Frank Castle has finally embraced the role of Fist of the Beast, the High Slayer of the world's most powerful clan of murderers, the Hand. And the rest of the Marvel Universe has taken notice. If Frank really wants to end his war once and for all, he's going to have to fight his way through some old familiar faces.
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Punisher #11 is thought-provoking, revealing what kind of family Frank Castle had before it was taken from him. This helps recontextualize the series, Punisher himself, and how he will be changed forever once the series ends. Punisher is ambitious, perfectly paced, and will have you gripping your chair in anticipation. Read Full Review
Punisher #11 frames the climax for one of the oddest Punisher series ever delivered and it tees up something shocking, ugly and darkly funny as Frank does battle with an idiosyncratic collection of Avengers. Read Full Review
Punisher #11 continues this twisted, psychotic retcon of Frank Castle and places another unique caveat on the day of his "origin that's been left out of his backstory to date. It does provide a unique wrinkle that truthfully makes sense given the new information laid out by Aaron. However, I've said it in other reviews and I'll say it again, this retcon changes the character drastically. Not just in the short term but forever. The way fans look at the character and what he stands for are permanently changed. For better or worse that's still to be decided. Read Full Review
Punisher #11 is a surprisingly deep and emotional issue wherein Frank desperately tries (and fails) to save a marriage that's already collapsed. The writing here is some of the best we've seen from Aaron in a long time, and the cliffhanger will leave you guessing. Read Full Review
The past issues got me primed by charting a fascinating course for Maria Castle. Here is her solo, and it's as operatic and tragic as I could have hoped.
The storytelling is just shy of perfect and the content is astonishing. Just a great comic all around.
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The Maria work here is great. She's actually the star of this series. Which then adds a layer to Frank that quite frankly has been needed.
This had a big twist I wasn't expecting after Maria seemed to embrace The Hand. However, I should have seen it coming, as I don't think Maria's going to be staying alive past the end of this series. As for the rest of the book, I really enjoyed all of the flashbacks and I found Frank's battle with the heroes to be very entertaining. This has been a fantastic run so far and all I can say is that I hope the team sticks the landing with Issue 12.
I'm still not a fan of Frank Castle being a shitty Dad, a shitty husband, and having superpowers, but there is something to this run by Aaron. I love the present-day artwork and the residual bullet holes in Maria's face and body. I don't like that she was asking for a divorce when the attack happened. This changes cannon. They were happy in the original story on that day. I like the battle with the Avengers and the ending of this issue. People say that this is their favorite run of the Punisher, but I still like the story about his training the female Punisher and the story about him in the Stark-tech armor better.
It's written well enough, like most of J. Aaron's writing. But there's something about this run, I don't really like. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something there. Plus, in this issue, the punisher looked like wonder man.
This run disappoints everyone who wants to look for a Punisher story. This isn't a Punisher story. And it's not the "heavy metal skull", or the lack of guns in my opinion. It's really the flashbacks and how Jason Aaron is retconning Frank Castle origins.
Jason Aaron proved more than once he got a weird fixation with Frank and Maria marriage, or in this case, every time he got a chance to write a Punisher series, he always mention divorce. Don't know why this is so important to him, shattering the family man he always was and described since its creation.
This doesn't add anything to the Punisher story but it's an important story to shatter that image of a family man to a broken man, depressed with a weird childhood who cou more
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