Punisher War Journal #17 (2008)

Last issue focused on Gibbon.  This one gives the history of Rampage and tells how he came to be Punisher’s (unwilling) partner and tech guy.

I am a big fan of how Garth Ennis reinvented Punisher.  Often, his Punisher MAX stories put Frank Castle as a “menace in the background,” while the main storyline shows us the evil that the villains do–before they’re executed.  Fraction is doing something similar here–showing Punisher’s impact on D-level supervillains by telling the stories of those characters and how Punisher has affected them.  Or killed them, depending on the story.

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