For those of you like me who have been fans of Victor Von Doom for his bombastic speech patterns and strangely niche iron fist, this will ring very true to what you know and love. The beauty, however, is that Cantwell has taken Doom's oddities, sternness, and arrogance and turned it into something much more human than you'd expect.

This was a great transitional issue that provided a titillating setup for what we're about to see for the next few weeks.

It's all coming together and all of the confusion is very worth it.

Worth a shot, but not necessarily fulfilling. It's certainly fun, pretty, and quirky, but those qualities alone do not a fantastic comic make.

Despite my love for a more nostalgically camp and absurd version of the Punisher, the issue is just vague enough on what it's intentions are that "silly" turns into "uninspired" really quickly and ultimately begs the question of if War of the Realms material really needs this kind of continuation at all.