Earlier this yr, we obtained Frank Fort again on our TVs, and now it’s time for the Punisher to make a return to comics, too.
Marvel’s gun-toting antihero is coming again to the web page in Punisher: Crimson Band, a five-issue miniseries from Ben Percy (Wolverine) and Julius Ohta (Iron Man). The final time we noticed Frank was again in 2023 when he took management of the Hand ninja cult, realized his spouse was alive and needed a divorce, and was later despatched to Weirdworld. This new comedian sees Frank again in New York with none reminiscences of his previous life, however nonetheless good at taking lives, in order that’s what he’s gonna do. Very similar to his TV counterpart, this Frank is gonna rise up to some bloody stuff, and his miniseries comes with a “Crimson Band” label to suggest it’s obtained extra specific content material than regular.
“Frank Fort is one in every of my all-time favourite characters, and Punisher is a sequence I’ve been gunning to jot down for an extended, very long time,” wrote Percy. “I’m going to lean in totally and push the very limits of my favourite style: bushy psychopaths. That is going to be as gritty and bloody because it will get. Avenue-level mayhem awaits you.”
Marvel has usually appeared unsure about what to do with Frank. A few of that was owed to his Netflix sequence and the timing of a closely armed vigilante in a present airing weeks or months after mass shootings; different instances, it was due to how police had co-opted his image and used it to embellish their automobiles. Daredevil: Born Once more confronted that latter level throughout its first season by having Frank kill a bunch of Punisher cops and telling them they suck.
We’ll see what comics Frank does when Punisher: Crimson Band begins September 10.
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