Suggestion for starting points?
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So the Rainbooms want to turn this into a real battle of the bands? Then let's battle...
>>78561075
Additions:
Circle of Blood
Year One
Remender's Punisher
Marvel Super Action
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>>78563618
Looks like no one wants to chat The Punisher on New Years Eve, Anon.
>>78563736
To be fair, was mostly a "where to start" thread.
Most of Ennis' s MAX, and most of Ennis in general.
>>78561030
My personal rec list for the essential Punisher (in what I think is a reasonable reading order):
- Marvel Preview #2 (August 1975)
- Marvel Super Action #1 (January 1976)
- Punisher, Vol. 1 #1–#5 (January 1986–May 1986); a.k.a. Punisher Circle of Blood
- Punisher: Return to Big Nothing (1989)
- Punisher: Born #1–#4 (June 2003–October 2003)
- Punisher: The Cell (July 2005)
- Punisher: The Tyger (February 2006)
- Punisher, Vol. 6 #1–#60 (March 2004–October 2008); a.k.a. Punisher MAX by Garth Ennis
Recommended supplemental, related reading:
- Punisher MAX presents: Barracuda #1–#5 (April 2007–August 2007)
- Fury MAX #1–#13 (July 2012–August 2013); a.k.a. Fury: My War Gone By
The above comics portray the Punisher as existing in his own, more grounded "universe," without other superheroes (yes, Nick Fury is a prominent character in the Garth Ennis-written issues, but he's portrayed as a cynical, scheming Cold War spook, not an unaging super-spy).
Most Punisher fans would probably suggest picking up the Chuck Dixon-written issues of the 1987 ongoing Punisher series as well as the 1988 Punisher War Journal and 1992 Punisher War Zone titles, but I'm not really a fan of the Punisher as part of the larger Marvel superhero universe (I actually very much dislike the character in the superhero context), but YMMV.
Go back in time two weeks when someone was storytiming all the good ones once a night.
