I've been reading novels for the past two weeks. I'll be returning the single issues next week.
Punisher Max: Homeless
The fourth installment of Jason Aaron's epic picks up with Frank Castle escaping Rikers Island and roaming the streets of New York. Homeless and weaponless Castle starts to rebuild himself to take one last charge at The Kingpin.
Aaron's Punisher Max reads like a Marvel version The Dark Knight Returns. Castle has aged in real time so the readers are looking at a sixty year old man waging war on crime. In reality Frank Castle won't be able to do this forever which is the theme that runs throughout these books. We are introduced to Aaron's version of Electra and from her first scene I was pretty sure that Frank and met his match.
While The Punisher has always been a realistic, street-level hero Aaron takes it to the extreme. He humanizes Castle in a way that even Garth Ennis couldn't and pulls the curtain back on all the pain in Frank's past in a new and interesting way. While Welcome Back Frank is a classic, Jason Aaron is telling the quintessential story of Marvel's gun totting anti-hero-$
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