The cover to issue #5 of this series was so awesome that they used it for the house ad. As for the series itself, it’s good…But not great.
We start with Bullseye in an ultra-secure facility. He’s being visited by two Federal agents who have to go through extreme protocols to see him.
We don’t even see him until the end of issue #1.
The rest of this series has him telling his life story.
Yes. It is EXACTLY what you would expect. It’s dark and extremely violent. Like when Bullseye plays baseball…
In issue #3, Lester recounts the adventure that got him his signature look/name: When he faced off against Punisher.
We then get to his killing Elektra in Daredevil #181.
The FBI agents are there to get Bullseye to reveal the location of some stolen nuclear material. Inevitably, they lose patience with Bullseye and open the cell. He kills them and breaks out. He goes and kills his real daddy, who happens to be nearby in a hospital bed. And then it all ties together with the big “twist:” The U.S. Government actually pays him $3m (and, presumably, lets him kill his dad) for the location of the weaponry, and lets him escape imprisonment.
It’s remarkable that a script by Daniel Way reads similar to a Garth Ennis script when it’s drawn by Steve Dillon. It’s not as good—the story beats are predictable not imaginative, the characterizations are very much “on the surface,” etc. But it’s similar. Out of all of Way’s Marvel stories I’ve read so far, chronologically, this is the best.