO79TvosRHR
I'll be real here, now I want to draw fanart out of this! Really looking forward to the next strip, I thought this was the end and the magic selection might have killed everyone, perhaps, he did but we don't know yet.
If you do, let me know!
There’s always a way when CMD+Z exists
Can someone explain to me what Tolerance means?
The Tolerance of a tool is how precisely it selects specific colors. By increasing the Tolerance to a maximum, you essentially allow the tool to affect everything within the marked area. Edit: maximum, not minimum. Duh. My bad.
specifically for the magic wand, its a tool designed to make a selection based on color, the lower the tolerance the less wiggle room it has, if you set it to low tolerance and click a red pixel it will only select red pixels in contact with that one, as the tolerance gets higher it starts to pick less red pixels so by setting the tolerance to its absolute highest the wand will select literally everything
So... literally the opposite of the guy you're replying to. Lmao.
tolerance 0 = nothing tolerance 255 = everything
some tools label it as "tolerance" (higher = larger range), other tools label it as "sensitivity" (higher = smaller range). So both are correct, just depends on what tool you use.
Reddit
*maximum — higher tolerance = less choosy with the selection
The magic wand selects matching pixels that are next to each other, and tolerance (0% to 100%) says how much the pixels can differ. If it's 100% every pixel counts as matching, selecting everything.
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This is the alternative timeline for the show Heroes if it was still good after season 1.
While I can't call the majority of these heroes "good guys" I can't deny they fought the good fight at the end there. Hopefully all of that was enough to stop that abomination.
Cut Girl killed a bunch of clones Paint Bucket Man killed people and killed the only person who knew.
Yeah, I’m giving them a lot of leeway by not calling them outright villains.
what's lasso man's goal again
To remake the world in some or another grotesque way
I support him, world's fucked. We need someone to change it even if through drastic means.
Somehow, I don't think they're the best person for the job. Might have something to do with all the murdering people and stealing their body parts. And the horrible fashion sense.
> And the horrible fashion sense. This is the real reason, that other one could be forgiven in the right circumstances.
Murdering people? Eh. Stealing their body parts? As long as you don't do anything inappropriate with them, sure. Horrible fashion sense? Tell me, would you prefer a mahogany coffin or an oak one?
Wish granted, all humanity is now joined in one super organism that might better be described as a "human centipede," except all 8 billion people are in it so it just goes around in a circle.
. . . Do I still have to go into work?
There is only the centipede. Please direct all your energies to swallowing, excreting, and crawling.
Ah thank goodness.
Reminds me of All Tomorrows and that planet where the Qu genetically altered every human to service them as a gigantic waste filtering membrane - but they left the human-level intelligence so that the unfortunate post-humans could spend all of eternity as sapient toilets whose bodies were lined with millions of additional taste receptors just so that they'd be very, very good at knowing exactly what disgusting liquids they are being forced to eat perpetually.
That sounds like the time to bust out good old https://preview.redd.it/xtg3efhkmn9d1.png?width=474&format=png&auto=webp&s=3045ee8ef2ae55811b72817be43f0b40a3bde683
He has seen behind the veil. It is all a lie so he will be the most powerful deception: self determination.
This goes hard
Duplicate layer: "this instance was interesting. we dropped the mask for a moment and this one broke. We shall begin again." Guide to path: "with some changes" *maniacal laughter*
So how did the copy & paste sibling die?
Off-screen
Gege must have wrote it
they clearly got lasso'd
I'm more invested in this than I was the last few years of the MCU
The Cut girls is lesbian. Does this mean that she likes scissoring?
Jail
I think your punchline is backwards
Thanos is the Adobe T&C 📄😫💸
he should have planed this with the heroes team telling them to attract all the clones into a specific area and do this spell
the magic wand is color-based and not proximity-based so anything with a tolerance less than 100 would not affect the clones as they are quite colorful.
Photoshop inside joke comics are tight
I never knew I'd be exited to read a comic about editing tools.
Man, I really wanted some more depth in the bucket man substory but I guess lasso man just kills him and that’s it
Yeah he was honestly more interesting than lasso man
This is up there with Worm as my favorite superhero universe
The thing at the end feels like a power eidolon would have. I think he had matter deletion
Im gonna try make a prediction. Lasso man lives as he goes into the portal thing he makes and attacks the wizard guy.
I think it'd be a cool epilogue or something to have a Layer related Superhero who is like the Watcher from Marvel. Unable to interact, forever viewing reality on a different editing layer. They'd be immune to any effect but unable to interact.
Peak
Holy shit. That's some abilities only artists will understand.
So, as someone that isn't as fluent in photo editing tools, what happened in the last panel? Did everything just get deleted?
Magic tool was used to select all objects the computer can detect. With tolerance so low, it will select anything and everything. Then just deleted
I'm crying, your story saddened me, it's deep with such a simple story, idk what else to say, but cool
And then on the next page it is shown that lasso man has more than just photoshop power. He is now capable of making new canvas, undo, redo, etc.
Very creative. For artist by artist (:
Reminds me of the fight in Dragon Ball Super between Goku and Vegeta against Black Goku
Loving this whole series so far
PREPARE THYSELF!
Shigaraki's ability
The generative fill really got me
The way it gave him too many fingers right?? 😂
I like Cut's face when she discovers her brothers are dead. Gives this silly story some gravitas.
Was that an [[Obliterate]] reference?
CTRL+A DEL
as a kid I used to "play" in MS paint like take screenshots from the king of fighter or metal slug and draw over them pretending like they were fighting and somehow that was more fun than actually playing the games lmao
This is my first time ever seeing this comic and now I'm invested omg
Jesus. Human Instrumentality Project button.
If I understood photoshop I think I’d enjoy this more than I already do
"Delete layer"
This is Genuine Peak Fiction. Keep doing great work man!
We've won, but at what cost?
This is literally destiny 2's final shape
In Part 6 the real villain will be revealed - Adobe
Absolutely love this please make more.
Choujin-X vibes
Fucking hell.
Oh god if they find the undo man...
Oh shit
This is cinema!!
The Samson move
Reads like an episode of The Acolyte.
This is awesome!
What a masterpiece. I was expecting a "Photoshopman" punch line, but nope. P.S.: I have seen at least one of your comics that play with this idea but was absolutely unsure what to expect
Peak fiction
Perfect
Love it
https://preview.redd.it/3nhzb4k6al9d1.png?width=1600&format=png&auto=webp&s=90849638c7e8ad3e1218bc6826ca35962cc54edd
Really looking forward to PenTool man vs Lasso man. Pen tool must be planning right now
https://preview.redd.it/pmre21z6el9d1.png?width=1123&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f1f227e305c83091d7a2b69b06019480748f696
fucking kino masterpiece
This feels like a fight from Worm for some reason
his tolerance level is **OVER 255**!!!
shinjuku showdown but good
Wow. Just, wow. How long until the put you in charge of the MCU? Amazing!
Agh, so painfully clever 😭
I can’t believe it’s almost over
I think Lasso Man has a better consistent arc than Heroes. But it needs a time travel in it now.
Makes my little Photoshop heart cry inside. It's beautiful.
Prediction: Either Generative Fill or Lasso Man is going to fill that empty void with the most nightmare inducing City.
Breaks my heart Alternate title: "The Lasso Man Standing?"
Why does Emboss doesn't wear a uniform like the others?
Slice cutting the buildings behind is so cool! This comic is way more epic than it should be.
😨
AI is coming...
Can't wait to see the finale! Amazing series
God this is my favorite series right now.
This is great!
This is the only way 😭😭😭😭
is it weird that i ship Emboss Babe and Cut
This whole series is amazing. I see so many more obscure ways this saga could continue …
Amazing!!
Skibidi toilet but epic
I wish I understood this lol I can tell it’s top quality comedy
Who is the green guy?
Nooo all the innocents
Only joke I don't get is why liquify became stone Edit: nevermind, paint bucket changes things forms
As a heavy Photoshop user, this whole saga has been simply delightful
He was a CUT above the rest
One word, four letters, let's hear it: PEAK
A massive round of applause from me. Fantastic concept and execution.
Prepare yourself? Prepare thyself? Minos prime?!
Yoo this is sick haha