So Garth Ennis continues his bloody Punisher run in...well Ennis fashion.

So this is broken into 3 different arcs. First one is Mother Russia, which is mostly about Fury sending Frank into Russia to retrieve something (or someone) and lots of twist and turns. Next up is Up is Down and Black is White, which is just fucking insane to be honest. Basically about a mob man who has this dumb fucking idea to dig up Frank's family's skeletons and pissed on them. Yeah...That won't come back to bite him in the ass. The last story is The Slavers, which is probably the most fucked up in some ways, actually in all ways, and mostly focuses on how woman are grabbed up on the street and treated as sex slaves.

Good: Loved a lot of The Slavers. It's actually a great commentary on people not wanting to hear all the bad things to happen to woman sex slaves, but even for me it was hard to read this just to think this really DOES happen, and there is no punisher to help in real life. I also enjoyed a lot of up is down and black is white, because it's over the top, but damn is it entertaining. It also has the best ending so far.

Bad: I didn't like Mother Russia much. It's not horrible but it's kind of boring. To have it as the first story it almost made me want to stop reading for a bit. I also think sometimes Ennis is WAY too wordy and slows the pacing down.

I'd probably end up giving this a 3.5 but I'll bump it up to a 4 because I really enjoyed the last two arcs. Now need to get volume 3!