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[The Take Out Bandit]

OMG you are so wrong! haha

Clearly batman didn't need to see that either.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

The costumed super heroes of the Marvel Universe regularly thwart the schemes of criminals and terrorists. For Frank Castle, stopping crime isn't enough; he has declared war on it. Following his family's murder by the forces of organized crime, Castle donned a costume with a stylized death's head symbol on his chest and created the vigilante identity of the Punisher.

As the Punisher, Castle has used the skills he learned as a Special Forces soldier to wage a one man crusade against the forces of crime and terror in New York City. Announced today at C2E2, writer Greg Rucka and artist Marco Checchetto kick off Castle's latest campaign against the scum of New York City with the launch of an all-new "Punisher" ongoing series in August. CBR News spoke with Rucka about his plans for the book.

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While Rucka feels the Punisher is a ruthless and utterly determined character, he doesn't believe Frank Castle is psychotic. "There's a documented syndrome among snipers. You're sitting behind the scope, and then the word comes to fire and you reach out and touch somebody a thousand meters away. You don't know them and you never will and you ended their life. You get a sense of power and almost godhood from that," Rucka said. "There are documented cases of snipers who continue to just shoot even after they've taken down their target. In many ways that could be Frank, but it isn't. Why isn't it? Because a lesser person would have gone mad a long time ago and I refuse to accept that the Punisher is crazy.

"There's no point writing the Punisher if he's crazy because then you take away his ownership of everything he does," Rucka continued. "One of the things that I think is so amazing about him is that you don't really survive as a creature of vengeance after you've exacted your vengeance [Castle destroyed the crime family that murdered his love ones on an early mission] unless you're working on some other level."

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"In the last several years there have been a slew of fantastic writers on the book, and that's aside from a rather epic run that Garth Ennis did. So in their own way, the crime stories have been done from just about every angle, but to me, Frank is the vessel. He's the tank that's going to roll through the countryside. The question is, who else is going to be in the countryside and who is going to manage to get out of the way of the treads? Those to me are interesting questions," Rucka said. "Within the confines of the Marvel Universe, Frank has a certain amount of rope, and if he extends it too far then you have people with god-like powers paying attention to you. And that's a problem. It's a problem for him not so much because he's afraid of that fight, it's because that fight is going to take him off mission. If he has to deal with that stuff then he's not dealing with what he wants to be dealing with, and what he wants to deal with is killing people who need to die."

Rucka feels the best Punisher stories are ones where you meet an especially heinous target and then watch Frank Castle run that target down. For the writer's initial stories he'll introduce several new dangerous and demented characters for the Punisher to hunt. "At the start I'm less interested in dealing with the Punisher's gallery of established rogues than I am with establishing a status quo," Rucka explained. "Where I'm coming from will allow us to bring a couple of new organizations into New York and to set up some other criminal enterprises and adversarial forces that he could be facing, because frankly if you're in the mob and you're in New York you're terribly dumb. At this point you really do know how that ends."

 

[krypt0nian]

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One thing. FUCK YEAH! Finally Rucka has come back to supers comics!

 

[bangai-o]

One thing. FUCK YEAH! Finally Rucka has come back to supers comics!

im up for it... unless it is 3.99

ah well. They are also re-launching Darevil.

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/19/mark-waid-paolo-rivera-marcos-maritn-daredevil/

 

[Nesotenso]

The creative teams for both Punisher and Daredevil are stellar. Marco Checchetto work on the Shadowland issues was brilliant and anyone who has read Amazing Spider-man is familiar with Rivera and Martin. Unfortunately, I think its gonna be 3.99 like Moonknight by bendis and Maleev. Marvel has been snagging up some of the most talented writers in the industry and sometimes I feel that DC is asleep at the wheel. Snyder was a good get though.

 

[bangai-o]

The creative teams for both Punisher and Daredevil are stellar. Marco Checchetto work on the Shadowland issues was brilliant and anyone who has read Amazing Spider-man is familiar with Rivera and Martin. Unfortunately, I think its gonna be 3.99 like Moonknight by bendis and Maleev. Marvel has been snagging up some of the most talented writers in the industry and sometimes I feel that DC is asleep at the wheel. Snyder was a good get though.

David Hine writes some really good "dark" stories that can resemble Bendis and Rucka. To me, his 3 year run on Spawn had been the best stories the series EVER had (that includes Hellspawn). DC has him on The Spirit which is greatness, unfortunately is ending, while Azreal has a boring deadline artist that does not compliment the writing.

David Hine should be the premiere writer on Batman. Not just a few filler issues. Get an artist that you might find in Northlanders, and stay away from mega events (lol).

 

[Tawney Bomb]

Having Rucka on Punisher is great, I liked Remender, but I just couldn't get into FrankenCastle. This has to mean that Stumptown is put on hold for a long while I'm assuming? Also sad that Rucka probably won't be coming back to Batwoman, which he did a great job on too.

Mark Waid on Daredevil sounds good, but I've never been much into Daredevil, but I may give it a go.

Still good to see Rucka doing something again.

 

[Nesotenso]

David Hine writes some really good "dark" stories that can resemble Bendis and Rucka. To me, his 3 year run on Spawn had been the best stories the series EVER had (that includes Hellspawn). DC has him on The Spirit which is greatness, unfortunately is ending, while Azreal has a boring deadline artist that does not compliment the writing.

David Hine should be the premiere writer on Batman. Not just a few filler issues. Get an artist that you might find in Northlanders, and stay away from mega events (lol).

I liked some of David Hine's work on Detective.

I just feel that Marvel gives writers who debut with creator owned books at Image or Vertigo a chance at writing their characters or is more proactive on signing them as exclusives. For example, Nick Spencer. I have seen some comic book journalists mention how some the Flashpoint tie-ins are being written by current or formal editorial staff. DC doesn't seem to give indy writers writing gigs.

 

[Tawney Bomb]

I liked some of David Hine's work on Detective.

I just feel that Marvel gives writers who debut with creator owned books at Image or Vertigo a chance at writing their characters or is more proactive on signing them as exclusives. For example, Nick Spencer. I have seen some comic book journalists mention how some the Flashpoint tie-ins are being written by current or formal editorial staff. DC doesn't seem to give indy writers writing gigs.

I never realized that, but when I first looked at all of the mini series for Flashpoint, then looked at the creative teams, I instantly narrowed it down to maybe two or three that I would be interested in, because I either didn't know or don't care for the writers on the others.

 

[KidDork]

I'm so happy to see that Gillen and McKelvie are on a book together again. I'm lovin' Generation Hope so far. This month was pretty bad ass, Hope took down the ice queen proper.

I picked this up from the love being shown to it here. Thank you again, GAF. What I loved most about this? It was just character interaction through dialogue providing the drama.

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The scene between Hope and Emma was awesome, and I especially loved the scene where Hope just blows in and confronts Scott with her demands, and when she finishes, he looks at her and says "As I was about to say, thanks for dropping in, Hope. I was hoping we could have a real chat. My turn?"

Argh! Not anything X-book on my pull list! Keep pulling me back in, etc.

 

[favouriteflavour]

Xombi had a very enjoyable first issue. Quite light hearted which was unexpected.

 

[Mistouze]

Just received my Grant Morrison : Talking with Gods DVD. Contrary to what the amazon listing says, it's region free!

Region 0 = Region AWESOME

 

[TheAtomicPile]

Talking with Gods was pretty good, but sometimes I simply cannot understand what the fuck Grant Morrison is saying. Probably didn't help that I was munching on chips though the whole thing.

I kind of wish he talked more about some of his comics other then Invisibles, especially Animal Man and Doom Patrol. What's there is interesting though, so I guess it's not too much of a loss.

It was cool to see how much of himself he puts into his work. I'm sure no other comic writer even comes close to that kind of genuine emotion and experience in their storytelling.