All this year I'll be storytiming Punisher comics. Most of them will be from the pre-Ennis era, but there'll be a few from the Ennis era as well. Expect at least 1 storytime per week.
Over the last... month or two? I think? However long it's been exactly, we've been reading the aftermath of the "Suicide Run" "event" that ran in the various Punisher comics in the early 90s.
Over this span we've read about the fates of Lynn Michaels and Payback, the implosion of The Punisher's partnership with Microchip, and some random other adventures.
At one point during while Lynn Michaels was making largely failed attempts at fighting crime, The Punisher took a detour of sorts and headed to the middle east to deal with Saracen. This all took place outside of the ongoings in a "graphic novel" called "Empty Quarter", which we'll be reading right here and now.
Saracen, if you need a reminder, is a dude that Marvel in the early 90s was clearly trying to make The Punisher's "next big long-running villain" alongside Jigsaw. He debuted in the Mike Baron run and was pushed pretty hard for a very brief period of time before basically disappearing and not being heard from again for years. During his initial run in the comics Marvel even had him kill off The Punisher's Sicilian uncle (or whatever the fuck the guy's relation was) to build up the vendetta they had.
Empty Quarter also sees the return of Mike Baron to The Punisher comics. I think this might have also been Mike Baron's last Punisher story. Though I'm too lazy to look that up.
BTW, some of these pages are double-spreads that were scanned separately. Normally I'd try to join the pages in that kind of situation, but they really look like shit when joined and they're still readable separately, so I'm just gonna leave them separate for this storytime.
Noah Brooks
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Charles Gutierrez
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Daniel Clark
Kind of liked Saracen. Be interesting of he showed up in the Netflix show, though I doubt that would happen (even though they surprisingly used that corrupt senator who he worked for in one story).
>I think this might have also been Mike Baron's last Punisher story.
Yep. In fact, looks like it was also one of the last things that he did for Marvel.
Angel Davis
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Nolan Perry
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Jackson Sullivan
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Matthew Baker
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Ryder Moore
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Andrew Nguyen
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James Watson
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Mason Carter
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Adam Morgan
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Aiden Peterson
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Connor Garcia
>Cold Steel
Nothin' personal.
Because it'll never come out.
Lincoln Reyes
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Evan Ortiz
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Lucas Jones
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Thomas Wilson
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Hudson Torres
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Robert Wood
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Owen Green
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Brayden Evans
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Jose Gray
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Christian Edwards
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Nolan Ward
>The Jackal. Looks nothing like the first one I dealt with.
Heh.
Leo Garcia
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Aaron Morales
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Jeremiah Ross
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Christopher Bell
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Juan King
What other classes would be taught at Terror School?
Baron's thing with the animal rights people was hilarious, though I suppose it's nice to see far-left terrorism get representation (even if is just eco-warriors, basically the go-to choice because I guess it isn't especially controversial or something).
Dominic Young
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Mason Evans
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Liam Rodriguez
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Joshua Peterson
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Jordan Mitchell
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Jayden Cruz
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Joshua Cooper
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Hunter Cox
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Dylan Ramirez
>Serbian Nationalists do not ride camels in the desert. This was a Mossad agent.
Why did I laugh so hard.
Tyler Ross
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Gabriel Allen
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Benjamin Walker
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Austin Young
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Lincoln Jones
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Xavier Cox
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Jaxson Scott
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Alexander Jackson
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Aaron Walker
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Ayden Russell
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William Gray
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Jaxon Fisher
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Charles Roberts
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Gabriel Rivera
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Matthew Thompson
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Hunter Robinson
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Kevin Powell
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Zachary Cooper
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John Butler
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Jacob Richardson
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Asher Baker
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Josiah Jenkins
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Carter Reed
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Eli Scott
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John Long
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Andrew Howard
F
David Morales
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Camden Collins
And that's that.
Elijah Lee
DON'T GO ANYWHERE!
I'VE GOT A FEW HOURS FREE, SO WE'RE GONNA READ ANOTHER STORY IN A FEW MINUTES!
Daniel Young
>Lady, goat, or little boy? >Or all three?
Landon Diaz
NEW THREAD HERE:
Isaac Young
Thanks for the storytime
Dylan Perry
No problem.
Asher Lewis
Why is the board moving so fucking fast all of a sudden?
