Dark Reign List Punisher One Shot
Frank Castle has disabled much of Norman Osborn's criminal underground, tarnished his well-groomed public image and attempted to assassinate him. Today Osborn returns the favor. With Frank still torn apart from his battle with the Hood, Osborn dedicates himself and every single HAMMER resource to one goal: killing The Punisher. To make sure they don't fail, The Dark Avengers are going with them. Somebody has to die. Somebody will. Legendary artist John Romita Jr. returns to The Punisher, joined by regular series writer Rick Remender for this, the most ferocious battle of Frank Castle's life. Plus, a preview of the next exciting chapter of the Punisher.
WRITER: Rick Remender
PENCILS: John Romita Jr.
INKS: Klaus Janson
COLORED BY: Dean White
COVER BY: John Romita Jr.
Price: $3.99
iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 3.9%
Reviews
| User | Added | Spoilers | |
| SoylentGL | 11/02/09 | Yes | Read Review |
| changingshades | 10/30/09 | Yes | Read Review |
Comments
Romita Jr and Punisher go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly.
You can't go wrong with it.
Posted by TheNextChampion on 10/26/09 at 03:38 PMThe Remender talksplode sold me on this...
Posted by cutty on 10/26/09 at 03:47 PM@TNC agreed. it's been too long
Posted by RoiVampire on 10/26/09 at 04:16 PM@Cutty- The talksplode sold me on this as well. I didn't even try the first issue of this series, but with Tony Moore starting on the book soon I think I might hop on with this issue. JRJR doesn't hurt either.
Posted by Ruo21 on 10/26/09 at 04:21 PMDaken's gonna dice up Frank into Frankencastle!
Posted by rockingeek on 10/26/09 at 04:54 PMyay! some Remender Punisher with good art to balance out #10.
Posted by skeets on 10/26/09 at 05:17 PMRemender promotes the shit out of his books on verious podcasts
But just remember how lame the End League and Gigantic were
Posted by edward on 10/26/09 at 07:46 PMI'm not sure if I want to pick this up with that 4 buck price tag. even more so if they just as a re-print of some old punisher comic in the back, so they have a reason to make it 4 bucks.
Posted by JoeCom on 10/26/09 at 07:53 PMEnd League was/is amazing.
Posted by skeets on 10/26/09 at 08:35 PM@skeets: let's agree to disagree. Rememder is a little hit and miss for me personally.
Posted by edward on 10/26/09 at 08:45 PMI'll agree with that. End League was one of the hits for me though. Punisher has been all hit so far as well.
Posted by skeets on 10/26/09 at 09:50 PM@ Edward- Fear Agent is one of the best series to come out over the past couple years, don't just focus on the bad.
Posted by Ruo21 on 10/27/09 at 02:08 PM@Ruo - Fear Agent is one of my favorites of the past decade. The problem is that I haven't read anything else of Remender that I've liked.
Posted by cutty on 10/27/09 at 04:48 PM@Ruo21: Fear Agent diffinately is the best of rememder's title. But i'm not going to jump on the band wagon and gush uncontrollablely
Posted by edward on 10/27/09 at 08:00 PMDiced!
Posted by rockingeek on 10/28/09 at 05:49 PMwhen i read that scene all i could hear in my head was the song "stuck in the middle with you"
Posted by peterporker on 10/28/09 at 08:10 PMDude! DUDE! Tony Moore is drawing the next issue of Punisher? I didn't get issues 9 and 10, but I will definitely pick up a Remender/Moore Punisher, even if it is a mid-nineties-esque Frankenstien/Punisher mash-up.
Posted by Andrew on 10/28/09 at 10:13 PMHoly fuck, Frank is fucking dead!
Posted by miyamotofreak on 10/28/09 at 10:34 PMsay what? frank's dead?
Posted by edward on 10/28/09 at 10:50 PMoh no, if frank is dead...whos going to punish bad people ?
Posted by mansuper on 10/28/09 at 11:11 PMFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Posted by skeets on 10/29/09 at 01:22 AMthis was bad ass. Slap-Chop. Can't wait for the upcoming Franken-Castle w/ Tony Moore.
Posted by wayne2001bc on 10/29/09 at 01:32 AMGood thing I don't look at previews, because this was a total surprise to me. THought they would just fight and then something happens and they live to fight another day. But this issue was fucked up.
Posted by cromulent on 10/29/09 at 03:05 AMGuess that the blanket statement that 'Nothing ever happens in these side books' does not apply here. AT ALL.
This was a fun read, and I am glad that I picked it up. First time that I really enjoyed the bastard son of Wolvie.
Posted by MisterJ on 10/29/09 at 11:53 AMImpressive, I'll say that.
Posted by KickAss on 10/29/09 at 04:07 PMThis book's haunting me. Got to finish my stack before declaring POW. Frank's inner monologue didn't do anything for me, but I really loved seeing a sky full of Goblin Gliders. I'm not sure if it's fair to judge this comic on the preview for Franken-Castle, but seeing the little, green ghouls made me like this issue all the moore.
Posted by PymSlap on 10/29/09 at 04:45 PMthe preview for the next issue had man thing, does that take place before the issue of dark avengers were aries cuts him in half?
Posted by peterporker on 10/29/09 at 07:41 PMI haven't read all my books yet, but holy shit. This is my POTW unless something else just totally blows me away. Great issue!!!!
Posted by vadamowens on 10/29/09 at 08:54 PMBubba chomp? What just happened? Awesome.
Posted by VelcroKing on 10/29/09 at 08:55 PM@Peterporker:does it really matter?
Posted by edward on 10/29/09 at 10:05 PMMy 2nd best comic of the week. what really sold me was John Romita Jr's art. LOVE it. because of this im gunna have to get the franken-castle issues
Posted by mansuper on 10/29/09 at 11:35 PMNow that's how you write a fight scene. Great issue
Posted by cutty on 10/30/09 at 10:14 AMWell, that was interesting.
Posted by Jim on 10/30/09 at 05:49 PMGoing from Punisher MAX to this is the weirdest transition ever. Franken-Castle?!
Posted by ProjectX2 on 10/30/09 at 11:28 PM@PeterPorker: I'mma assume that Manthing is like Swampthing (heh) in that he is totally able to reconstruct himself and escape capture. Or not, maybe it does take place before that Dark Avengers issue, but it was barely a subplot so I also ask if it matters at all.
This was pretty Ballsy of Marvel to let Remender go this route. I hope we don't get dumb-ass frank castle. I'm not down with that.
Posted by Mangaman on 10/31/09 at 12:50 AMjust wanted to know why norman thought it MATTERED enough to have him killed, now its making sense thats all
Posted by peterporker on 10/31/09 at 07:43 PMHated this with a passion, the writing anyway. The art was heaven to my peepers.
Posted by Luke on 11/01/09 at 04:20 AMFINALLY--a "The List" were something substantial actually happens!
The other "The List" books have been pretty lame so far--in terms of showing what would happen if the most powerful person in the world devoted all of his resources/cunning/skill to hunting down his enemies (The 'X-Men' were attacked by a giant fish monster--cool, but not a game changer; and the Hulk was attacked by Ms. Marvel.... hmmm. Maybe Skaar will take him out eventually, but it didna happen in that issue!)
Kudos to Remender for writing something that actaully reflects what might happen if one man was hunted by a dictator with superpowered cronies.
Posted by WoodenSpoonVersusShiv on 11/01/09 at 10:25 AM
The preview at the end made this book for me. Love those guest stars.
Posted by Mithel on 11/01/09 at 04:43 PMThis was my favourite book last week. A bit of a shock Marvel's pushing Daken to the point where they had him take out the Punisher. I'm looking forward to a story for a rematch someday soon.
Posted by VicDeZen on 11/02/09 at 11:51 AM





From everything I've heard this looks to be a game changer for Frank. Can't wait
Posted by RoiVampire on 10/26/09 at 03:30 PM