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The Punisher Volume 1 (The Punisher Vol. VIII #1)
For Frank Castle, death comes easy. Life is where things gets complicated. Fully loaded with Eisner Award-winning writer Greg Rucka (Batwoman, Queen and Country, WOLVERINE) and neo-superstar artist Marco Checchetto (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, DAREDEVIL), the biggest gun of all is back with blood on his hands and vengeance in his eyes to serve his own brand of justice with everyth...more
Hardcover, 128 pages
Published
March 14th 2012
by Marvel Comics
(first published February 15th 2012)
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I'd heard mixed things about this. But I wanted to check it out to try some of Rucka's work, since I'm not that familiar. I also like crime comics, which is what this is, basically.
Punisher is almost a background character. It's more about his presence in the world rather than him being front and centre on the panel. For the first issue he doesn't even talk. It's a take that some people won't like. But I always appreciate writers trying to do something new with Marvel characters.
The story opens...more
Punisher is almost a background character. It's more about his presence in the world rather than him being front and centre on the panel. For the first issue he doesn't even talk. It's a take that some people won't like. But I always appreciate writers trying to do something new with Marvel characters.
The story opens...more
The big reason Greg Rucka's 'The Punisher' works so well is that Frank Castle/Punisher is used so sparingly. After watching him blow threw his enemies in new and interesting (not to mention vicious and disgusting) ways it's refreshing to see Frank take a back-seat to the stories. There's still action and violence aplenty but there's also more humaity too as people who are effected by Frank and his world take center-stage in the comic's narrative. Everyone from Police Detectives to a maverick rep...more
The book did not make it clear this was the beginning of a new series not a supposedly self-contained mini-series. Had I known that going in or at the end, I probably would have not been so disappointed by the end. It's not an end - it just stops. None of the characters have any resolution, none of the plots have any conclusions - it just stops. Now that I know it's not a self-contained story but is the beginning of a series, I don't mind as much (but I probably wouldn't have read it). Even for...more
Mar 30, 2013
Shannon Appelcline
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3 of 5 stars
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I usually love Rucka’s work, and this has the same noir/crime feeling from some of his other works like The Question that made them very successful. Unfortunately, I found other elements of the story challenging.
Part of this was due to Rucka trying out a new technique of using entirely wordless pages to convey action sequences. Unfortunately, the art just doesn’t carry the style, and so I was often left studying and restudying the panels trying to figure out what was going on.
The other problem i...more
Part of this was due to Rucka trying out a new technique of using entirely wordless pages to convey action sequences. Unfortunately, the art just doesn’t carry the style, and so I was often left studying and restudying the panels trying to figure out what was going on.
The other problem i...more
if ever there was a character that should only be used for team-ups and special event mini-series then the punisher is the one.
frank has returned from active duty and on a family day out sees his family killed by new york mobsters. on that day the punisher was born and from then on frank has been a busy boy killing, killing and more killing.
pretty much that is all the punisher does is kill bad guys.
i like greg rucka but have to say i think he is just going through the motions here - but then...more
frank has returned from active duty and on a family day out sees his family killed by new york mobsters. on that day the punisher was born and from then on frank has been a busy boy killing, killing and more killing.
pretty much that is all the punisher does is kill bad guys.
i like greg rucka but have to say i think he is just going through the motions here - but then...more
The skull on Frank Castle's iconic tee is now a melting hominid -- braincase minus mandible as always, but melancholy, proto-human, threatening. In earlier Punisher comics you figured he found a skull shirt in a sewer, but here it's like he designed it from scratch -- it's the only concession to a putative inner life you get in this reboot. And therein lies Rucka's charm. In the past, we always endured some attempt to make the Punisher a fellow human, from his ambiguous origin story to PTSD esca...more
Greg Rucka, I love you. Man can't write a book worth a damn, but puts his hand on a comic script and becomes Raymond Chandler. Just like Mark Waid on Daredevil, Rucka is bringing the Punisher up out of the zany, silly, slapstick corner that other writers painted him into. A complete revamp of the character and series by Rucka could make this one of the best books Marvel has to offer. Especially with the way their top writers like Bendis and Aaron like to go overboard on their books, its nice to...more
I haven't been the biggest Greg Rucka fan over the past few years. Ever since he decided to turn Atticus Kodiak into Batman I've found his work to be uninteresting. This volume of The Punisher changes that. If you're looking into finding insight to Frank Castle's war on criminals, I suggest you look elsewhere. The story is based around a bloodbath at a wedding. The sole survivor is the bride who much like Castle, has a military background. Time will tell if she becomes like him. It was also nice...more
Garth Ennis had two very different takes on The Punisher; his anarchic, superhero-featuring and frequently hilarious Marvel Knights series and his stripped down, hardcore, gritty and realistic Marvel Max series. This reboot sits somewhere in between the two, and works pretty well.
The artwork is gorgeous to look at, although the action scenes are a little hard to follow. The story also hasn't yet gone anywhere too exciting and it's a little disappointing the book doesn't collect a self-contained...more
The artwork is gorgeous to look at, although the action scenes are a little hard to follow. The story also hasn't yet gone anywhere too exciting and it's a little disappointing the book doesn't collect a self-contained...more
With Jason Aaron’s fantastic ending to the old Punisher, Greg Rucka steps in to reboot the character for the new Marvel Universe. In this version, Frank Castle is no longer a Vietnam vet but a vet of a war (the conflict is never specified so as not to age him - he looks about 30 though) - other than this, the rest of the Punisher origin story is untouched.
I can’t say I’m the biggest fan of Greg Rucka so I approached this book not expecting much - which turned out to be right as Rucka presents a...more
I can’t say I’m the biggest fan of Greg Rucka so I approached this book not expecting much - which turned out to be right as Rucka presents a...more
With Greg Rucka writing then you know that this is going to be a spectacular series. In the first few issues Frank has little dialogue, however, this portrays him as a force that is meant to be feared witin the criminal underworld. Forget the Avengers, Punisher is more of a threat to criminals. The supporting characters are also well fleshed out, particularly the two detectives who are always hindered in their investigations by the vigilante Punisher. The art is absolutely fantastic, Marco was p...more
Rucka instantly sets a mood - gritty, sparse, cryptic, rainy, bloody, heavy. No spare words - no spare emotions. More intense looks, less of the omniscient narrator that spoils a good tense mystery build-up.
Checchetto composes some amazing scenes and looks: evocative, nothing unnecessary, and the transitions seem cinematic. Using the comics medium to its greatest effect, Checchetto and Rucka present a vignette - an introduction - in the first issue that rivals some of the most thrilling, heart-...more
Checchetto composes some amazing scenes and looks: evocative, nothing unnecessary, and the transitions seem cinematic. Using the comics medium to its greatest effect, Checchetto and Rucka present a vignette - an introduction - in the first issue that rivals some of the most thrilling, heart-...more
Again, handing you over to Sam Quixote. No real depth, some likeable secondary characters, occasionally lovely artwork, but overall there's no real sense of who or what Frank is, or why we should care about what he's doing. Bit by the numbers. Not particularly memorable, although I'd like to see more of Rachel.
I'm a huge fan of Greg Rucka, but this story didn't grab me the same way that his writing normally does.
Gotham Central mixed with the Punisher - two of my favourite things!
Mar 21, 2013
Craig
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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The best Punisher since the best of Garth Ennis' run.
I've never seen the Punisher drawn as a bishonen before.
Max Fiumara's art in the last story is awesome!
it's barely half a story, but whatever...
The Punisher returns in style!
yeeesssssss!!
Great story and great art to back it up. It seems that Rucka's run is going to spread the focus on the supporting characters too, ala Gotham Central, which is a take on the Punisher that I haven't seen/read yet.
Took a little while to warm up to the new art and Rucka's take on The Punisher was vastly more cerebral than Garth Ennis's excellent decade (plus?) long run.
Not a Punisher fan in my decades of reading comics, but with Rucka at the helm I am now.
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Greg Rucka, is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his work on such comics as Action Comics, Batwoman: Detective Comics, and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics, and for novels such as his Queen & Country series.
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