Punisher War Journal #25
Review by RoiVampire:
WRITER: RICK REMENDER & MATT FRACTION
PENCILS: HOWARD CHAYKIN
INKS: HOWARD CHAYKIN
COLORED BY: STUDIO F - EDGAR DELGADO
COVER BY: CLINT LANGLEY
Price: $3.99
When I got back into comics around 2000 it was Garth Ennis writing The Punisher that really hooked me. Frank Castle is a hard character for most writers to grasp and until Fraction began his run on War Journal I figured Ennis was the only writer at Marvel who was capable of handling the character. Fraction proved me wrong.
His interpretation of Castle borrowed from the original roots of the character but also had the dark humor of the Knights series Ennis began. Frank loved his job and his job was killing bad men.
These last 25 issues of War Journal have been phenomenal and this was the perfect way to end the series. It tied up all the loose ends and perfectly set-up the new series Remender is launching. It’s great to see Chaykin working on a book at the Big Two and I can’t think of a bad panel or page in this huge, huge issue.
In closing I would like to say to Fraction, Remender, Chaykin and all the other artists who worked on this title, thank you.
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Avg Rating: 3.3
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i actually dropped this book because of Chaykin's artwork, but since its ending in a few issues, i might pick it up til the end, despite chaykin piss-poor artwork (he was decent on War is Hell, tho)
Posted by mikeandzod21 on 11/20/08 at 09:45 PM
Love Chaykin.
Posted by conor on 11/21/08 at 09:41 PM
@conor thank you sir, he might not be for everyone but he is up there for me in terms of storytelling and action. When punches start flying in this book you can feel it.
Posted by RoiVampire on 11/23/08 at 09:29 PM
I disagree with you on the art. It get a 2 at best, simply because Chaykins is on my list of really bad artist. Now, maybe his style was good, some time ago. But now, ugh, it just ugly.
Posted by JoeCom on 11/20/08 at 05:32 PM