Customer Reviews

Punisher Max: Girls in White Dresses (Punisher Max (Quality Paper)) (v. 11)

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I'm a huge punisher fan. I love the character his personality and his story. I don't need to tell anyone that Garth Ennis really got it right. I had a bit of anxiety when I heard that there would be a new writer, I mean those are big shoes to fill. I've never heard of Gregg Hurwitz but he comes in highly praised. This story was just ok. The art work made it hard for me to follow the action and a lot of the characters look the same. It wasn't bad but it just seemed like something was missing. I like to read the punisher for those F#*k yeah! Moments where really bad dudes get whats comming to them in ever so creative ways. I never really came to despise the characters in this book and the art was so choppy at times that I didn't even know if I was looking at a new character or someone from a previous scene. I hope the next arc is better but if you skip this one no biggie.

i love garth's run of the punisher....but this just isnt "it". the premise is very promising but the charecters both good and bad are not intersting to say the least. it feels like a generic b-movie.

This is the Punisher MAX Series. Ennis was perfect for the Punisher. Hard-edge and gritty storylines with that twist.
Hurwitz's storyline has absolutely no twists. A direct ripoff from the "magnificent seven" plot about a poor terrorised mexican town hiring mercenaries to clean up their town, it was obvious, barely into the opening sequences, that the abducted young women were coopted to produce synthetic drugs and there was no cult involved. The explanation of their missing eyeballs and lungs was not done very well as the artwork was not clear.
Similarly the explanation that the Punisher did not kill the girl (thus maintaining his zero innocent body count) because of a paranormal incident with the girl telling him to dig up her body to find an incompatible bullet slug was just ridiculous. Anyway, why throw in a paranormal sequence here as it doesn't gel with the rest of the storyline. The Punisher could have just worked it out logically.
The Jigsaw character was just pathetic in this piece. he was a walk-on character just to give a named baddie for the Punisher to kick around.
The artwork was very disappointing. I don't like this style of artwork as it smacks of the Maleev style (daredevil) which looks like badly traced drawings from photos. The style is static.
For someone used to the terrific style and expectation of the Punisher MAX series, this issue was disappointing.

Gregg Hurwitz is an amazing writer, I've loved every one of his novels.
Recently branching out into comics he has written two runs on Foolkiler and a few Wolverine tales.
The Punisher is a perfect place for a crime fiction author to be, and after the run by Garth Ennis there are some big boots to fill. Hurwitz not only fills the boots, but bursts them at the seams.
The Punisher is in Mexico helping out a small town where girls go missing. It rings of true life events in Juarez , however here Frank Castle gets to the bottom of things and with his own special brand of justice makes things right. Or at least as right as they can be.
There is also a bonus for crime fiction lovers as fan favorite Robert Crais has written the introduction.

With Garth Ennis turning over the wheel I was worried that it wouldn't be the same. There are some differences but the quality is what I've come to expect and love about this series.

The Punisher MAX series is a brutal, but very poignant response to the powerlessness that many people feel towards institutionalized injustice such as: organized crime, human trafficking and corporate corruption. Frank Castle(The Punisher) methodically and systematically weeds out all of these elements of our society that we all wish we could do something about. I don't recommend this title for anyone sensitive to violence, for it is very much that, but I do encourage and implore potential readers to consider the depth that also comes with this once one-dimensional comic-book character.

This is a pornographic book capitalizing on another title which is "Girls in white dresses." I ordered it in all innocence and was deceived.i

Gregg Hurwitz takes over where Garth Ennis left-off. I really liked the story. It was freaky because it happens in certain parts of Mexico, people getting snatched off the streets. Personally, I thought Frank's fight with Jigsaw could of been drawn out a little more, but the story was great with alot of blood & violence. Pure Punisher euphoria. I loved the art in this, it matched with the gritty telling of the novel. I highly recommend this to anyone who reads the Max series of Punisher or Daredevil, it was well worth the price.