just look at the title and the creative team… nuff said really. I have a feeling that this title will REALLY earn the Max label so if you like your comic book violence with more blood-guts-n-gore and less cartoon anvils, this is for you.
An all-new ongoing series from the acclaimed team of Jason Aaron (WOLVERINE: WEAPON X) and Steve Dillon (PUNISHER: WELCOME BACK FRANK, PREACHER), two guys who were born to tell the exploits of Marvel’s most brutal vigilante. Wilson Fisk is a bodyguard for mob boss Don Rigoletto, but he has his eyes on a much bigger prize, and he’s gonna use Frank Castle to help him realize his dreams.
The biggest story in MAX history begins here, as we witness the birth of the greatest villain the Punisher has ever faced.
According to ComicsContinuum, Hasbro’s Marvel Legends: Nemesis Build-a-Figure Wave, is apparently due Wal-Mart stores this month – YAY!!!! Finally a Tigra to complete my Avengers display! Now if I could only get them to release that classic John Byrne era Storm (that they cruelly teased us with before giving us AoA Sunfire instead) to finish off my Marvel Legends X-Men. If anyone sees an extra Tigra – let me know, as there are no Wal-marts in the San Francisco city limits so I have to resort to ebay toy scalpers.
In addition to the 6-piece build-a-figure Nemesis (1 part per figure – but you don’t have to buy the varients too if you don’t want to – unlike previous non Hasbro ML series), the wave includes Astonishing X-Men Beast, Black Bolt, First Appearance Daredevil, Daredevil, Nova, Tigra, Punisher and Camouflage Punisher.
The latest Punisher movie may suck, but Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s return to the character looks to be just as bizarre, entertaining and possibly even more disturbing than their original run.
“THE RESURRECTION OF MA GNUCCI,” PART 1 The latest offering from the red-hot Marvel Knights line is a weekly-shipping 6-part limited sequel to their legendary story arc, “Welcome Back, Frank.” It all starts when two mobsters take a trip to the zoo and piss off the wrong monkey. Limbs are lost (the kind you can’t easily replace), vultures are fed (with said appendages), and then things get, like, really crazy. Like back-from-the-dead crazy. That’s right — she’s back and she wants payback. Ma Gnucci. Eighty-five pounds of hairless, armless, legless evil.
I bet it will be a lot better than Punisher War Zone the movie – which opened abysmally, coming in at #8 over the weekend with a mere 4 Million.
Newsarama explains the poor reception to the following…
the weekend after Thanksgiving is traditionally a soft box office weekend, the movie had no bankable stars, and War Zone suffered from nearly unanimous poor reviews from critics, scoring only a 17% (4/10) on Rotten Tomatoes.com which averaged 65 reviews.
But fails to mention that there have been 2 other Punisher movies before and neither of them was all that big a hit either. Even if you follow a bad movie with a good one (Hulk and The Incredible Hulk for example) the first movie will put off viewers. I kind of liked the last Punisher movie (with Tom Jane), but the first one (with Dolph Lungren) was laughable. The previews for Punisher War Zone didn’t really impress me.
