Punisher

This is the closest you're gonna get, just like the page of Welcome Back where he briefly mentions the angel shit

Red band

Bring back MAX you cowards

PUNISHER: RED BAND #1 (OF 5)
Written by BENJAMIN PERCY
Art by JULIUS OHTA
Cover by MARCO CHECCHETTO
Variant Cover by E.M. GIST
Hidden Gem Variant Cover by MIKE ZECK
On Sale 9/10

It's for the best.

I am sure he will get his memories back eventually anons.

two eejits posting the preview?

More like one idiot

So he's not a cuck anymore?

he forgot he was cucked.

Writer Benjamin Percy teased what fans can expect:

“Frank Castle—that dark-hearted, vengeance machine, that monster who fights monsters—is one of my all-time favorite characters, and Punisher is a series I’ve been gunning to write for a long, long time,” Percy shared. “Not only is Frank back in black, but this is a Red Band book. You know what that means. I’m going to lean in fully and push the very limits of my favorite genre: hairy psychopaths. This is going to be as gritty and bloody as it gets. Street-level mayhem awaits you. And Julius Ohta—who I collaborated with previously on Hellverine—is bringing all the blood and fire and rage to the page with his beautiful, terrifying art.”

Good

He's just setting things up for his inevitable Punisher vs Predator book

Fucking finally

limited series

God damn it

Notice how they got the original skull back
inb4 some dumbass shoots up a place wearing it right before the issue drops

How many issues did this run, and what happened with this guy?

It was a 4 issue miniseries
His last appearance was in October 2024 in Daredevil: Woman Without Fear #4

It was a 4 issue miniseries

Of which was a 6 issues mini and before that an ongoing

1 cuck frank
2 phantom zone frank
3 AMNESIA
4 ???
5 Welcome Back Frank! (I guess...)

Captha: r 2 onions

Not enough

FRANK IS BACK!

To the surprise of no one except the gullible.

So they might be retconning Aaron's run

Has the events of that been acknowledged by any other title that came after? If not, it could be super-easy to retcon that shit away.

uzi

magazine pouch as part of skull design

white gloves

I will be reading

Turns out Frank was being manipulated by Nightmare and none of that previous shit happened

inb4 they deliberately made him a white blonde heterosexual just in case they bring back Frank and kill off Joe
You just fucking know people would go nuts if the replacement Punisher was a minority and then got killed the second Frank came back

a full clip

Donald Trump signed an executive order to get rid of Marvel DEI that is why Frank is back.

even has the normal logo...
God Bless America :')

Checchetto always drew my preferred Frank

Welcome back Frank...again! Cry me a river
you fuckwits. Even Marvel couldn't keep Frank
down. I wonder if he'll meet with Joe Garrison
though...

Percy has written Ghost Rider and Wolverine before

Hey you think he's gonna do pic related?

red band

fuck
Marvel, you already fucked over Bryan Hill's Blade, nobody is lining up to comic book stores to buy red band floppies

Genuinely ignorant here, what's the controversy with Red Band stuff again?

Nothing gorier than what we see in regular Marvel comics like Wolverine

OH WOW HOW FUCKING GRIPPING AND THRILLING WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING THAT THEY WOULD BRING BACK A POPULAR CHARACTER WOW GOLLY GEE MARVEL DOES IT AGAIN

...who fucking gives a shit?

i do.
it's them admitting they fucked up.

They brought him back because of Rivals.

Bryan Hill's Blade

Whatever happened to that. There were like two issues six months apart then nothing
Also this Red Band shit is the dumbest thing Marvel has ever did almost on par if not dumber than Black Label, none of what they print is more gory than the base books and there's no nudity or uncensored swearing so what's the fucking point

Truly the residence of concepts!!

Frank Castle is BACK. With no memories

hahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH OH NO NO NO NO HAHAHAHAHAH

They brought him back because of Rivals.

MCU synergy probably
Wake me up when Luna Snow gets a solo ongoing

Possibly Joe becomes the new head of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Fury Jr. Re-instated as Boss, since Nick Sr is a immortal dimension hopping man trying to fix every timeline the maker fucked.
And now we have Joe acting as Nick Sr. and we get Both Punishers bitching at each other like Nick Sr and Frank used to do.
Also Joe is revealed to have worked with frank in the operation that busted the cartel that led to his family's execution

Good, unless it is revealed that the "wife" that was resurrected was a demon, since Old Cosmic Frank story is still canon and his wife and kids literally loved frank.

It was acknowledged by Daredevil when it was being published

Heartbreaking: The worst person you know has their favorite characters back

Let's be real for a minute here. It was dumb as fuck to shelve him because of real world issues.
And to do it so poorly too.

hecking copperinos don't read comic books, lilbro.

Why does this hurt you so? His wife isn't okay with mass murder, and somehow that's bad?

How does Red Band negatively affect sales?

He's not even popular in Rivals. If anything, it's because he's a major character in Daredevil.

It's physical only, so it won't get any digital sales

Did he even appear out of his original book?

Did digital sales even increase for monthly comics in the past couple of years?
IIRC Zub said they still sold less compared to physical

Yeah

It actually does hurt me knowing that in real life a lot of parents don't simply throw money at a corp and move on.
They pay their kids phone bill for years to listen to their voicemail just to hear their voice again or spend hours at their burial plot and going through old family photos.
Frank's way of grieving was to kill every murdering scumbag and rapist he saw.

You think Aaron would be upset if his run got retconned or is he aware it'd be too easy to put on the chopping block?

Frank's way of grieving was to kill every murdering scumbag and rapist he saw.

And litterers don't forget litterers

Jason Aaron has gotten upset over less

So is Percy a good fit or not?

He wrote Punisher kills the Marvel Universe so I'll take Frank wank over Aaron's humiliation ritual.

Punisher kills the Marvel Universe

That was Garth Ennis

He’s profoundly mediocre. Otha’s art should be good though.
Preach. Ref Band is just a shittier MAX. Has Ennis said anything about more MAX books after Get Fury?

Rucka’s run was elevated from good to great by Chechetto’s art. I’ll read any book he’s on.

no memories

amnesia arcs are the biggest crutch for hack writers

The original run ended at #10 due to Blood Hunt, then after Blood Hunt it got Red Band for five issues and that's seemingly the end. Red Band is pretty fucking annoying as a Marvel Unlimited user, and last time I checked getcomics didn't upload all the red band issues yet. I guess they did crack down on piracy, but at the cost of nobody actually reading the book to begin with.

Scanning is a lost art

Retards dont know how to use it

Looking at that cover is like taking a look into another dimension. Cursed!

Nope

I think it's just people are more accustomed to rips these days for archiving/preservation
There are multiple comics that still haven't been scanned yet
Some even fairly recent releases tied to notable IPs
I know some people still scan but I'd honestly be surprised if a fucking Marvel comic isn't immediately a priority

I'm fine with the original comics skull or any variants within. The one from the 2004 Thomas Jane movie was the one that gained prominence for normies slapping on their car.

Worse is that Thomas Jane wanted comic accurate as some of the cast, but Travolta and the other fags complained about violence.
Only the fucking Jack Daniels short was somwhat a "homage" to that original idea.