I would think placing the Punisher in a Prohibition / Great Depression-era crime drama would be a match made in pulp fiction heaven with a rat-a-tat Tommy Gun chaser. Well, the end result was just adequate. As noted by other reviewers there's a good twist with a villain's 'reveal,' and the main character's roaring rampage of revenge on a trio of assassins was entertaining in a squicky way.

Pretty damn good. This takes the Punisher and sets him firmly in gangsterland of the 1930s, and it works even better than you'd expect. The only minor complaint I had is maybe a little too much tried to be forced in, as you had versions of The Russian, Barracude, Jigsaw, and Detective Soap all the in story. That being said, they were still cool characters and it mostly worked. There was also a major twist that I didn't see coming that provided a pretty shocking moment. The art is great as well a...

NICE! Solid story, and i like the twist they put on Punisher as a character. Also with the mysterious woman. Not going to lie...i was concerned where the story was going in issue 4 at the zoo, it got strange lol. Made up for it with how beasty the fight was....No pun intended. 4 stars!

Fast, fun, good art. It was exactly as I wanted it to be. This noir reimagining of The Punisher reads like the MAX series if it were set in the 1930s. Some familiar Punisher villains show up. Violence ensues. Overall, I was highly entertained. It’s only four issues. There’s really not much more to say about it. I read this on MU, and it was a great way to spend 30 min. Anyone who loves Frank Castle will enjoy this.

Solid story, good well-coloured art. The story played out in a way that completely fit my impressions of the 20's and 30's, and made me believe this is how punished would've emerged and behaved in those times.Once in a while the dialog sounded a little Bugs Bunny tho.

It was good but surely could've been way much better.Doesn't really fit in the noir genre.It was just like a video game where you have to cross three mini villains to get to the main villian.The exception was the main boss really sucked and the last twist really didn't help either.

Even if Punisher Noir didn't reaches the highs of some others Noir takes on "calssic" characters, it still good, especially in view of Punisher fan. I actually is quite good story, nothing suprising, but quality work. I really enjoy Paul Azaceta's art an Filardi's colours, it all suits the Noir styling very well.

Punisher: Noir contains issues 1-4 and is part of a Marvel Noir special series.The standard origin story for the Punisher is that he comes home from war, has severe PTSD, sees his family murdered, and goes nuts vigilante style.Punisher Noir has his dad come home from war, be fed up with the mob and teach him about street justice. Then pops is murdered and Punisher is all grown up to take his revenge.The book is set in 1918 or so and the mafia runs the streets. Frank Castle Sr is a shop owner who...

An Ok story it is. Punisher it is not. And once again injecting Hitler as a boogeyman into these is unwarranted. Seeing as how they ethnicized Frank Castle into Castelione, the smallest spark of creativity would have led to the use of Mussolini, but alas.

Interesting take on The Punisher; re-set between 1918 and 1935. Several nasty pieces of work get their just desserts.

This is a unique take on Punisher in the years between WWI and WWII. The artwork and 1930’s era crime, as well as the portrayal of Punisher and some of his classic antagonists, are fun to look at but I feel like there was a lot of story that could have been told but wasn’t.

New York, 1920s, an a WW1 vet Frank Castelione Snr runs a grocery store with his young son Frank Jnr while meting out justice in the night time against the mobsters that threaten to overrun the city. Unfortunately after an encounter with two vicious assassins, Barracuda and Jigsaw, Frank Jnr is killed. Years later mobsters are being taken out by a masked vigilante. But will the Punisher find vengeance on his father’s killers and become the hero for the innocent his father wanted to be?Like DC’s

It’s not great. It’s not bad. It’s Punisher: Noir!Sure enough the title does indeed tell the story. With nods and generally well-done replications of the film noir style, a tale grimy with revanchism and post-great war grief spools forth from its roots. Laid down in the “War to End all Wars,” Frank Castle’s daddy comes home from the front to run a shop in this alternate take on the Punisher mythos.When protection money payments are refused, the local don calls for the execution of this one-man r...

Ah.. wanted to like this but... could have been a lot better with the whole vibe and setting. It was just ok. Won't hurt if you don't read it.Nice artwork, and ok/meh story.. other than that, too predictable and nothing special.

I love Punisher. I love noir. That's why I'm disappointed in this series and the ratings. The back story was weak. His father teaches him to be a gun toting vigilante? Like Dexter?? But he's upset the kid joins a group of juvenile delinquent street kids??? Blahh. There's some confusing artwork of young Frank that is equally distorted and confusing. He looks like a demented old man puppet in a few cells. Other than a couple cool shots of The Russian and Jigsaw, it's a total buzz kill.

Not really punishing.

This has to be one of the better Marvel Noirs. To bad they didn't do anymore.

As expected, this is one of the more decent Marvel Noir titles, featuring some of the better art in the series. How can you go wrong with a Great Depression-era Punisher? Much like the Iron Man arc, however, this is more pulp than noir. The work based around these reimagined concepts hasn't been exceptional by any means, but they're fun ideas for the most part, and the Punisher delivers on that front. I just wish it could have been at least one or two issues longer, so that the plot could have a...

Meh. Didn't enjoy this at all.

There are some sniffy reviews of this which I read and respect but I wonder if the true fans of the comic engaged less with this less than people like me who know nothing of the history or canon. Almost nothing.I enjoyed this enormously. Its beginning to look like the ‘Noir’ run of takes on the characters were more than a little awesome. Spiderman was great, both of the stories and this one is great as well. It has much more of a gangster feel to it and because the action is weapons based there