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The year is 1971. With mounting casualties and a rising anti-war sentiment, America's time in Vietnam is coming to a close. Yet in the isolated Valley Forge Firebase on the Cambodian border, Captain Frank Castle is one of the few soldiers still committed to the fight against the enemy. With dwindling reserves, Castle must stand against an impending Viet Cong attack that threatens to wipe out the entire American platoon. To survive the battle, what grim decision must he make that will forever alter the course of his life? In this acclaimed tale, superstar Garth Ennis reveals the never-before-told story of the horrors Castle was forced to face to come home fromVietnam alive, ending in a shocking twist that will forever change how readers see Marvel Comics' most famous urban vigilante. Collecting BORN #1-4.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
ENNIS = PUNISHER,
By Mortimerman (Toronto, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Punisher: Born (Paperback)
An engaging take on the brutal origins of Frank Castle aka The Punisher. Darrick Robertson's art of the Vietnam firefight scenes and throughout this short 4 story read, is more than explosive to the eyes. Truly, once again, Garth Ennis has proven to the World that the bar he raised with his run on the Punisher is now so high it is almost unattainable. The one-shot 'Born' practically belongs as a beginning to Ennis' Punisher Max run (Highly Recommended). Once again, IF you can find the HC version, get it.
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A Fitting Beginning For The Monster we now Know,
By The Skull (North Bay, ON CAN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Punisher: Born (Paperback)
Let me just say that I really got into collecting punisher comics after the 2004 The Punisher movie. Now this is funny because the movie definitely wasn't a huge hit but being 13 I didn't care then. I started simple by buying just random punisher comics. I got to know his backstory in a matter of weeks and then I saw it. In my local comic store I saw issue #1 of the unlimited series. Quickly I spent the $15 that it cost. After I read it I looked for the newest series of punisher comics. It was the MAX series. So I bought the first volume. Then I heard about BORN. I bought it without thinking twice. I got to say this was impressive.The book had everything , and allowed you to share the pain with all these excellent and diverse characters. The book is broken up into four days. The story is told by an enlisted man named Stevie Goodwin, he is part of Frank Castle's platoon. THe story is set in 1971 at a place FireBase Valley Forge. It is the last outpost watching the Cambodian border during Vietnam. Through great story telling by Garth Ennis (my alltimne favourite punisher storyteller)and a great art to match. This is a must for Punisher fans and a great starting point for people new to graphic novels.
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*Shudder*... The birth of monster...,
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This review is from: Punisher: Born (Paperback)
This is the series that actually turned me into a huge fan of the Punisher, a character who I previously considered to be juvenile, one-note, macho, ridiculous, etc. But after Garth Ennis' internsely compelling 'Born', no more!In Born, Ennis has realized and fleshed out the terrifying possibilities that the deceptively simple character of the Punisher represents. This story reveals like few have before that Frank Castle is in fact a monster. A tragic, sympathetic, and fascinating monster perhaps, but a terrifying monster nonetheless. He is no mere vigilante, and certainly no hero. He is a character who embraces and revels in violence and death as few humans can even begin to understand, and this is what makes him an interesting character. Frank Castle has no real appreciation or understanding of life, and ironically is only closest to feeling 'alive' when he is totally immersed in death. For the first time, in Born, this simple truth of the character was finally explored without any moral, 'heroic', or even comedic limitations which plagued so much of the earlier representations of the Punisher, and it is scripted to utter perfection by Ennis. The final moments of this miniseries, where Frank finally makes his 'choice,' has got to be one of the most creepy and devastating moments in mainstream comic book history. It may be counter-intuitive to any normal person, but makes all too much sense given what we already should know about the character. Needless to say, to any reader with a taste for the macabre and an interest in the nature of Humanity's darker impulses, a story told as well as this one is is bound to fascinate and entertain. And as a bonus to Punisher fans, Born is the perfect tie-in and intro to the direction Ennis wisely took the series when it was bumped to the Max imprint. For proof, just see how Ennis was courageous enough to take his grim vision of the character and his world to the only logical conclusion in Punisher: the End.
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