Worth reading just for THE Punisher artist extraordinaire, Steve Dillon. He makes even the worst Punisher story worth reading. Unfortunately, this is his last run as he died while drawing volume 2. As far as the story goes, this is Becky Cloonan doing her best Garth Ennis impression. You've got all the blood and gore, the kooky bad guys, in this case a bunch of rednecks, and your homicidal maniac, a dude named Face because he cuts off people's faces. It's pretty much your standard checklist for

Becky Cloonan writes a decidedly okay Punisher story. Frank is on the trail of drug dealers, clashing with the DEA along the way. It’s predictable and the side characters don’t stand out at all. There are some good moments though, and I was pleasantly surprised how brutal the action was for a non-MAX title. Plus, Steve Dillon drawing the Punisher is always welcome, even if Frank is only de-aged to match the Netflix show.

Not bad, but nothing very original, either. Cloonan does a pretty good Garth Ennis impersonation, and Steve Dillon does a pretty good Steve Dillon, too (it is sad that he died while drawing this, but it isn't his best work by a longshot)...

Frank gonna Frank.RIP Steve Dillon, truly a loss to comic art.

After reading today how some dumbass cops have been misappropriating the Punisher logo, I thought I’d dig into some new comics and see what Frank Castle has been up to lately.And, surprise, surprise, what he’s been up to is the same old thing that he’s been doing ever since he showed up in the pages of Spider-Man back in the 1970s, murdering people, mostly bad guys, in a symphony of bloodshed and violence.So listen, cops...I know I presume a lot here by telling you what to do, but the Punisher l...

Adequate Frank Castle vs. criminals story-line, in which he takes on a vicious and disturbing drug manufacturing / distributing organization (their newest product? 'EMC,' which crazily enhances the strength of the common mook who drops a dose) in the northeast U.S. It may be a case of comparing apples to oranges, but On the Road (other than its good artwork) seems sort of pedestrian on the heels of reading the explicit and superior Punisher Max: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1.

Great update to Punisher for modern timesIn this tale, Frank Castle is a veteran of Iraq, not Vietnam - so the timeline is a bit easier to understand. This one is more about the tale itself than Frank Castle, but still - what a tale. Be warned though, like many Frank Castle tales, this one holds its own unique brand of terror.Still - great update to the Punisher series!

A new drug is about to hit the market turning its users into killing machines – time for Frank Castle to shoot alla the mobsters trying to sell it! Becky Cloonan teams up with Frank’s greatest artist, Steve Dillon, for her first Punisher story, On the Road. Dammit Cloontang, why’d it have to suck!? Frank Castle vs The Mob is the template Punisher story. It’s been done I don’t know how many times over the decades, but my issue isn’t originality, it’s execution. It’s possible to do entertaining ve...

A Punisher outing much like any other as a promising start peters out into a string of generic shoot-outs and a ludicrous ending. It's a shame the powers that be seem to be making Steve Dillon alter his usual portrayal of Frank Castle to be younger and fuzzy-headed in order to look more like the guy on the Netflix series. And no more 'Nam, I guess.

Poor Steve Dillon died working on this, so his last work was Punisher. Fitting, and Cloonan provides an OK story, with a long lost "colleague" of Frank's.Some scenes were put right into the Netflix show, and that was cool. But the show is way better than this.Decent, but not essential.

Ah, man, it was hard reading this after the death of the artist, the great Steve Dillon. I've been a fan of Dillon's work since his early days on 2000AD and his loss from the comicbook world hit me hard.In the light of that, I wish I could say I enjoyed this story more. It's great having Steve back on the Punisher for one last run but Becky Cloonan's take on Frank just didn't click for me. She went the whole 'Frank-as-almost-mythical-force-of-nature' route, which has been done before, but so muc...

Frank Castle! Good story, great artwork and I'm stupid for not reading it earlier. Cloonan is great and I love Dillon ever since Preacher, so yeah! I liked it.Frank is hunting down a man named Face and well, actually no, he's hunting down an organisation that makes a drug called EMC that makes you super fucked up crazy and "enhances your strength" and well in reality it just makes you more pain tolerable, and not think about your moves and whatnot. Kinda like no fear, fight instead of flight kin...

The Punisher is my favorite comic character, so I have to admit to some bias.This series reminded me of the Ennis/Dillon run (RIP Steve Dillon, I'm still in shock about that) which is a huge plus as those stories are classics. The story wasn't exactly ground breaking, but it was the same gritty action I expect from a Punisher story. Overall I like this series and I'm curious to see where it goes next.

Holy &@#$ there's so much dialogue censorship in this book, guys having their faces ripped off, fine... shots to the eye socket, sure... a brick to the face, entertaining... child abuse and drug use, why not... cursing? "Oh HELL NO!! We don't allow that in our comic books". Just stop being hypocrites and target the book for adults, you already have a parental advisory in the book's cover, what else do you need?

Fans of the older, 80-90s era Punisher comics will like this more. It's closer to the brutal edge that the Max series has. I was not a big fan of the one volume I read by Ennis. It made me feel sick to my stomach, honestly. This doesn't have that same level of violence, but it feels really sadistic. The Punisher is a bit more likable here than in that series. I use the term 'likable' lightly. He's not the emotionless sociopathic killer in evidence in the movie "Punisher: War Zone, which seems to...

I think this run may be Steve Dillon's last work, and on one level at least he went out on one of the protagonists with whom he was most associated - I'd say Frank is right behind Constantine and Jesse as the face I picture when I picture Steve Dillon art. I mean, imagine if his career had ended with one of those colossal wastes of his time and talent like the years he wasted on Wolverine Origins! But still, for all the advances recent years have seen in terms of making creator-owned work more p...

"A rival drug interest?""No. This was the work of one man.""ONE guy? No way."I'm going to hand it to Becky Cloonan, she at least attempts to add characters and a fleshy plot to The Punisher. This arc deals with a super-soldier serum (typical), a psycho who likes cutting off people's faces and mounting them on the wall (wonder if Birds of Prey ripped this off from here? Or is the idea so old it's impossible to rip off?), and a hard female cop who is smart and out to get the bad guys at any cost.T...

There must be a "Garth Ennis' how-to" related to Punisher stories out there and obviously Becky Cloonan got a copy.Not to say it's a bad book, mind you. There's gore and ultra-violence, guns, a pure psycho, blades, a hard-ass DEA bitch, a wily former marine, hillbillies, bazookas... what's not to like?But in the end, as hard as she tries to impersonate Ennis, Becky Cloonan doesn't go further than the how-to guidelines. So it's totally decent, in a pure fan service way. Hardcore Punisher fans cer...

I was expecting a bit more originality from Becky cloonan . Felt like I was reading Garth Ennis punisher's run. Never been a fan of Dillon art . The story is simple and not very engaging unfortunately.I think I'm over the punisher'd character, i was over it a long time ago but I wanted to give Cloonan a chance. Maybe I was expecting too much.

The artwork by Steve Dillon is 5 stars, but the story is just ok. It's not bad, but probably this one is just for Punisher fans.