Punisher #8: Just Living is Not Enough…

Art: I’d like to take the time to once again chuckle at how not only does Frank on the cover not look like Frank inside, but he’s out doing things inside Frank can’t be doing at all. It really does seem like there’s another Frank (not Jigsaw) out there, having his own adventures in Bagalia, completely autonomous of what inside Frank is up to. I’d kind of like to read that story too. For the rest, the quality seems to dip after the takeover planning meeting scene was done, but that’s understandable. It really was just one Ocean’s 11-esque expositional panel after another, showing how the takeover was enacted; taking us from A to B may have been monotonous work. I know I said I wouldn’t, but I am still really taking issue with how Frank’s face/head continues to be so off-model, I’m not even sure what the model is supposed to be anymore.

Writing: This issue was a chance to storyboard an action movie sequence for Frank, it must have been fun to write. Frank has always been insidiously clever, but now he’s interacting with other people and getting his mind right after weeks of nothing but isolation and agony. All of which is very bad news for Zemo!