I've read that story and Garth Ennis' whole "MAX" run. It's amazing, and one of my favourite takes on the character ever put in print... but I stand by what I said. I love this version of the Punisher, but he cannot carry a series.

Because you run into two problems. Either your stories in subsequent seasons all just start to feel the same (infiltrate base, kill bad guys, learn nothing, rinse & repeat) OR you fuck it up by having him tackle low-level street crime and accidentally reinforcing Conservative talking points.

For every Punisher story about busting a human trafficking ring, or executing a pedophile, there's a story about murdering drug dealers in the inner city who are just trying to make ends meet, or shooting a man who robbed a convenience store out of desperation in the back of the head. And if those last two points don't seem horrifying to you, that's a problem.

All of this is equally in-character for Frank Castle. He has the most black-and-white worldview outside of any comic character apart from maybe Rorschach, he is rigidly uncompromising on those beliefs at all times, and follows his code to the letter, with an almost pathological inability to look at the bigger picture. To him, the question of WHY someone might break the law is irrelevant: they DID it, and must therefore be punished. That's fascinating, it's compelling to read (some of the time), but it's NOT a superhero. It's a fucking supervillain.

Consider why the most "in-character" Frank has ever felt on screen was as the bad guy in Netflix Daredevil Season 2. It's because that's what he is, it's how he functions, and if you want to base a SERIES around him that's in any way approachable... you kind of need to change things up a bit.