The Punisher, Issue #13 sees Frank Castle on the streets of New York again. In Issue #1 through Issue #12, he was hot on the tracks of the producers and traffickers of a super-soldier serum called EMC. A lot of people died in that one, so he took a vacation to heal his wounds. When he comes back, one of his guns is missing, a real Dirty Harry model. He has to track it down, and in doing so, he has to punish some people, including the high-school student who broke into his lair. The kid gets off with a warning, of course.
What I love about Becky Cloonan's The Punisher is what goes unsaid. Every frame tells a story, and the characters - even the minor ones - are exceptionally well realized. The kid who stole Frank's gun, for instance, is on a math scholarship to a private school, and he needs money to buy a "Stitch," a Nintendo-Switch-like gaming system he shows off to his friends. When Frank tells the kid to do his homework and get a part-time job, you expect that he does. You kind of root for the kid to do well and show up years later as a lawyer or something.
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