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Sometimes it seems that they don't care about the characters, this series is going to be canceled and anything goes.
Last edited by Bionder; 08-14-2014 at 01:13 AM.
Nothing wrong with this issue to me, they went out of their way to show he did a lot of research before actually even trying to approach the supernatural characters. He talked with the best sorcerer in the world then went to the best monster hunter in the world, then he finally confronted Zadkiel and the Ghost Rider. He wasn't just winging it he was acting based on what he had discovered, reconnaissance and execution: that's the The Punisher.
Of Course he didn't kill Zadkiel, just bested him once, something Hawkeye would do. Just a little more muscle involved here.
Painfully accurate
Probably my worst case scenario right here.
And you didn't find that after all that careful planning went to ****, what did him in was somehow resisting the penance stare and then overpowering a character far beyond his weight class and then choking the spirit out of him with his own chain that he can control mentally around a neck he doesn't have?
Quoted for emphasis. I don't think any of us have an issue with Frank doing his homework (which probably the best part of this book), we have an issue with how easily he took out Zadkiel, and how ridiculously he took out Ghost Rider.
As discussed before, while it might have been a little silly, I wouldn't have had quite as much of a problem if Frank had stumbled upon the chant Leader used in an earlier issue, or he saved some badass spiritual weapon for last that subdued the spirit or something. But using his own chains to seperate Blaze and the Spirit of Vengeance? Please.
I don't know if you're more familiar with Punisher or just the other members of the team, and I really don't mean to sound dickish when I say that, but in the almost 50 years since his introduction Punisher has been shown to have a very high resistance to spells and incantations, now I'm not talking about brainwashing or chemical imbalances that make him do evil I'm talking about magic. Man-thing not burning his skin, his scowling in the face of Dr Strange powered aliens from another galaxy, now the penance stare, Frank Castle has been shown over a long time to be extraordinarily, but not like a mutant mind you. Even Daredevil says in the midst of chaos his heartbeat never raises past normal.
Frank Castle knows Daimon Hellstrom, he's literally died and served God as a gun toting angel, he's been killed and brought back is a cyborg Frankenstein monster to fight even worsemonsters, the weird ain't nothing new to Frank and Frank can handle it. You think Zadkiel just let's any goof in his door?
Last edited by Fear Embodied; 08-14-2014 at 11:41 AM.
I can't understand why artists make the artwork look sketchy... Barberi's did a wonderful job in previous issues.
I'm decently familiar with Punisher but didn't really consider his history against magic. Though the Penance Stare has worked on him before so I don't understand why it wouldn't work now. And hellfire would still burn regardless. The reasoning given in the book didn't make sense to me and seemed made up to progress the plot. Then again, inconsistency is Marvel's specialty.
He used the penance stare after Frank thought he had killed Nick Fury for good. Now even after all of the intentions and hate, when Nick was dead in the dirt I'm sure that weighed on Frank. In the years since that story we've been shown and told Frank and Nick have known and worked with each other for a long time. When the Penance Stare 'worked on him' he was literally in a psychotic state and getting even worse, he thought he killed some innocents in the park, he was brainwashed into thinking an American Hero killed his family. He literally wasn't in his right mind. In the almost 20 years years Frank has evolved. I like him looking Ghostrider straight in his fiery eyes and saying I have no regrets.
Last edited by Fear Embodied; 08-14-2014 at 12:01 PM.
In the Thunderbolts annual he was the only one who resisted the magic from the Fairy King.
Last edited by Fear Embodied; 08-14-2014 at 12:30 PM.