GET THE FRANK IN HERE
>The one man war on crime is reforged, reloaded and reenergized this April! Frank Castle is back to wreak havoc on the underworld of the Marvel Universe once more in THE PUNISHER #1! Rising star writer Becky Cloonan (Gotham Academy) teams with legendary Punisher artist Steve Dillon for a new take and a new beginning for Frank – and a violent ending for all those standing in his way!
>A by-the-numbers drug bust is about to take Frank Castle by surprise – and he HATES surprises. There’s a new drug hitting the streets. One that has the ability to create unstable super soldiers. As the threads begin to pull loose, the man behind the drug’s startling connection to The Punisher is revealed. An old associate from Frank’s military days has resurfaced. But as he follows the trail of drugs and bodies deeper and deeper into the Northeast’s heart of darkness – has Frank Castle truly met his match?
Mobsters, villains and drug runners beware – Frank Castle is back…and he’s coming for you. Be there for the new beginning as Cloonan and Dillon take Frank Castle out of his comfort zone and to the edge of the world he thought he knew in THE PUNISHER #1!
End, rest are variants
>>81561672
>Frank face, now blacker
>>81561641
>dat FAL
mmmmmmmmmmm
too bad the handguard is all wonky
ANOTHER DAY IN THE WAR ZONE
ANOTHER DAY IN HELL'S KITCHEN
Obligatory skottie young variant
>>81561672
Thanks Dillon.
>>81561712
Great cover
>>81561576
Some unlettered pages of this issue were posted on Axel Alonso's Twitter.
I am also the one who originally posted the Noto variant in the solicits thread.
>>81561672
Now with 25% more Frank face
>>81561672
Is the Punisher half-black in this issue?
>>81561672
I just want to point out that only Frank has the frankface, check out >>81561609
Also, the author from Gotham Academy is writing Punisher?
Anyone have any ideas how that's gonna go?
>>81561672
Ordinarily I'd say that's a classic Frank Face but that looks more like a buzzcut Jesse from Preacher than anything.
>The Platoon will never come out
>>81561641
>ZOOM
>>81561672
Frankface lives
>>81563431
Where the fuck is the Platoon. Enniiiiis
>>81561672
>stabbing mobster with an m16
yes please
>>81561771
>Frankie was never the same after his family of pets died because the playground bullies fed them chocolate
>>81561672
DILLON
>>81564112
>hating Based Dillon
>>81561672
Only Frank has a Frank face.
Thanks Dillon. We really appreciate your work.
>>81561576
>Rising star writer Becky Cloonan (Gotham Academy) teams with legendary Punisher artist Steve Dillon
>Becky Cloonan the godlike artist writing with the same-faced shitheel Dillon
Why do they hate Punisher fans so much?
I like what I see, and the colors does suit Dillon's art.
>that hairdo
SYNERGY
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>>81567382
It was that way in MAX during the flashbacks to his younger years.
>>81562596
I heard she did a good job on Conan.
>>81567537
She didn't write Conan, senpai.
>>81567565
My mistake, I haven't read anything by her, but I've heard excellent things.
>>81567688
Yeah, I want to storytime her By Chance or Providence one of these days so people can familiarize themselves better with her.
>>81568023
>her Providence run
I know this isn't it but I immediately imagined it and started laughing.
>>81562596
>>81564484
Look at the guy he's shooting. That's most definitely a Frank Face
>>81562870
All Dillon's faces are Frank Faces.
>>81568154
Damnit you're right.
Both the guy he's shooting and the guy he's stabbing with a m16 are quite Frank.
Honestly though, if you were Dillon, would you NOT draw it everyone you could in a Punisher book, given the insult/meme it's become?
>>81561576
Frank looks like Robert Barone here.
>>81561734
What the fuck is this shit
>Northeast's heart of darkness
>out of Frank's comfort zone
Holy shit he's fighting Cthulhu or some other Lovecraft stuff isn't he?
>See Shalvey's great cover
>Think interior art will be good
>Dillon
Fucking Marvel does it again. They always put Shalvey's covers for books with half assed interiors
>>81571962
Age of Apocalypse variant cover.
>>81561672
So much Frank in one Frank.
>Steven Dillon
is Marvel doing this on purpose?
Haha, frank face, good joke
but seriously... why?
>>81572811
should be named Age of Tron.
>>81561672
>>81561576
>Dillon keeps getting work
FOR FUCKSAKE HE IS SO SHIT NOW JUST STOP ALREADY
>>81561672
>Dillon
So is this 616 Frank or Ultimate??
I always thought that T-Shirt Frank was lame, I love the body suit
>>81574351
I want to see Dillon and Lobdell team up on a book
>>81569286
Dillon doesn't deserve the hate, look at Preacher. I know someone says this every thread, but cut the guy some slack, he's not that bad.
I mean, he has definitely BEEN bad before, but yeah, he tries. You can tell.
>Dillon.
>>81574788
616
>>81575437
He's gotten worse over time. His best work was at 2000AD
How many Franks would a Franking Frank Frank if a Franking Frank could Frank Franks?
>>81561712
>>81564112
>>81574351
>>81574462
>not wanting Frankface
>>81575904
Frankface is fine! But on everyone?
>>81575595
It's really my own fault for expecting Eddie to have a Frank face.
I'll live, I just don't think I'll ever dream again.
>>81565091
Speak for yourself. The dillon drawn punishers are easily my fav. I could give a fuck about some bullshit memes I think the early Ennis punisher blows MAX out of the water any day of the week.
>>81576614
Goran Parlov was the Best Ennis' Punisher ever looked
>>81576614
>The dillon drawn punishers are easily my fav. I could give a fuck about some bullshit memes I think the early Ennis punisher blows MAX out of the water any day of the week.
Them are fighting words, anon. MAX had some great artists: Fernández, Medina, Parlov and others. In fact the only one I can think that was bad was Chaykin in that one issue he drew of "Long Cold Dark". No one can do Barracuda like Parlov does.
>>81576281
It's the way it should be
The art is so fucking terrible that I just won't read it.
>>81577275
Wait...what? What did Dillon drew that for? He wasn't on that arc or any of the MAX arcs for that matter.
>>81577483
Flashback, I think. It was with Aaron.
>>81577518
Yeah.
>>81577688
I forget, did we ever get a reveal of what Bullseye whispered to Frank?
>>81577919
>>81562199
nuMarvel inclusiveness, /co/mblr!
>>81577969
Daaaaaaamn.
I have to re-read all of this, man.
You know what's the one thing I would have liked Aaron to add? The return of Death (from Born) in those final moments of Frank, welcoming him home.
>>81578125
She can never have enough boy toys.
>>81563904
>You send them to detention and they're back on the playground in a day -- a week!
>>81575904
I think a lot of the bad rep Dillon gets with his art is partially attributed to his colors. His panels suffer quite a bit from how dull the scenery is and such. This really stuck out to me during that one arc where Frank is on the island, dealing with The Russian and that general. Very underwhelming backgrounds.
>>81577688
>>81577969
How did you guys feel about the way Aaron treated the character and how he ended the MAX series?
>>81574863
coat frank is best
>>81578125
The voice is not Death.
>Geek: Speaking of The Punisher MAX line, I am absolutely fascinated by your run. After reading Punisher: Born I began to wonder if Frank is actually driven by some sort of supernatural dark force. Could he be considered someone that’s been gifted with a higher (or lower) power?
>Ennis: To me, that whole sequence was about – it’s written in that classic way where maybe it’s there, maybe it’s all in his head. It’s more a man coming to terms with his own fate, his own destiny, and the path he’ll walk through the world. A man being honest with himself about who he is. At home he has the wife, the kid, the other kid on the way, meanwhile he’s up to his neck in horror. He likes it, and he’s coming to terms with that and admitting it.
>Ultimately, it’s his ability to embrace this that allows him to survive and come home to his wife and kids. He’s made a kind of deal with the attraction to the violence in himself that will, in a way, draw his family into that world too. Again, you can read it anyway you want (laughs) but that’s my own personal take!
>>81580777
It's strangely prescient for a hallucination.
>>81580833
Yeah, it's dumb. It kind of ruins Born for me desu.
>>81580893
Or you can just say that say that Garth missed something in his own story and go with it. Other characters in the MCU have commented on it.
>Moon Knight Vol 3, #9
>>81578923
>I think a lot of the bad rep Dillon gets with his art is partially attributed to his colors
No you buffoon its literally his ugly as face samefaces EVERYWHERE
That man couldn't draw an attractive face to save his fucking life
i really wish someone other than dillon was on art
>>81563431
I need more Frank in Vietnam.
Where can I download the punisher comicsFor free?
>>81576614
Glad I'm not the only one who prefers the first Punisher book Ennis did. Both are great, but the other one just feels more restrained and lighthearted for the better.
>Dillon
Any chance Dillon will only do one arc?
I wish Cloonan did the art for this too, why the fuck isn't she drawing anymore? She's great.
>>81584034
>I wish Cloonan did the art for this too, why the fuck isn't she drawing anymore? She's great.
She's doing covers for Shade, The Changing Girl from the new in-continuity Young Animal imprint.
>>81584077
Well yeah I meant interiors.
I guess writing/doing covers/commisions on the side is much easier than doing interiors. I heard doing covers pays really well too.
>>81578923
>how did you guys feel about the way Aaron treated the character and how he ended the MAX series?
Don't know if I'm alone here, but I was not a fan of how he dealt with Frank. The whole "Frank really just never loved his family when he came home and was about to leave them" bit just seems to kind of shit on everything we've seen from Frank before.
I think Daredevil did a much better job with handling Frank and his family.
The whole arc just felt off, like we got Frank as a shell of his former self. I guess that's one way to have a Punsiher run end, with Frank going out tired and worn down, but it doesn't feel right.
I want to be optimistic, I truly do, but I did re-read Punisher Max just last week and I just know we will never have a punisher like that ever again, it's perfect and that's a fucking hard standard to reach.
I'll read this no doubt, and hopefully it will be good, but no chance in hell it will compare to Ennis run sadly.
Hopefully it will prove me wrong.
>>81576924
This, not only Ennis does write what's probably the perfect run on the character, but the art of it it's mind-blowing good for 59 out of the 60 books, it's astonishing.
>>81584330
Punisher Max is the only true Punisher. MK Punisher comes close, but it just doesn't reach.
>>81584922
That's complete fucking bullshit. Dixon's run at it's best was like a PG-13 version of Ennis' and Welcome Back Frank is just as great as the MAX stuff if not better. There's plenty of material worth reading outside of MAX. The Archie crossover is probably the pinnacle of the character.
>>81577969
Bottom left is just flat-out Jesse Custer. Damn.
Dillon's a much better artist than the ones in the previous two ongoings.
>>81561672
It's time
Nothing annoys me more than Steve Dillon.
I'd rather have Edmenson back on.
>We could have had Maleev on this
>He's fucking around on an Iron Man spin-off book and being Bendis' bitch.
I FUCKING HATE MARVEL SO MUCH
Man, either you really like Dillon or hate him. I admit his art was better and still could be. He's really good at expressions, and I think the cleanness of his work, it can get too pragmatic at times. I just can't hate his stuff Frankface and all.
>>81580777
Yes, the whole thing is ambiguous. But even in Ennis' personal take there's room for that "voice" to come back in those final moments of Frank. I wish Aaron had done that.
The only time Dillon's art looks decent is when he's drawing Punisher because that's the only time it fits.
>>81577969
Aaron's run was such fucking garbage.
>>81577275
>it's a frank
>>81561702
>>81562199
>>81578030
Well, he was a black dude before.
So is liking Dillon's art a meme? Sure he gave us Frankface, but that doesn't mean he's a good artist.
Sameface aside, his action, panelling and backgrounds are also mediocre.
>more fucking Dillon
He looks like he's trying harder than usual at least
but god damn it such better artists have worked on Frank, why can't literally any of them draw this series
>>81586702
Liking Dillon's art is a rarity. The amount of people that like him can be counted on one hand.
WOW
look at this incredible dynamic and exciting action scene
>>81587775
Why does Frank even slick his hair back?
>>81584175
>"Frank really just never loved his family when he came home and was about to leave them"
I think Aaron clearly showed Frank loved his family. It's just that that way of life as a family man just didn't suit him. The war made him realize that he loved killing and he couldn't live without killing. He could not be both a family man and a killer. If he had not loved his family in some sort of way he would have simply left his family without saying goodbye. He wouldn't have tried to work at those shitty jobs. He wouldn't have tried to stay out of trouble. He avoided the bosses asshole son even when he killed that girl. He got a job at that shitty bar and tried to stay clear of those gangsters. He was doing it for his family. He clearly tried to make it work but he became a different man than he was before the war.
He simply could not be the man he wanted to be for his family. No matter how hard he tried. And that's part of the tragedy of Frank.
>>81561672
Based Frank is based.
>>81582741
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/peteis4324gn7/Punisher
>>81587927
His Italian heritage.
