Matt Horak's art continues to keep his own quality, I get the feeling the more he would've worked on this issue the better he would become. Read Full Review

Miss Cloonan good luck and do not come back

Frank kills Face while a jackass with a camera and a tough actress follow him around. The final issue of Becky Cloonan's Punisher does a much better job answering the question "why did Marvel hand this title to a new creative team?" than it does of entertaining. Ms. Cloonan had a few good storytelling moments and her idea of treating Frank as the monster in a horror movie was promising, but she had a notable lack of good plot ideas and the decision to stretch her initial arc into 12 issues was epically bad. Resurrecting the least-interesting of the generally-uninteresting characters that arc introduced makes for a dull finale. Matt Horak caps it all off by doing a remarkable imitation of somebody frantically drawing his first-ever Punisher comic under a fill-in deadline. This is, in fact, his 10th Punisher comic, but he's getting booted before he ever managed to draw a good one.
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