We're shooting for another Marvel Previews Premiere Spotlight for the upcoming episode skip week.....it's Previews week, gang!
Looking forward to that!
Hey, an episode came up...and on my birthday to boot. Well..."birthday". I am a leap baby, so that means I have to have a few "skip" birthdays, but I am celebrating today and this episode was a nice addition to some of the errands I had to run.
Anyhoo, the Punisher talk made the stories sound like a lot of good, old fashioned, "kill 'em all and let God sort it out" fun. The Punisher is my fourth favorite Marvel character and I really dug the first two arcs of the Ennis MAX comic. I thought that while his Marvel Knight stuff was entertaining it tripped into almost a parody of the character once too often. The MAX stuff was just what I wanted from the character. I had planned to catch up on the Ennis run in trade, since that is so easy to do, and it looks like I need to add these to the want list as well.
I really liked your analysis of the four different type of Punisher stories, Steve. I also liked your comparison to
Three's Company mainly because I spent far too many afternoon watching re-runs of the show as a kid. The thought of replacing Jack with Frank in the show crossed my mind and hilarity ensued in my head as Frank is forced to kill the Ropers when it turns out that they are part of an international drug cartel with the ultimate bad guy being Mr. Furley. Jan serves as his sidekick and Frank is forced to fight Chrissy, Cindy and Terri in an epic issue long battle. The final battle ends with Frank walking off into the sunset, heading back to New York City and getting involved in a slave trading plot with the cast of
Taxi.
But I digress.
You hit the nail on the head about the character and the four plots you can put him through. To me when Frank has a monthly ongoing it always ends up feeling repetitive, which is why I will be reading these in trade instead of following the title. Once every six months I can get a good Punisher story and not get burned out on the character.
More stuff to pile on the "to buy" list. I need to stop listening to this show. It's costing me money.
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