Frank Castle’s Back and Ready to Kill as the Punisher Once More

in the beginning this twelvemonth , we gotFrank Castleback on our TVs , and now it ’s time for the Punisher to make a reappearance to comic strip , too .

Marvel ’s accelerator - tote up antihero is come back to the varlet inPunisher : Red Band , a five - proceeds miniseries fromBen Percy(Wolverine ) and Julius Ohta ( Iron Man).The last clock time we saw Frank was back in 2023 when hetook control of the Handninja fad , find out his wife wasalive and wanted a divorce , and was later transport to Weirdworld . This novel comic sees Frank back in New York without any memories of his past life , but still good at carry life , so that ’s what he ’s gon na do . Much like his video vis-a-vis , this Frank is gon na get up to some crashing material , and his miniseries comes with a “ Red Band ” label to stand for it ’s get more denotative contentedness than usual .

“ Frank Castle is one of my all - time favorite characters , andPunisheris a series I ’ve been gunning to save for a long , farsighted fourth dimension , ” wrotePercy . “ I ’m going to lean in fully and push the very limits of my favorite writing style : hirsute psychopaths . This is going to be as gritty and bloody as it gets . Street - tier havoc awaits you . ”

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Marvel has often seemed unsettled about what to do with Frank . Some of that was owed to his Netflix series and the timing of a hard armed vigilance man in a show air week or month aftermass shootings ; other sentence , it was because of how police hadco - opted his symboland used it to dress their vehicles . Daredevil : bear Againconfronted that latter stop during its first season by having Frank kill a bunch of Punisher pig and telling them they suck .

We ’ll see what comic strip Frank does whenPunisher : Red Bandbegins September 10 .

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