EXCLUSIVE: "Punisher" #55 Preview

[andy khouri]

Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you an exclusive preview of "The Punisher" #55 by Garth Ennis and Goran Parlov, beginning the final arc of Ennis' classic run on the MAX series.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=12854

[NDHorse]

How long is this arc going to last? The usual 6 issues or less?

[Bosch Fawstin]

The best team working in comics today, I don't know how the hell Marvel's going to keep the Punisher as hard and entertaining as it's been since the MAX series began, which has allowed Ennis to be fully Ennis. And Goran Parlov.....can he get any better? Yeah, as he's proven story after story. This should be good.

Incoming: THE INFIDEL/PIGMAN (http://fawstin.blogspot.com/)

[JoshuaCee]

How long is this arc going to last? The usual 6 issues or less?

I think six. Ennis is done with #60, right?

Also, Parlov draws a great Frank Castle.

[Arsh]

This one... is gonna be epic.

Ennis has been my favourite Punisher writer, and Goran Parlov's art has really grown on me.

I cannot wait.

[brundlefly]

Man, I'm really going to miss this book when this last arc is over. Ennis singlehandedly rescued the Punisher from limbo and his MAX title is the best that the Punisher's ever been written. Between this and Cable & Deadpool ending, my Marvel pull list is getting ever-shorter.

If that guy from HBO's Entourage (the one who wrote the mediocre Punisher MAX Annual) ends up being the new writer for this book after Ennis leaves, then I'm dropping it like a stone. But the recent MAX vs PWJ thread tossed out some other possibilites, like Brian Azzarello and Jason Aaron. I'd definitely stick with the book for either of those two guys, even though it still won't be the same Punisher MAX without Garth around.

[JoshuaCee]

If Jason Aaron took over Punisher MAX, I'd buy five copies of every issue.

[Bruce Edwards]

I like Azzarello, but for these hard-nosed crime stories with a military background I reckon Brubaker could nail it as well as Ennis. (Given Brubaker comes from a military background and loves writing himself some crime).

Of course, he's busy with Cap and his own 'Criminal' series, so I doubt he would be able to slot it in.

[JoshuaCee]

Jason Aaron FTW.

[prodigy]

They serously need to give Goran Parlov the boot. One of the worst artists ever.

It looks like a (very) poor man's Beavis and Butthead. I can't stand it.

Garth Ennis is a better artist than Goran.

[JoshuaCee]

So wait...you don't like Parlov or Lark, right? What other artists are you not enjoying?

[prodigy]

So wait...you don't like Parlov or Lark, right? What other artists are you not enjoying?
-Romita
-Romita
-Romita
-Romita
-Humberto Ramos
-Cheung (why does everybody have the same head?)
-Bachalo on X-Men 207
-Leinel Yu (occasionally)
-The people behind this volume's Captain America (I can't tell if it's a bad colorist or a bad artist).
-Gulacy
-Steve Dillon
-Romita

Eh... It'd be easier for me to say what art SHOULD look like.

Like... Alex Ross, Gabriele Dell'Otto, Clayton Crain, Phil Jiminez, whoever's doing Trials Of Shazam, Ariel Olivetti, Bryan Hitch, David Finch, Dave Wilkins, Silvestri, Marko Djurdjevic, Nic Klein, Salvador Larocca, Brian Stelfreeze, Greg Land etc.