Really really good. Will certainly continue with this.

So the Punisher is a bad ass in the normal marvel universe. In this one, people can swear, talk about sex and be mutilated beyond recognition. I just reread this book and had the same impression I did before. It just isn't interesting. Ennis does well with his usual violence and the art is typical of more lifelike drawings with thick outlines and shading. In general, Frank Castle is cool, but the stories he is involved in here just don't thrill me. Unless you're a hardcore Punisher fan, skip thi...

When Garth Ennis first started writing the Punisher, he did it with some humor. I think the idea of writing about such a violent character in a PG environment seemed a little silly to him, and it came through in the storylines. Not that it wasn't good, but it just had a bit of a different vibe to it.However, when he started writing the MAX series, which is for mature readers, he changed his tone. This is dark, violent and gritty, just the way the character should be written! The Punisher doesn't...

Damn, Garth Ennis was born to write the Punisher.This is what the MAX imprint is there for, to take a comic like this and make it extreme, like it would be, with no worries about censorship.This consists of the first 2 stories: In the Beginning (1-6) and Kitchen Irish (7-12).In the Beginning concerns the origins in some ways of the Punisher, and shows Frank taking out a large chunk of Mafioso family, and the chaos that results...lots of bodies, lots of mayhem and carnage, and we see just how bad...

So as you folks know, I’m fairly new to the comic book world, but I’ve been going in hard. I recently picked up and devoured Punisher Max Vol 1. I enjoyed this series a lot, so much so that I’m going to read all the other volumes.I’ve always enjoyed The Punisher and even when Dolph Lundgren butchered the character back in the 80s, I still watched the movie. That being said, the current series on Netflix is freaking amazing! At first I had my doubts about Jon Bernthal in this role, I knew him as

Garth Ennis reinvigorated the Punisher character with his Marvel Knights series, bringing him back to his 70s action movie roots after a brief stint as an angel (don’t ask). The MAX series, though? Well, the MAX series kicks the Knights run’s ass.In the first arc collected here, Frank is betrayed by a once trusted ally. In the second, he goes toe to toe with a gang of Irish thugs.The juvenile humor that populated the Knights series is drastically toned down. Punisher is now a grizzled vet of Vie...

I usually don`t read MARVEL comics, not because I have something against them it`s just how it is. This one won`t change it, I picked up the Punisher comic only because of the TV show. I heard a lot about how Garth Ennis` run on the Punisher is one of the best on the character if not the definitive version of it. Because I never read any other stories about Frank Castle I can`t say anything about whether or not this opinion is true. I can say for sure that its first volume is dark. Almost misera...

The PUNISHER is one of my favorites from comicdom. Who else could EVER get away with shooting WOLVERINE in the marble sack like this…? I like that Frank Castle is more willing to “fight fire with napalm” in dealing with the scum of the criminal underworld. So when Garth Ennis, writer god of the all things comic, took over the title and created the Definitive Punisher character, I was brimming with happy. His The Punisher: Born was the best origin story since the Book of Genesis and is among

I really regret reading this. It was stomach-churningly violent and full of visual imagery I wish I hadn't seen. I definitely had a sick feeling in my stomach with the over the top violence. Not that most of the people who met bad ends weren't bad guys, but I'm not a big fan of that kind of gratuitous violence, which is why I usually avoid Tarantino and Verhoeven movies, not to mention most modern horror movies.I won't say that Ennis doesn't get The Punisher. He probably does. I just don't like

This was really disappointing. Garth Ennis writing The Punisher for Marvel's MAX imprint (the "mature readers"--a.k.a. boobs and blood--line) seems like a match made in heaven. Unfortunately, freed from the restriction of not being able to use curse words or show heads blowing up, Ennis came up with two six-issue story arcs that were nothing but curse words and heads blowing up. And when I say "nothing but," I mean literally, "nothing but." Sure, it's fun for a few pages, but after the thrill of...

This is the Punisher. He's a killing machine whose only purpose in life is to take it away. In the first couple of pages he's already wasting bad guys. Heads are blowing apart in detail. Guts are flinging through the air like confetti. God bless him.I don't want some sissy rendition like the first Marvel movie (not the 80's one which is cool). Under no circumstances should the Punisher ever talk about his feeling. First off, the man has none whatsoever. This collection portrayed him truthfully a...

Too Damn Much. With each of two storylines containing severed genitals and women who freely speak in the most vulgar terms about their sexual preferences and/or history of molestation (and speak of little else) as well as constant explicit violence, this volume leaves a bit of an unpleasant aftertaste. It is almost as if Garth Ennis, rather than being told that he was free to use more "adult" language and to include more graphic violence, was told instead that he was REQUIRED to use more "adult"...

After seeing the Punisher appear in the Daredevil TV Show, I was intrigued by this character and wanted to learn more about him. It was interesting to see his philosophy of straight up murdering bad people (gang members, murderers, thieves, etc.) versus Daredevil's desire to bring them to justice through the legal system.I was hoping to see more of this juxtaposition of different beliefs in the actual comic book series. Instead, all I saw was ultraviolence as the Punisher killed anyone that was

This was so explosive and action packed. We have a 4 issue beginning in Vietnam, sort of a backstory to Franks start. We then get a story involving the Mob and a second involving the Irish. The characters in this are what sets it apart. Loved it

The more Ennis I read, the less I like him. Though he seems to understand the Punisher, he fills the landscape of the story with a lot of garbage. This book is a painting of a landfill.It's funny how in comics we use that term: understand. When a new writer takes a character in a new direction that has them making moves and decisions that are outside of their character we say that writer "doesn't understand" the character. When the character exists in an established universe (in this case the Ma...

We are following main protagonist, Frank Castle, as he fights for USA in Vietnam War where he takes justice in his hands from time to time. With his full unit slaughtered he is transported back home but war has made scars in him that won't heal. With his wife and kid killed by mafia he decided to take justice in his hands but in a weird unjust way. A mafia member or a civilian, it is no different to him if the person stands in his way. One day in New York he gets caught in an attack between diff...

this is a great read about Frank Castle fighting the mob & dealing with the government as usual very action packed. the second half features less punisher & more about rival gangs fighting over a hidden treasure witch I found a lot more intertaining with plot twist that made the second story less predictable

This is my second time reading it and I still enjoy it a lot. Ennis is the perfect writer for Punisher. Not overly sentimental or stories about "what makes him tick"? Just good solid driven adventures that give a bit of character development without ruining who the Punisher is - an unbreakable man driven to take down crime. In this volume you get 2 6-issue series. The art in both of them is phenomenal. The first arc involves a black-ops group trying to recruit Frank Castle (Punisher) to fight th...