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Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-01 20:26:00

Entry tags:

char: microchip/linus lieberman, char: punisher/frank castle, creator: garth ennis, creator: lewis larosa, nsfw: gore, series: punisher week, title: punisher, title: punisher max

The death of Microchip

This is from The Punisher MAX #1-6. It's written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Lewis Larosa.

In #1, we see Castle massacre a bunch of mafiosos at the 100th birthday party of Don Massimino Cesare.

In #2, Microchip and his group watch on the news about the Punisher attacking more mafiosos at Don Massimino Cesare's funeral.

In #3...

#4...

Meanwhile, the mafia, led by Nicky Cavella, learns about the Punisher's capture and decides to take him out.

In #5...

During the chaos Microchip manages to free Castle.

Later...

The Punisher calls Nicky Cavella and gives him their location. Afterwards, he discovers that Microchip's phone had been bugged, meaning the CIA will be coming to the warehouse as well.

In #6...

In the end, Nicky Cavella manages to escape while everyone else gets taken out (Castle would later brutally murder him after he dug up Castle's family and videotaped himself pissing on them).

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	manofbats 2009-11-02 02:20 am UTC (link)
	Lots of boring preaching going on here. This is why I don't like the Punisher. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	punishermax 2009-11-02 02:52 am UTC (link)
	How is any of that boring preaching. I thought it was called character development and good dialogue. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	manofbats 2009-11-02 03:08 am UTC (link)
	It bored me to the point where I wanted to shoot both of them with a shotgun so that someone would finally do something interesting. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Don't be so quick to judge. nefrekeptah 2009-11-02 07:39 am UTC (link)
	The talky bits here are all the talky bits; the rest of these issues are of Frank gunning people down with a mini-gun and people getting their nuts hacked off and good stuff like that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Don't be so quick to judge. xdoop 2009-11-02 12:54 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I just posted the stuff with Microchip; there's a lot of violence and gore elsewhere in the story. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Don't be so quick to judge. geoffsebesta 2009-11-02 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	What a relief! :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	stolisomancer 2009-11-02 04:31 am UTC (link)
	manofbats often has a different opinion than most. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	yaseen101 2009-11-02 05:42 am UTC (link)
	I have to manofbats, this was kind of boring to be honest. So far the only Punisher story I've ever liked was the 'Tyger' story posted a while back. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	punishermax 2009-11-02 12:29 pm UTC (link)
	But like someone said before, that is ALL the talking parts in like a 5 issue arc. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	wizardru 2009-11-02 10:27 pm UTC (link)
	This is actually some pretty decent character stuff, here. I liked it much better than most Ennis stuff. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	freezer818 2009-11-02 03:04 am UTC (link)
	He's the "White Hat" version of The Joker at this point. (Reply to this) (Parent)

jlroberson
2009-11-03 08:59 am UTC (link)

It's anti-preaching. What you're seeing here in this scene is a few things and all of them are about what Frank is and what friendship means to him. Frank is beyond friendship. The closest he could come was to allow the little imprisoned bit of his soul that still understands being human to tell Micro to run, before the Bad Thing happens. To run before Frank acts pretty much as he's programmed himself to do. Knowing that Micro's betrayed him is secondary, whether that's because he understands Micro's motives or not. He knows Micro has profited from heroin. That's it now.

Micro is trying to preach while being hopelessly compromised, trying to assume that must not matter to Frank as much as their friendship, because isn't that what humans are like? Remember, the crux of this story is that Micro believes Frank can be saved. Now, it's important he talks like this to Frank. Because it's true, but doesn't matter to Frank; he's considered that already. (There's little you can say to Frank he hasn't probably said to himself, one chilling thing about him; he has, in his mind, nothing to learn from, and therefore does not need, other humans) Because it shows Micro to be human in contrast to Frank, and that's including the somewhat cowardly moments. That's human, that's normal. (If Ennis meant it to be pathetic, he'd let you know, believe me) He's attached to life. And he believes in communication like people normally do. And he feels badly for Frank. He feels, Frank won't allow himself.

Frank doesn't preach, really. Part of his point is that he's mostly done with words. So I think this scene works very well. In fact, I think it's one of Ennis' more memorable with the character.

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