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proteus_lives (proteus_lives) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-29 05:21:00

Current location:	Outer Dark
Entry tags:	char: punisher/frank castle, creator: garth ennis, creator: tom mandrake, publisher: marvel comics, series: punisher week, title: punisher

The Punisher and the Social Worker
Greetings True Believers! Well, I'm still trying to get a Punisher Week started, come on people! Show Frank some love!

In keeping with the theme of the week, I'm going scans of Frank interacting with a liberal social worker named Jen. It's from the story arc, "Hidden" in the trade paperback, "Full Auto"

There is some interesting interaction between Frank and a normal person in the Marvel MU.

Jen is helping the homeless when she and a friend go underground to investigate some rumors. A certain vigilante is also in the tunnels that day.....

Jen and her friend Paul are investigating rumors about murder and money in the underground. (Long story short: Crazy guy is paying homeless people to kill other homeless people so he can live under a pile of corpses.)

She's set upon by a group of homeless and then Frank enters the picture.

Ha, Frank is so great delivering dead-pan lines.

Frank and Jen attempt to find their way to the topside and it is obivous that their philosophies don't mix.

They get ambushed again and separated. Jen runs deeper into the tunnels where she happens upon the crazy guy's dead-person lair. Frank fights his way to the topside and re-arms. He runs into Jen again.

Frank does have a point and he shuts her down....for a moment.

There is no room for debate with Frank.

The fight begins and during the course of it, Jen's word have a small effect on Frank.

The fight ends, Jen's friend has been killed by the homeless and she attacks crazy guy. Frank kills crazy guy and burns his plague-pit at the same time. He returns with Jen to the surface. They share a final moment.

I do like Frank's machine-like caring about civilians. Jen would show up again during the Slavers arc.

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	va1tyr 2009-10-29 10:39 am UTC (link)
	Hey, don't talk to me like I'm some kind of liberal caricature, okay? Now why would anyone do that? Also, she spends the first half explaining that extreme circumstances can lead people to do terrible things, and then seems totally shocked that... extreme circumstances lead people to do terrible things. sigh (Reply to this) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-10-29 02:50 pm UTC (link)
	Speaking as a social worker, this makes sense. It's one thing to know it but it shocks me every time I see bad things in my line of work happen. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

(Anonymous)
2009-10-29 09:25 pm UTC (link)

I suppose that's what they were going for, but based on the dialogue she first uttered for her (understandably) hysterical reaction to the Punisher, it sounds like the writer was either clumsy in portraying the character or was taking a piss. And a lot of her dialogue comes off that way. So it's even hard to take her as an average person who's having trouble coming to terms with the reality she's talking about.

Nice art though. To echo another poster I would like to know who drew this.

-- Adam C.

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	proteus_lives 2009-10-29 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	The art's by Tom Mandrake (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-10-30 04:42 am UTC (link)
	Thanks. I'll have to look his stuff up. :) -- Adam C. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	skalja 2009-10-29 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	Now why would anyone do that? Motto. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-10-29 07:32 pm UTC (link)
	Now why would anyone do that? This. I have seen this issue posted at various communities many times and each time it bugs me more. Why not save time and re-post a rant about Punisher comics, show a panel of Frank stabbing someone in the eye, and finish up with a box saying, 'He sure showed them, right?' (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kingrockwell 2009-10-29 11:26 am UTC (link)
	With all the recent Frank love the past few days, you could easily retroactively tag the posts for Punisher Week. (Reply to this)

	ulf_boehnke 2009-10-29 11:57 am UTC (link)
	I really like the design of the ninth page, where the characters are walking through the splash panel. (Reply to this)

	robogeek 2009-10-29 01:14 pm UTC (link)
	Who did the art? It looks a lot like Tom Mandrake, but a little more cartoony. (Reply to this)

	damar148 2009-10-29 02:11 pm UTC (link)
	I thought only the WWII Cap America comics depicted homeless people as evil and crazy. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glprime 2009-10-29 06:06 pm UTC (link)
	I'd say less "evil" and more "amoral." But I get your point; caricatures abound in this story. (Reply to this) (Parent)