PUNISHER MAX LITTLE BLACK BOOK
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Size: pages
Price: 3.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
I liked this book a lot ... for the first three quarters of it. The plot isn't too complicated -- the Punisher uses a high class prostitute (is that an oxy moron?) to get close to a gangster by acting as her body guard, then kills him & his crew. The story is more of a character piece on the hooker & how she views the Punisher. She went to Princeton, where I'm guessing her major was "Giving Head Worth Paying For", and she learned that men will bow down to her because of her beauty, and decided that "all men are dogs" and chose to become rich by using her looks (and her vagina).
I liked her character, and I liked how her memories about her father training dogs was her basis for how she thinks of men -- some can be trained & some are too wild, like wolves, and can never be controlled. So, the whole book she is thinking of the Punisher as a wolf, and she is disgusted & shocked at the way he deals with the gangsters, and that was cool to see how a "regular" person would react to the things that the Punisher thinks of on the same level as making himself breakfast. It ends with the Punisher killing the guy he was after (big surprise?), and I was really enjoying the story, and the dark style of art ... and then the book totally went off the rails for me.
After the Punisher shoots the shit out of the gangsters in the packed nightclub & everyone is running for the exits including the hooker, she is confronted by a group of guys who were also fleeing. There was just a heavy gun battle in a club filled with people, so common sense would tell anyone that police are on the way ... right? Well, these guys (who a second ago were stealing a car they wanted to get away so bad) decide raping her out in the open, with cops on the way is a good idea. What the fuck?
I understand this was to set up the big finale of the Punisher coming out to save her, and to continue the "men are dogs or wolves" thing, when he kills all the would-be rapists (who are also "wolves" ... maybe semi-retarded ones?) & the big last page is the Punisher standing amidst thier dead bodies & the hookers final thought "but there are also lions", but the idea of five men being THAT brain dead, was just too much for me to swallow.
This would have been such a cool comic, if not for that one huge mistake.
Art: 4 - Very Good
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You’re right the rape scene was a little unrealistic. They should have just been struggling to get her in to the car to rape her later when the Punisher walks out the building. But I understand why Gischler did that because it’s more dramatic, and you have to suspend realality a little bid to tell a dramatic story in a one-shot sometimes.
Yeah man, I understand that you definitely have to suspend disbelief any time you read comics, watch movies etc., I guess this plot device just felt more out of place to me in a comic set in a more "realistic" world that’s closer to ours than the regular Marvel Universe. And maybe I was just bitter because I was enjoying this comic a lot before the moment where the writer shot logic in the face.
What you said about the struggling to get her into the car would have been a way better idea … and Frank still could have killed them all for that — it’s not like he needs much of a reason, lol.
" After the Punisher shoots the shit out of the gangsters in the packed nightclub & everyone is running for the exits including the hooker, she is confronted by a group of guys who were also fleeing. There was just a heavy gun battle in a club filled with people, so common sense would tell anyone that police are on the way … right? Well, these guys (who a second ago were stealing a car they wanted to get away so bad) decide raping her out in the open, with cops on the way is a good idea. What the fuck? "
Maybe i read a different book, or i’m mis-remembering. but those guys didn’t steal a car to get away, they were leaving the club in their car and She pulled a gun and tried to steal their car to get away herself.
But anyway yeah i agree that it was a little weird with "cops coming" the way they instantly went into rape mode on her… but the circumstances leading up to them getting out of the car seemed believable to me.
Anyway, I enjoyed the book, and I really liked the way her view of men as either wild animals who need to be put down, or easily led pack animals that can be tamed and broken was changed by Frank.