Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #697465 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

Ennis and Dillon cement their reps.
Being a huge fan of the Preacher series, Punisher was the obvious next step. I was not dissapointed..just. The art work is quite frankly gorgeous. If you have read Preacher then the drawings are very familiar with expressionand action perfectly rendered. The colouring is out of this word (stand out being a the Punisher reflected in a sleazy morgue attendent's eyes)with machine vibration and speeding trucks digitally altered.
The writing is great yet seems a bit effortless. The Punisher has a collection of odd characters with their quirks and (sometimes) recognisable traits with the enemy, Ma Gnucci as a hybrid of Grandma and Herr Star - evil spliced with sadistic wit. The inclusion of Dare Devil and Castle's side stepping of Murdock's moral objections was great fun.

I enjoyed The Punisher Vol. 1 and Volumes 2 and 3 are on order. I hope that the stories take a slightly darker turn as the magic ingredient - realism/ believability - is missing. The killings are too comic. There is no sense of tragedy, which essentially is Frank Castle's life.

Later in the novel there is a rare copy of Punisher kills the Marvel Universe which has to be read to be believed. Punisher literally takes out every single superhero and villain you can think of - Spiderman, Hulk, X-Men, Dr. Doom etc. Great fun, worth the price of the book on its own.

Buy and enjoy.

To the point & punchy
For those people new to 'The Punisher' this is the perfect place to jump on, collecting the 12 issue maxi-series recently run by Marvel comics. This sees Frank Castle back to his old self, gone are the abysmal avenging angel days and back is the hell-raising vigalante we all know & love. Whats better is that its fell into the hands of Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon, the winning team behind 'Preacher', the epic run of comics that recently ended with issue 66 over at the Vertigo inprint at DC. The series runs like a John Woo film on steroids as Castle launches a one-man war on the local gangsters with sometimes hilariously violent results, a few select examples include a run in with piranahs, polar bears & suffocation via a michelin-man lookalike landing on top of you. As if he hasnt got enough on his hands Daredevil gets to take a shot at him with cool results & three other people around decide to take crime fighting into their own hands with ridiculously bad results. Ennis also manages to pose the serious question of just what punishment fits the crime though through these bungling Punisher wanna-bes. All in all this is a triumphant return for the mighty skull chested one and would come with the highest reccomendation.

My 1st punisher Graphic Novel
I can only say WOW! But I'll say more. Fantastic artwork, excellent stories and the "What If" story close to the end of the book. I see where the 'not so bad' 2004 punisher film got its side plots from. Gotta Go....