OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS...
• Frank gets help from an unlikely source.
• But trouble's not far behind!
• If you go out in the woods today, you're sure for a big surprise...
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This comic wasn't a step back in the quality, in terms of development and quality it was slightly better than the last one, but i think that this run as been a little "stagnated" without huge developments in the plot. Read Full Review
I really enjoyed this issue. It's maybe the biggest glimpse we've gotten so far in this series of Frank's humanity (in the same issue he disembowels a man and sets a bear on him!). I liked the Frank/Ethel vibe. The art was a bit stiff in a couple of places but still good, and I'm sure everyone was scrambling after Steve Dillon's unfortunate passing. Very good issue here.
The Punisher shakes off his nemesis Olaf with the help of a tough old lady. The writing is thin, but it might have made it to entertaining - old lady Ethel is pretty awesome - if it hadn't been backstabbed by some *terrible* art. Besides being incredibly rushed and unpolished, it has a sleek Euro look that could well be the least appropriate aesthetic in the world for a Punisher story. It's so insanely out of place that I'm wondering if Erica Henderson is on deck as the next guest artist.