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redmangoose 12 years ago#1
I know Garth's MAX run is heralded as the best Punisher run of all time, but I was thinking of picking up Remender's omnibus and perhaps Aaron's in the future. They any good?
And why the **** hasn't Ennis' MAX been given the omni treatment yet? That is a crime. I would pick his stuff up but I prefer having my collection in rarer formats. HC Vol. 4 is oop unfortunately...
dtm07 12 years ago#2
Rucka's Punisher run that ended about a year ago was just about perfect. Def check that out.

Aaron's MAX series was also really good.
Dr_Donald_Blake 12 years ago#3
Second Rucka's Punisher. He basically looks like Big Boss after the first arc and Marco Checchetto's art is pretty great.

I miss Solid Frank...
redmangoose 12 years ago#4
Dr_Donald_Blake posted...
Second Rucka's Punisher. He basically looks like Big Boss after the first arc and Marco Checchetto's art is pretty great.

I miss Solid Frank...


That's good to hear. I loved MGS3.
Dark_Flux 12 years ago#5
Greg Ruckas recent run.
Early Chuck Dixon stuff.
Jason Aarons MAX series.

And the Ennis pre-MAX, Marvel Knights stuff if you havnt read it.
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Tromeritus 12 years ago#6
Jason Aaron's PunisherMAX was pretty great!
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Johnny_Blaque 12 years ago#7
Chuck Dixons run was really good. Also the post Ennis MAX stuff is great too, they just lucked out on a string of crime writers who all told fun tales.
akuma634 12 years ago#8
I didn't get the last run, I tried to get into it but it was mostly about Marvel's cops and them trying to stop The Punisher, he felt like a guest in his own series.

It's hard go too wrong with The Punisher. His various series from the 80's and 90's like The Punisher v2, War Journal, and War Zone were consistently good. Marvel Knights Punisher had some fun stories and the Garth Ennis around that time was full of great dark comedy like his run ins with the Gnuchi family.

The only Punisher comics I would say to avoid at all cost would be Punisher: Purgatory which was just plain stupid. Then when Garth Ennis left Punisher MAX the various writers after that went from readable to WTH were they thinking like one story had The Punisher in a swamp full of stereotypical hillbillies who are cannibals and he references Pokemon cards, because a Vietnam vet who's kids died in the 70's would totally know what Pokemon is. But Jason Arron came along and restored MAX to it's former glory. Also it's up to you, a lot of people hated it but I liked it, the arc called Frankencastle which involves all the monsters in the Marvel universe that nobody ever writes about and The Punisher as a Frankenstein's Monster has to defend them from hunters, in every issue the author had to explain to people writing in that if you want a gritty realistic story then read Punisher MAX. Other than that, I can't think of much that gets too much resentment from comic fans. There's just the occasional weird story like when The Punisher got surgery to become a black man and hung out with Luke Cage for a bit, I still don't know who thought that was a great idea.
Gundammike 12 years ago#9
The 80's-early 90's titles. From the Circle of Blood mini-series, to the Mike Baron & others original series, to the Punisher: War Journal run, it's all good.
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