Tuesday, July 11, 2017

The Punisher #13


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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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