By: Garth Ennis Publisher: Marvel Comics Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Marvel Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 312 Publication Date: March 26, 2008
Product Description: This deluxe hardcover collects Punisher Max Volume 7: Man of Stone and Punisher Max Volume 8: Widowmaker, plus extras. In Man of Stone, two new players arrive to work out a lethal grudge As British Special Forces and Taliban insurgents face off in the Afghan highlands. One is Frank Castle, the man they call the Punisher. The other is General Nikolai Alexandrovich Zakharov, Soviet war criminal, known as the Man of Stone. Neither will stop until the other is dead - and Zakharov has brought not only a platoon of elite shock troops, but CIA traitor Rawlins, blackest of black operators. Castle has allies of his own, but this is old, bad, bloody country. You go to war in Afghanistan...and everybody dies. And in Widowmaker, five Mafia widows are going to try what so many of their menfolk failed at: They're going to take the Punisher down. But they're not the only ones out for revenge. You spend your life married to organized crime, you end up with things in your past you'd rather forget. And for these women, the past is coming back in the worst way possible. Armed. Deadly. And hungry for justice. Collects Punisher #37-49.
Punisher MAX rules! This whole series was top drawer tough-guy, DEATH WISH style mayhem, albeit carefully orchastrated and shot through with the blackest of humor and irony. For thirty years of my reading experience, I never cared for The Punisher...until I kept reading rave reviews of this mature audiences series by Garth Ennis. Just one look was all it took. I then ordered all the paperbacks, loved them so much I then sold them and bough the oversized HC collections (2 paperback series her volume).
Ennis has left the series for the foreseeable future, but has indicated that he will be back.
if you want a dark, often twisted urban read, this series cannot be beat.
Tis Okay This Product Punisher Max, Vol. 4 was not good. I read Vol. 3, 2, 1 and by far this is the worst volume between the four. If you are a collector you will be disappointed, but I guess it has some good qualities like the art work and most of the dramatic parts. Like I printed if you're a collector you better get it.
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