Punisher: Suicide Run

Great item and arrived on time

Collecting 'Punisher' # 85-88, 'Punisher War Journal' # 61-64, and 'Punisher Warzone' # 23-25, and written by Steven Grant, Chuck Dixon and Larry Hama.Frank Castle - 'the Punisher' - is dead after an extravagant hit on a collected group of organised crime bosses in a skyscraper results in the destruction of the entire building and everyone inside, including apparantly the murderous vigilante himself whos crushed body is pulled from the rubble.This creates a vaccuum in the vigilante community which prompts a whole host of killers to lay claim to the Punisher legacy, donning his iconic skull symbol and planning to mete out their own particular brands of lethal justice.This group of Punisher inspired acolytes includes:- Jaded cop Lynn Michaels - the 'lady Punisher' - frustrated at the laws inability to do what must be done to combat the forces that threaten to destroy the society it is sworn to protect.- 'Payback'; an embittered ex-cop with a grudge against Frank Castle.- Slovenly, couch dwelling postal worker and gun-nut Desmond Kline, inspired by the example of Frank Castle to don a hastily made Punisher costume of his own.- Media savvy author Dean Swaybrick - the 'Yuppunisher' - who plans to turn the idea of the Punisher into a profitable business franchise of private security operatives intended to keep the streets safe whilst also lining his own pockets.- The British Punisher-inspired vigilante 'Outlaw'.- Jimmy Pierce, the mobs very own Punisher-inspired enforcer, the skull faced 'Hitman'.This rise in vigilantism also sees the rise of V.I.G.I.L, an anti-vigilante organisation funded by the US government and determined to stamp out the burning embers of the Punishers legacy forever!Theres something of a misconception that the Punisher only became a book worth reading in the mid 2000's when Garth Ennis started to write his Punisher MAX series.Whilst that series deserves all of its many plaudits, its often forgotten that if there was ever a golden age for the Punisher character, it started twenty years earlier, and 'Suicide Run' is very much one of the high points of that era - a story so huge and so important that it required three ongoing Punisher titles to contain it - and has now finally been collected in one concise volume for the first time!As a lifelong Punisher fan, 'Suicide Run' remains even after all of these years one of my very favourite Punisher stories, so much so that even though I still own the original issues this story was published in, I had no hesitation in paying out for this collected edition. Whilst the standard of art does vary wildly throughout the story and sometimes leaves a little to be desired, and its still probably possibly to get the original issues (that are neither especially rare of expensive) for less that the cover price of this volume, this is still an important part of Punisher lore that no fan worthy of the name should be without, and provides a hugely entertaining read!