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Punisher Max: The Complete Collection, Vol. 7
by Jason Aaron
This might be my favorite Punisher story ever.
The first arc is the build up to create the "Kingpin". In this Max universe, Kingpin is thought of as just a myth. So "mega figure" to control all the crime organizations in NYC. No one is really that person. Fisk starts off as a bodyguard and slowly decides to climb his way up the ladder to create the ultimate Kingpin we all know and hate. This is just the first arc as he becomes the lord of crime, Punisher tries to stop this accession. Sadly there's others in his way and by the time he tries to get to Kingpin it is too late. The crime lord has risen.
The next 15 or so issues involve a game of Fisk verse Frank. Both so eager to kill each other they make mistakes every step of the way. Hiring killers like Bullseye and Elecktra, backstabbing back and forth internally, and a blood good time as this tale is so fucking compelling I read half one night and half the next, and could have gone another 10 issues.
This stars a old, tired, and frankly done Frank trying to do his last few weeks as the Punisher. He sometimes just wants to die. Maybe always wants to die. But his body won't let him. He keeps pushing forward, onward, stabbed, shot, beaten, he keeps on going. A savage monster that won't stop.
The difference this time is we have monsters just like him. Especially Kingpin and Bullseye, supplying some really FUCKED up origin stories and tales along the way. With two vicious creatures against a monster himself it just makes for such a bombastic and exciting comic with the late great art from Steve Dillion. This is well worth reading.
A 5 out of 5.
The first arc is the build up to create the "Kingpin". In this Max universe, Kingpin is thought of as just a myth. So "mega figure" to control all the crime organizations in NYC. No one is really that person. Fisk starts off as a bodyguard and slowly decides to climb his way up the ladder to create the ultimate Kingpin we all know and hate. This is just the first arc as he becomes the lord of crime, Punisher tries to stop this accession. Sadly there's others in his way and by the time he tries to get to Kingpin it is too late. The crime lord has risen.
The next 15 or so issues involve a game of Fisk verse Frank. Both so eager to kill each other they make mistakes every step of the way. Hiring killers like Bullseye and Elecktra, backstabbing back and forth internally, and a blood good time as this tale is so fucking compelling I read half one night and half the next, and could have gone another 10 issues.
This stars a old, tired, and frankly done Frank trying to do his last few weeks as the Punisher. He sometimes just wants to die. Maybe always wants to die. But his body won't let him. He keeps pushing forward, onward, stabbed, shot, beaten, he keeps on going. A savage monster that won't stop.
The difference this time is we have monsters just like him. Especially Kingpin and Bullseye, supplying some really FUCKED up origin stories and tales along the way. With two vicious creatures against a monster himself it just makes for such a bombastic and exciting comic with the late great art from Steve Dillion. This is well worth reading.
A 5 out of 5.