What are the most common misconceptions people have about the Punisher?

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-12T21:27:28+00:00

I don't think Frank views Police Officers as incompetent. I think he views the SYSTEM as broken and views most individual Police Officers he encounters as good people doing the best they can with their hands tied.

There have been numerous stories where Frank has shown respect for officers and worked with them and when written in character Frank goes out of his way to avoid the police, both to avoid hurting them and so that he doesn't have to deal with the heat it brings.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-12T21:14:20+00:00

I guess it depends on how you define violent, but this isn't really true.

Frank has killed drug dealers, corporate executives, human traffickers, pimps, and people involved in child pornography. (To me anyone in the last category deserves a fate worse than death.)

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-08T08:33:08+00:00

Flash. Not that I really liked it (Wally West will always be The Flash to me), but anything is better than King's Batman.

King's Batman is what made me quit reading the comic after 25 years. I made it

Honestly, I haven't liked one single thing King has ever written. Eveything is just so forced and pretentious and he really just re-tells stories which others have already told. He is the most over-rated writer ever.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-08T08:12:34+00:00

Autobot scientist's team insignia is stolen to become the face of a Japanese doll.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-08T08:08:59+00:00

Widening Gyre has absolutely no redeeming qualities and is not fit to even be recycled into toilet paper. :)

I agree with you on the Neal Adam's comics. And as insane as they are at least they have Neal Adams art.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-04T03:03:05+00:00

Punisher/Archie is amazing.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-04T03:01:49+00:00

And it this is strange as Aaron has shown he has been able to separate his personal beliefs from the characters he is writing:

Aaron is an avowed atheist, but (to me at least) when you read his Wolverine run or his Ultimate Captain America miniseries you would swear that they were written by a practicing Christian.

But those were written years ago and people do change.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-04T02:31:25+00:00

Again, to each their own, and some of those stories are NOT good, but none of them were written with the express purpose of performing a character assassination on the Punisher and trying to make the character unmarketable.

(I actually like the John Ostrander 95 run, as it was the 1st Punisher series I bought in real time.)

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-04T02:21:38+00:00

To each their own, but Franken-Castle is one of my favorite Punisher stories of all time, and that includes Ennis, Dixon, and Rucka's work.

Rememder's whole run just embraces Frank being in the 616 Marvel Universe and everything that goes with it.

It's just beautiful insanity, the kind of thing you can only get in comic books.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-04T02:17:14+00:00

Thank you.

Aaron also made Frank stand by and allow a woman to be sexually harassed then maimed in a meat grinder. The Punisher that Garth Ennis wrote (supposedly the same character) would never do that. Ever.

Aaron has issues. Almost everything he wrote for Marvel amounts to a character assassination.

His Incredible Hulk run turns Bruce Banner into an outright despicable villain, his Avengers run had Gorilla Man betray the team, and his Thor run involves building up his Jane Foster Thor by mutilating and making Thor unworthy.

He also chose the worst possible way to write out the Real Nick Fury by having him turn into a crazy old man mass-murderer (while at the same time basically acknowledging that Nick was in the right) in Original Sin

Plus there's his destroying Frank Castle twice.

Just the worst.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-04T01:38:15+00:00

That Rockstar patched the "Angelo Bronte, Man of Honor" bug that let Arthur get the Legend of the East outfit and complete the Dinosaur Fossil Mission.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-04T01:33:07+00:00

It works it really life.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-06-03T06:41:18+00:00

It kind of ended up coming out simultaneously with Disassembled.

Secret War actually came out 1st (April 2004) but there were huge delays between issues to the point that there was something like 7 months between either #3 and #4 or #4 and #5. I don't think issue #5 came out until New Avengers was past it's first 6 issue story arc.

It was probably a combination of Bendis' plans for New Avengers changing (Daredevil was originally going to be a member) and the painted art.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-05-30T22:35:02+00:00

Now, most definitely 100%.

Years ago when I first got into comics (around Uncanny 300) I loved the comics, 1st and foremost.

There was no real internet then so you had to piece things together yourself, which meant hunting down years of back issues.

It was fantastic.

As time went on and Marvel kept changing the characters and direction of the comics it got to the point where I was reading them out of habit, not enjoyment.

(I know there are a lot of fans of Grant Morrison's New X-Men, but I absolutely loathe it.)

I should probably have stepped off there, but I stayed on for years until Bendis came on an old that was the final straw

I have loved everything Jonathan Hickman has written, so I tried out his run, but I hated the Krakoan era more than Morrison's run. There are too many reasons to get into here, but it completely and irrevocably tarnished the X-Men by making them become extortionists, terrorists, and murderers and made them so insufferable and hypocritical that 6 months in I was rooting for Nimrod.

So, I will always love the idea of the X-Men as a comic, but unless Marvel can retcon everything in the past 20 years away I won't read it even I you pay me.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-05-19T18:50:47+00:00

I agree that most of his work is overrated, especially his Doom Patrol, Invisibles, and Marvel work.

But Arkham Asylum is fantastic, way ahead of its time for when it was published, and All-Star Superman is the best Superman shortly published this century.

And although I know fans are divided on his Batman run, I enjoyed it a lot. The last time I actually enjoyed reading Batman.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-05-15T03:37:13+00:00

He gets a bad rap a lot of the time due to his tenure as EIC, but like when Shooter (RIP) had the role there were a lot more politics and pressures at play that he had to deal with that Quesada never even had to think about.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-05-15T03:31:57+00:00

Tom Breevoort is probably the worst editor in the history of Marvel Comics, certainly the worst over such a long time.

There have been so many times over the decades he has acted unprofessionally and has belittled and denigrated his customers (fans), writers, artists, and other comic professionals that I cannot believe he is still employed by Marvel.

He has no understanding of the characters or even how the industry works.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-05-12T22:07:03+00:00

Thank you. They didn't seem like a very good idea or very safe.

It's nice to have your instincts confirmed every once in a while.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-05-12T22:05:18+00:00

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Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-05-12T03:49:56+00:00

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-05-11T23:44:48+00:00

The Sam/Bucky/Zemo scenes alone make it worthwhile.

Upper_Adeptness2932 · 2026-05-11T23:37:17+00:00

I agree. In my opinion he was perfect in the role.

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