Frank Castle: Punisher Appreciation 2018

[Bionder]

Doubt it... This is the same books that are still on sale, there are one or two volumes hard to find but most of the people have already collected. Even the HC editions that was released two or three years ago. But let's hope you're right!

[batnbreakfast]

Just some thoughts on Frank. What makes his tales interesting to me.
He is not one dimensional or a guy who enjoys killing. His only purpose or meaning in life is killing (really bad people)
by his own rational decision. He probably has a trauma and is insane but only his success and the long years in comics make him a serial killer.
As a soldier abroad he was a weapon pointed at others and returning home he just never stopped fighting what is a war to him. PunisherMAX
is a really different run about a non prime age non hero Marvel character. Just fantastic. Depressing, yes. Brutal, yes. But if the writing were bad
it would still have fantastic art. Frank is what Batman's war on crime would have been if Bruce made the decision to become a vigilante as an adult
using real world tools for his war. If nothing else I enjoy him as a different take on Batman.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Thank you very much for a decade of marvelous Punisher stories! http://comicwow.com/blogs/1/1684/gar...ot-hate-superh

[Dog]

Doubt it... This is the same books that are still on sale, there are one or two volumes hard to find but most of the people have already collected. Even the HC editions that was released two or three years ago. But let's hope you're right!

I'm buying it. Didn't want to pay the resale prices, which wouldn't be so high if the demand weren't there.

[UltimateTy]

I'm excited for the possibility of Frank getting his own show.

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http://hexdimension.com/2014/06/feature-silver-age-spotlight-john-romita-sr/
http://www.twomorrows.com/comicbooka.../06romita.html

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Daredevil #183, 1982 - A dangerous drug makes its away into an elementary school, killing students in its wake.
Stylistically, it looks like Frank Miller completed this story much earlier than the publication date. Drawings on pages 11,13-18 show a complexity similar to his earliest works. The remaining pages appear to be new, including a tragic but stunning sequence on the title page.

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Miller also brings the Punisher into the fray, his facial expression vaguely reminiscent of Joe Kubert's style

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Amazing Spider-man v1 annual #15, 1981 - When a fraudulent swami develops a deadly toxin, Doctor Octopus seizes it to threaten five million citizens of New York City. Spider-man and the Punisher both intervene to prevent the disaster. Despite the serious theme, there are lighter moments throughout the story.
Frank Miller handles the various moods deftly, drawing and designing pages with superlative skill. Front page editions of the Daily Bugle are interspersed throughout, cleverly used as chapter dividers.

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Miller's cover idea is both clever and amusing (Doc Ock reads the morning paper),
but it's the interior pages that feature some of his most brilliant work.

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Captain America v1 #241, 1980 - Cap crosses paths with the Punisher, intent on making his kills. Except for the rooftops, Frank Miller's sparse background brings an odd serenity to the scene.
Note the Punisher's sure-footed stance suggests his advantage while the hero is off-balance. The image benefits from simple yet effective layout, but also from Bob McCleod's well-grounded inking.

[UltimateTy]

Axel Alonso art from Punisher #1 on twitter

[Kuwagaton]

How long I have waited for that tease.

Also, the last time I came across Jake Gallows was 20 years ago. How was that Pat Mills comic? Is anybody checking out the character in the new Contest of Champions?

[Tony Stark]

Miller's cover idea is both clever and amusing (Doc Ock reads the morning paper),
but it's the interior pages that feature some of his most brilliant work.

I loved when Punisher backflips and shoots the web shooters off of Peter's wrist. Frank is an amazing badass.

[Dog]

Axel Alonso art from Punisher #1 on twitter

To be clear, it's Steve Dillon's art that Alonso tweeted. And I'm pleasantly not horrified.