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Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov are doing another Vietnam era Punisher series called The Platoon.
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Wasn't that supposed to be out a few years ago?
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Was Fury Max Parlov? If so, cool. I will eagerly away a trade.
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Ennis and Parlov talk The Platoon, out in October.

https://news.marvel.com/comics/70717/jo ... s-platoon/
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Been a few long times since this was update. I collected & read The Platoon, it is fantastic. There was also another limited series that I missed, something about Frank & Russia, back maybe 6 months ago? I'll need to dig it up eventually.

All this to say I finally got around to actually reading the Ennis Punisher stuff before it went MAX. Just finished "Welcome Back, Frank" and I must say it was everything I could have wanted. I even burst out laughing at one point near the end, those with photographic memories for every fucking comic they've ever read might remember what caused it - "Lets give it another ten." :lol: :lol: :lol:
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The Punisher: Soviet. It's good (of course), but not top tier Ennis.

Welcome Back, Frank is amazing. Did it make you appreciate the 2004 movie a little more (even if they didn't do the side characters justice)?
And yes, that line is great.
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Frank from the new Heroes Reborn.
Note the muted (but still identifiable) skull on his chest.
Some are speculating that this is this Marvel starting to tone down The Punisher.

They better not be.
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I love the idea of the skull being trauma plates, that's actually pretty awesome.
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Marvel is replacing Frank’s iconic skull. Don’t know if it’s permanent, or just for the story arc/series.

https://www.cbr.com/marvel-punisher-sku ... -replaced/

It looks stupid as fuck.
But, hey, we’re getting a new Punisher book at least.
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The new Punisher series started today. It is clear that Jason Aaron doesn’t understand the Punisher. And it’s clear his editors don’t understand. Because he pitched them this idea and instead of showing him the door and revoking his privilege to write for Marvel ever again, they said ‘yeah, let’s do that…’

Frank joins The Hand and becomes their chief assassin because….The Hand used their resurrection voodoo that they’re famous for to bring back his wife.
I call so much bullshit. I can’t even tell if I’m enraged or disappointed or what this feeling is. Maria has been brought back before. Twice. And Frank killed her(and the kids) twice because in his words ‘It wasn’t them’. It’s the first issue, so there’s a lot left to the story and maybe Frank is playing a long game to destroy the Hand. But even then, I doubt he’d reign it in and play along while sleeping next to his zombie wife for months while he put the pieces in place.

But on the plus side, the variant cover was the last Alex Ross portrait from the mural in my signature line. Have all 35 covers. But nowhere to display them all at once.
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My new working theory is that the Punisher that the Avengers put in a prison at the bottom of Lake Michigan or whereever at the end of Rucka’s run back in 2013 is still in that cell, and every Punisher book since then; the Thunderbolts run, Edmondson’s, Cloonan’s, and Roseneberg’s(I haven’t read Rosenberg’s run where Frank takes on Baron Zemo and his entire evil country of Bagalia) runs have been an LMD or a Skrull or something. And now Jason Aaron’s desecration in the current series.
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I've been saying Frank is still in Stark's prison at the bottom of Lake Michigan since that godawful Thunderbolts series came out and every terrible series after that.
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I just finished the FF stuff and was gonna read Firefly next, but maybe I’ll take a quick detour into the ‘P’ box and read the previous Punisher run before this. Were there two series after Cloonan’s run? I feel like he was kickin’ it in a War Machine armor for awhile, and then there was another series after that one. Plus there was a WotR adjacent mini or something. Soviet is also in there somewhere, but I read that as it was coming out.
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I had to look out up and I barely remember it.
Frank went after Zemo for the most part.
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I thought I was doing pretty well on having all the Punisher comics they’ve made so far. I just came across this Eminem/Punisher oneshot from 2009.

Fuck me. cbrealm has it conservatively listed at $100. But on ebay it’s going for, I shit you not….$7,500. That’s a fucking down payment on a house.

There’s also some mini-sized comics that came packed in DVD releases that I don’t have, but I’m not at that point where the completist in me needs to track them down. If I come across them, cool, but if I don’t, wev.
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