Laurence Campbell feels right at home with this series, even if his art isn't entirely without flaws. His pencils are dark and brooding, with every panel slathered in black inks. The heavy blacks tend to obscure the finer details, though, and at times the shadows seem applied without any mind paid to rules of lighting. His Punisher is plenty ominous, though, and that goes a long way towards striking the right visual tone. If the writing feels like a significant step down from Ennis' run, at least the art manages to improve in some ways. Read Full Review

Cheap trick, I expected something like this. So the writer decided to play it safe... Okay, why not. It still was fine. It's just funny that Frank didn't straight up punished himself and had second thoughts, doubts. I wonder if he would do that if the bullets turned out to actually be from his gun... But that inner thought about the collateral damage and comparison to his family's death was worth this trick anyway. But anyway, it's kinda dumb that if Punisher accidentally kills an innocent he must suicide... He's in that thing for so many years and had zero collateral damage? Even if he killed a couple of innocents here and there - without him there would be so many more truly evil people who kill innocents just for fun or for business. Should he really stop just because he's not that good anymore? Especially if he was no hero in the first place... I don't know, the concept could be explored much better and deeper, but we have what we have.

By the way, the issue gives more hints the villain is someone who knew Punisher well and has a face he hides. Well, who that might be? Definitely not or lil boy Billy Russo. Finally a known Punisher villain in the Max universe? more