PUNISHER MAX X-MAS SPECIAL 2008
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Size: pages
Price: 3.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Ah nothing says Christmas like a bunch of babies being slaughtered.
I have been hoping for months now that Jason Aaron would get a chance to write a Punisher story. Here, we have the annual Punisher X-Mas story and Aaron was given full control to write a story. So instead of wasting his talents on Black Panther or Ghost Rider (both which are good, but still) he can go all out like he does with Scapled in this one-shot. He doesnt disappoint, let's see the body count shall we?: A lot of dead mobsters, some pimps, a pregnaut lady, and as mentioned above....12 babies....Yes when we got to that one panel where the mobster does that deed of killing the newborn babies, that was horrifying. It's just as horrifying as the zombie eating babies from Remender's 'Crawlspace XXX Zombie' series. Overall the story is very well done and having Punisher go through the navity story is pretty damn clever. Punisher can be a one trick pony at times, but here Aaron is making good use of a character and making a nice twist with the story.
I was hoping Chris Bachelo was doing the full art, after seeing the great cover. Sadly, we're gonna have to deal with Roland Boschi....which isnt a bad thing cause the art is great here. Great detail in the backgrounds and the faces are done nicely to make sure not one face looks the same. The action is fast paced and Boschi goes all out with the gore. There are a couple of times where the teeth seem to like 'pop out' of the mouths. The grinning got creepy and it wasnt ment to be. Overall it was good though.
So let's hope this is a first attempt by Aaron to get on a Punisher book. He would be perfect to take over the MAX series when Swierzynski (CABLE) is done with his arc on the title. Aaron definitely shows that he can write Punisher, just like how he can write any other B or C level hero in the Marvel Universe.
Art: 4 - Very Good
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