Marvel Knights The Punisher #1 Long Review
Marvel Knights was a sub imprint of Marvel Comics that gave creative teams more freedom to tell Marvel stories from a more mature perspective. The Punisher was given the darker Marvel Knights treatment with this year 2000 volume, which draws inspiration from the more adult comics published at the time by publishers such as Image, Darkhorse, and Vertigo. The cover of The Punisher #1 shows Frank Castle on the cover drawn in ultra realistic detail. He is wearing military fatigues and his trademark Punisher T-shirt. He is also wearing a shoulder holster and holding a large rifle against the background of an orange flaming skull with red targets over its eyes. The upper left shows the Marvel Knights Logo with a Punisher skull and the issue number. As our story opens up, the Punisher is holding a gun to the neck of a scrawny well-dressed man in a white tux with a ponytail. Bodies, blood and cash are strewn about the room. Frank Castle, the Punisher tells the man to get...