The Punisher, Issue #4 begins with the Punisher driving through a firefight with a young girl - Juniper, the daughter of a man he killed - riding shotgun. Juniper is nine years old, and her father uses her as a booby trapped human shield in the previous issue. And if that's not enough drama, a D.E.A. helicopter is taking shots at both the Punisher and the people who are chasing him, members of Condor, a high-end gang producing and selling EMC, a super-soldier drug that makes people stronger, faster, and impervious to pain.
There's precious little dialogue in this series, and no narration to speak of. The drawings speak for themselves. Thus, it doesn't take as much time to get through as Green Lanterns or one of the many Deadpool comics. It's a lot like Hyperion, another comic from the Marvel line that I enjoy despite it not being a "name" title. The accuracy of the portrayal of the weapons is top notch with a few discrepancies which have been noted by others but are too minor for me to notice.
The Punisher has become one of my favorite Marvel characters as of late, although for the past month or two, I've mostly been reading comics in floppy format. Every time Becky Cloonan, Steve Dillon, and Frank Martin's The Punisher comes out, I remember that I should be reading The Punisher Max by Garth Ennis and his team.
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