Jesus the amount of craziness in this volume is nearly unmatched. This is Garth with freedom to say and do whatever the fuck he wants.

The first story stars Barracuda, a crazy hitman who decides to take a job from the rich mob family to fucking destroy the Punisher. The tale starts with Punisher taking out scum and saving one guy who was getting raped by multiple other guys. Of course this isn't a safe save as this guy betrays the Punisher and in comes Barracuda, one of the most insane, over the top, hilarious villains I've ever seen in a Marvel comic. I got to say, this arc was super fun, dumb as shit at times, but Barracuda is a awesome villain and brutal, able to go one on one with the Punisher was great.

The next arc is more serious where Frank goes to stop basically a warmonger who he didn't finish off before. This also leads to old friends, lots of betrayals, and some actual sad deaths. All of this worked and the ending to the arc was pretty good. A little long but good.

The final arc is about widows of all the people Frank murdered throughout the years. They want revenge. But when Frank gets a unlikely companion to help him finish off the woman it's this lady who becomes the new Punisher for a short time. Brutal, fucked up, and a super downer of a ending,t his arc was great and also dealt with racism in a different way than expected.

Overall, some great stuff all around. I was into pretty much all three arcs. Very different tones but they somehow all worked. Super Ennis can get wordy but least it's almost always entertaining. A 4.5 out of 5.