All this year I'll be storytiming Punisher comics, with most of the focus being on pre-Ennis material, but with a few Ennis era stories at some point, and maybe some post-Ennis era stuff possibly maybe. Expect at least one story per week.
Up to this point most of what we've read so far has been from the Mike Baron run on the character. And his run HAS been pretty fucking awesome, for the most part. But we're up to about late 1991 now, or approximately where the Chuck Dixon era began. And if you thought Baron's run was cool, Dixon's is some next level shit. Legitimately THE best run on The Punisher outside of Ennis' high points, and I'd argue THE single most consistent run on the character (let's be real, Ennis' dips in quality around the middle [during the Marvel Knights ongoing], whereas Dixon's is just hard-hitting throughout) with some of the best scripting/narrations, characterization(s), and stories ever done on the character to this day.
But before Dixon's runs on The Punisher War Journal and (his even more famous run on) The Punisher War Zone (and then later on his run on the main book, The Punisher) he had been the fill-in writer during the later Baron era of The Punisher, and before THAT he had started out on the character with a "graphic novel" entitled "Kingdom Gone", #64 out of Marvel's "Marvel Graphic Novel" series from the 80s through early 90s.
There's not really much else to say about it except that it's awesome, so let's read this bitch.
PUNISHER KINGDOM GONE
STORYTIME
I would also HIGHLY recommend reading The 'Nam over here: It features an appearance from Frank Castle in his Vietnam War days.
>Ennis' dips in quality around the middle [during the Marvel Knights ongoing
I love that run. Where he teams up with Wolverine to fight a midgit crime gang or The Russian comes back with huge boobs and is a card carrying Spider-man fan club member. It's Ennis' juvenile humor at it's best
I like it more than some of the MAX stuff
Cameron Hall
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Zachary Diaz
There were some issues I enjoyed, but overall... eh...
Jonathan Morris
I'll add that it wasn't outright BAD though.
Benjamin Barnes
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Jeremiah Diaz
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Joseph Cooper
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Hudson Brooks
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Xavier Scott
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Adam Nguyen
Bump
Wyatt Sullivan
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Camden Roberts
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Easton Baker
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Eli Bailey
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Daniel Sanders
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Dominic Garcia
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Connor Ross
I always thought all the silly bits in Marvel Knights were inappropriate for such a grim character as Punisher and would be better suited for a more outrageous character like Deadpool or someone, but maybe it's just because I read his MAX stuff before MK so that's what I was used to.
Connor Baker
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Austin Morales
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Elijah Johnson
I think Welcome Back, Frank proved that black humor can work on the character at times.
Nathan Brown
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Michael Wright
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Cooper Sullivan
>if only I'd died with them
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Brandon Sanchez
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Gabriel Cook
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Jonathan Edwards
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Robert Ross
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John Watson
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Julian Hernandez
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Brandon Martin
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Nathaniel Clark
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Justin White
Bump
Easton Morris
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Alexander Baker
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Brandon Morales
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William Hall
Gotta admit I agree with Frank here, hate it when people look up to Jordan Belfort types.
Mason Rodriguez
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Adrian Carter
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Chase Mitchell
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Lucas Perez
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Tyler Green
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Cooper Taylor
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Kayden Ortiz
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Henry Myers
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Kayden Green
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Christopher Thomas
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Adam Perry
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Justin Smith
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Cameron Parker
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Justin Foster
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Nicholas Brooks
And that's that.
Dylan Thomas
Sounds like the set up for a good stealth video game.
Austin Lee
I googled what "cabrone" meant and urban dictionary says it means "cuck" lmao.
Dominic Roberts
Bump
Ryan Cruz
The look on Frank's face, Christ.
Samuel Hill
That's a pretty hardcore way to open an issue.
Ayden Harris
RIP Jorge...
Bentley Ramirez
READING BUMP
Thanks user! Never enough Frank on this board!
Dylan Evans
I was about to say "well this won't end well", and... well there you have it.
Kayden Campbell
This is a pretty intense page. Dixon could write some pretty intense character moments in The Punisher in general.
Hudson Martinez
He's right about the "Robin Hood" part.
The rest, no.
Asher Price
uh oh...
why do I expect that this is gonna get messy?
Angel Cooper
Well this is starting to get complicated/interesting.
Jack Barnes
That seems unnecessarily risky.
Bentley Brown
>this page
That is some slick as fuck storytelling.
Aiden Cook
That is some REALLY fucking nice art.
Samuel Thompson
OH SHI-
William Allen
This is about to get fucking messy.
Aaron Price
And there we go.
Brayden Allen
This reminds me of Swamp Thing going after that scientist guy in The Anatomy Lesson.
Eli Thompson
>that guy made it
glad to see that, I was rooting for the guy
Bentley Taylor
well that sucks
Kayden Moore
oh boy
Easton Lopez
>this was $17 in 1990 money
wow that is a fucking rip-off by any standard
that's gotta be at least $35 now, probably more
Parker Martinez
That's a stylish ending.
Cooper Allen
No problem.
Adrian Barnes
Bump. Thanks OP
Benjamin Ramirez
Thanks for this user. Did I miss the old Wolverine v Punisher arc?
