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Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-30 00:37:00

Entry tags:

char: hood/parker robbins, char: microchip/linus lieberman, char: punisher/frank castle, creator: rick remender, creator: tan eng huat, publisher: marvel comics, title: punisher

Punisher #10

The Hood offers to bring back Punisher's family and Microchip's son if he kills G.W. Bridge. Frank refuses, so Microchip shoots Bridge in the head himself.

The Punisher and the Hood battle. The Hood is about to kill Frank, when Frank reveals there's an envelope with Sarah's (the mother of the Hood's child) name in it, and if he doesn't retrieve it it'll be sent to Wilson Fisk. The Hood lets him go.

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	starwolf_oakley 2009-10-30 04:52 am UTC (link)
	Unlike most of the gang over at BLACKEST NIGHT, Frank knows right away that just there are some reanimated corpses moving doesn't mean those "things" are really his family. This is also known as the Whedon Vampire Defense. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-10-30 04:55 am UTC (link)
	We've already seen the Hood bring back Microchip and those villains. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	starwolf_oakley 2009-10-30 05:09 am UTC (link)
	Well, just because they look like Micro and the villains and are inhabiting their corpses doesn't mean they "really are" Micro and the villains. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-10-30 08:56 am UTC (link)
	Ok, I sent Remender an e-mail asking "When the Hood resurrects people, is he really bringing them back to life? Or is there like a catch, like they have no soul or something?", and he responded "Black magic. No way to know." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ex_darkblade992 2009-10-30 05:11 am UTC (link)
	A bit of irony hits when you remember Frank is going to become a reanimated corpse next month. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lbd_nytetrayn 2009-10-30 05:36 am UTC (link)
	Wait, what's this, then? I think I missed a solicit... --LBD "Nytetrayn" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-10-30 05:40 am UTC (link)
	http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/988692.html#cutid1 (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foxhack 2009-10-30 04:57 am UTC (link)
	NOOOOOOOOOO MICRO WHY DID THEY DO THIS TO YOU T_T (Reply to this)

	zechs27 2009-10-30 05:11 am UTC (link)
	So is Micro dead again? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-10-30 05:15 am UTC (link)
	No, he's still alive. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mooppoom 2009-10-30 05:39 am UTC (link)
	The more I see of The Punisher the less I like him. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	scottyquick 2009-10-30 12:37 pm UTC (link)
	Motto. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	taggerung301 2009-10-30 09:55 pm UTC (link)
	Frank torching zombies doesn't really seem like one of the worst things that he has ever done (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ex_darkblade992 2009-10-30 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	They weren't zombies though. It was his actually ressurected family he just burnt alive. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	geoffsebesta 2009-11-02 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	+1 (Reply to this) (Parent)

	damar148 2009-10-30 06:52 am UTC (link)
	When the villain goes 'WTF!', you know Frank gone too far. (Reply to this)

	iondan 2009-10-30 08:01 am UTC (link)
	Look at his face he's horrified, I'm to give Frank the benefit of the doubt here since we don't see his family's full faces, I envision them as having soulless black pet cemetery-esqe eyes. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-10-30 08:20 am UTC (link)
	Except none of the other people Hood resurrected looked like that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iondan 2009-10-30 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	have they been themselves or do they get reversed Lazarus pit personalities? And hasn't The Hood's source of magic changed recently? Regardless though there has never been any doubt in my mind that Frank is crazy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

xdoop
2009-10-30 11:51 pm UTC (link)

have they been themselves or do they get reversed Lazarus pit personalities? And hasn't The Hood's source of magic changed recently? Regardless though there has never been any doubt in my mind that Frank is crazy.

No, I don't think their personalities have changed.

Remender said he wanted it to be ambiguous as to why he killed his family.

"It seemed important to me that readers draw their own conclusions for why Frank did what he did. Did he force Firebrand to end his family because he knew they were full of evil thanks to the Hood's magics? Or did he have them incinerated because he no longer felt he could be part of their world?"

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	iondan 2009-10-31 12:22 am UTC (link)
	I'd say that was an excellent call, too bad we probably won't get to dig deeper into Frank's psyche now that he's been sushi'ed (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hybrid2 2009-10-30 08:21 am UTC (link)
	WTF??? Those where'nt reanimated corpse that was is resurected familly!! Hate the idea of The Hood bringing people back to life.but come on! I hate the way the Punisher have been write now. (Reply to this)

	salamangkiero 2009-10-30 08:34 am UTC (link)
	You know Punisher is going down the tubes when he's getting older in style than Mack Bolan/Executioner, The Penetrator, Destroyer, and all those other "Post-modern" pulps. (Reply to this)

	johnzdrake 2009-10-30 11:45 am UTC (link)
	While I am not especially enamored of the direction Punisher has been going in, I have to admit that Frank torching his family -- to the appalled shock of the villain -- is brilliant. (Reply to this)

	seems in character (Anonymous) 2009-10-30 12:45 pm UTC (link)
	This doesn't seem too out of character for me. The Punisher is nuts. Crazy as a coconut. I'd say, at this point, he's more obsessed with the idea of his family than he is having them back. I don't like this (reminds me of the awful WAR ZONE movie), but it is Frank. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: seems in character vitruvian23 2009-10-30 02:34 pm UTC (link)
	If one supposes, even for a moment, that the folks the Hood is bringing back to life are actually those folks and not just soulless zombies... then Frank is over as a character. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dcanacek 2009-10-30 03:47 pm UTC (link)
	To paraphrase Rorscharch "Never compromise. Even in the face of Ressurection." Okay, about the Hood, when are they going to let the real Tigra castrate, eviscerate and then defenestrate this jackass? (Reply to this)

	mullon 2009-10-30 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	What, no MY FAMILY IS DEEEEEAAAAAADDDDD!!!! jokes? (Reply to this)

	espanolbot 2009-10-30 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	Frank said that when he was briefly a Spectre-ish Heaven-empowered thingamajig, he saw that his family were in Paradise. Can't really blame him for wanting them to stay there, considering what the Marvel Universe is like from Frank's perspective. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ex_darkblade992 2009-10-30 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	Is that whole agent of Heaven thing still canon? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-10-30 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	Hm, Ennis referenced it in the first Marvel Knights storyline, and that itself got referenced recently. So I guess so, yeah. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	janegray 2009-10-30 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	Well, that was just stupid. It's comics, of course people can be brought back to life. Frank should have been glad and welcomed them back. (Reply to this)

	goblinthebamf 2009-10-30 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	The Hood offers to bring back Punisher's family and Microchip's son if he kills G.W. Bridge. Frank refuses, so Microchip shoots Bridge in the head himself. ...ugh. on the plus side, Frank's horrified expression made me giggle. (Reply to this)