Punisher 2

[Klaus]

Do precisely what?

Why the JLA didn't rebuild Gotham in a week at the beginning of No Man's Land. I don't know if it was in a Batman comic of a JLA comic.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Why the JLA didn't rebuild Gotham in a week at the beginning of No Man's Land. I don't know if it was in a Batman comic of a JLA comic.

To be honest I probably have the comics, and the answer, somewhere but I'm not sure where to begin searching for the answer… :\

Maybe someone else will.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

On the Subject of Ennis. He's a one trick pony and a pretty poor writer. He got this cult around him based off Preacher, which by about issue 20 had pretty much ran into the ground, and I don't think had enough ideas to support more than a 12 issue series. He's like a kid who just learned to curse, so in most of his comics I've read, every other word is f**k, and he keeps trying to be as shocking as possible. "Oh look at this tired cliche bash on the church! Isn't Ennis so edgy!" He had Nick Fury disembowel someone then strangle them with their intestines. Give me a break, that is beyond stupid. Anyway, I think basing any character off the way Ennis wrote them is a bad idea.

 

[Felon]

He's like a kid who just learned to curse, so in most of his comics I've read, every other word is f**k, and he keeps trying to be as shocking as possible. "Oh look at this tired cliche bash on the church! Isn't Ennis so edgy!"

I'll see your Ennis's F-bombs and church-bashing, and raise you Warren Elllis inseerting "WANKER" every other line and his non-stop United-States-bashing.

 

[Dark Jezter]

On the Subject of Ennis. He's a one trick pony and a pretty poor writer. He got this cult around him based off Preacher, which by about issue 20 had pretty much ran into the ground, and I don't think had enough ideas to support more than a 12 issue series. He's like a kid who just learned to curse, so in most of his comics I've read, every other word is f**k, and he keeps trying to be as shocking as possible. "Oh look at this tired cliche bash on the church! Isn't Ennis so edgy!" He had Nick Fury disembowel someone then strangle them with their intestines. Give me a break, that is beyond stupid. Anyway, I think basing any character off the way Ennis wrote them is a bad idea.

Really? I've enjoyed the heck out of the Ennis Punisher comics. The Ennis version of the Punisher was inspired by the heroes (or antiheroes, rather) from movies like Dirty Harry and Death Wish, which incidentilly happen to be a couple of my favorite movies from the 1970s. Ennis also took away the sidekicks and high-tech gadgets that had been part of the Punisher for years prior and returned him to his roots: a one-man army with an endless supply of weapons and a single-minded obsession with killing every piece of criminal trash he could find.

The Ennis version of the Punisher also has the good sense not to take itself too seriously, and included some really funny moments that actually made me laugh out loud, something I don't do often with comic books.

 

[Felon]

Ennis also took away the sidekicks and high-tech gadgets that had been part of the Punisher for years prior and returned him to his roots: a one-man army with an endless supply of weapons and a single-minded obsession with killing every piece of criminal trash he could find.

Yeah, it was a very back-to-the-basics approach. My biggest complaint there is that he portrays Frank as sort of a second-rate hand-to-hand combatant. The Punisher of yesteryear was extremely deadly in a close fight, easily in Daredevil or Elektra's league.

The Ennis version of the Punisher also has the good sense not to take itself too seriously, and included some really funny moments that actually made me laugh out loud, something I don't do often with comic books.

Yes, Ennis has a grand flair for dark humor. Using the animals in the Bronx zoo as weapons was perfect. I don't want to keep buying a book that's mood never changes from being dark and morose. Who does?

 

[Dark Jezter]

Oh, here's a bit of new Punisher-related info that was at AICN a while back concerning a Punisher Director's Cut DVD...

I also got a chance to talk to Tim Bradstreet (the punisher cover artist, and the guy who did all the movie posters for the movie). He was full of info on the Punisher movie, and it's sequel. Apparently there is work being done right now on a director's cut DVD. This was the first time I had heard anything about this. The DVD will add a few subplots that were cut out. One of these includes Stuff of Frank Castle in the war. I guess none of the footage was shot for this (there wasn’t time) so they are filming the actors on a green screen and are going to come up with some sort of animation / live action hybrid or something like that. The footage is supposed to blend in with the opening credits. Also Tim was showing off the early Punisher 2 poster, the poster was just a torso shot of the Punisher holding guns in each hand, with a 2 at the bottom of the page. Very simple and very effective...Tim also said that work should get started on the sequel soon, and that the director of the first one is working hard on the script for the second one right now.

Sounds interesting. In the featurettes on the current DVD version, the director mentioned that over 30 minutes worth of deleted scenes were cut out, most of which were part of a subplot concerning Frank and his buddy from the FBI. It could definately be worth checking out.