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Take a second and scroll down to the credits. That’s right. This is a horror Punisher comic by two comic book GOATs.
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It’s also an action comic.
The story is fairly simple: A ’60s homegrown terrorist–styled after the real-life Weathermen–gets out of prison, starts working on returning to bombing businesses, but gets exposed to a mutating chemical that makes him very hard to kill…And fuses him with his partner in crime.
They live in the sewers and stalk the people who did it to them.
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And they’ve got monster friends.
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Except they don’t. The guy above was drugged by the antiheroes, and Punisher punishes him…
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I love how it’s not clear what’s going on at first. It’s a great way to blend horror into (yet another) Punisher story about bad guys getting what they’ve got coming.
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Of course eventually Punisher does have to meet up with the “villain” here, and learns that a baby was mutated.
Into a horrible monster.
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So he has to kill the baby.
So the monsters were were actually noble warriors (of course they were–hippies with bombs are always good guys), who were trying to blow up a factory of mutants just like them.
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And of course there’s a larger conspiracy involving SHIELD, who were responsible for the mutates, along with Kingpin.
It’s well done–multidimensional without being corny and it still has the violence we all need from a Punisher book.
Each issue of this book was printed on high-quality paper, and was oversized (50 pages).