Product Description: Best-selling crime novelist Gregg Hurwitz (The Kill Clause, The Crime Writer) and Laurence Campbell (Punisher Annual: The Hunted) bring you a tale of death, depravity, and revenge south of the border. In black vans and under cover of night, they descend on the little Mexican town of Tierra Rota, abducting its women and returning them days later like broken dolls. And no one can stop them! That is, until one brave soul approaches Frank Castle with his heart in one hand and a bag full of money in the other. Now Frank's no bounty hunter, and definitely no hero, but there are some things the Punisher just can't abide... Collects Punisher MAX #61-65 and Punisher Annual: The Hunted.
A huge letdown ^ i love garth's run of the punisher....but this just isnt "it". the premise is very promising but the charecters both good and bad are not intersting to say the least. it feels like a generic b-movie.
Not quite Garth but still great! ^ With Garth Ennis turning over the wheel I was worried that it wouldn't be the same. There are some differences but the quality is what I've come to expect and love about this series.
Gregg Hurwitz gets Punisher done right ^ Gregg Hurwitz takes over where Garth Ennis left-off. I really liked the story. It was freaky because it happens in certain parts of Mexico, people getting snatched off the streets. Personally, I thought Frank's fight with Jigsaw could of been drawn out a little more, but the story was great with alot of blood & violence. Pure Punisher euphoria. I loved the art in this, it matched with the gritty telling of the novel. I highly recommend this to anyone who reads the Max series of Punisher or Daredevil, it was well worth the price.
Punisher meets Social Action ^ The Punisher MAX series is a brutal, but very poignant response to the powerlessness that many people feel towards institutionalized injustice such as: organized crime, human trafficking and corporate corruption. Frank Castle(The Punisher) methodically and systematically weeds out all of these elements of our society that we all wish we could do something about. I don't recommend this title for anyone sensitive to violence, for it is very much that, but I do encourage and implore potential readers to consider the depth that also comes with this once one-dimensional comic-book character.
Letdown on the Punisher series ^ This is the Punisher MAX Series. Ennis was perfect for the Punisher. Hard-edge and gritty storylines with that twist. Hurwitz's storyline has absolutely no twists. A direct ripoff from the "magnificent seven" plot about a poor terrorised mexican town hiring mercenaries to clean up their town, it was obvious, barely into the opening sequences, that the abducted young women were coopted to produce synthetic drugs and there was no cult involved. The explanation of their missing eyeballs and lungs was not done very well as the artwork was not clear. Similarly the explanation that the Punisher did not kill the girl (thus maintaining his zero innocent body count) because of a paranormal incident with the girl telling him to dig up her body to find an incompatible bullet slug was just ridiculous. Anyway, why throw in a paranormal sequence here as it doesn't gel with the rest of the storyline. The Punisher could have just worked it out logically. The Jigsaw character was just pathetic in this piece. he was a walk-on character just to give a named baddie for the Punisher to kick around. The artwork was very disappointing. I don't like this style of artwork as it smacks of the Maleev style (daredevil) which looks like badly traced drawings from photos. The style is static. For someone used to the terrific style and expectation of the Punisher MAX series, this issue was disappointing.
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