The Punisher Vol. 4: Full Auto [Paperback]

Garth Ennis (Author), Steve Dillon (Author), Darick Robertson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Punisher | Publication Date: July 9, 2003

The Punisher discovers a strange society that lives in the subway tunnels of New York and their tie to the rampant disappearance of homeless people, and meets the one person maybe even deadlier than himself - Elektra!

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Comics (July 9, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785111492
• ISBN-13: 978-0785111498
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,461,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Darick Robertson is an American artist best known for his work as a comic book illustrator. Highly prolific, Robertson has illustrated hundreds of comics in his twenty plus years in the industry. His body of work ranges from science fiction characters of his own creation to headlining on renowned classic characters from Marvel and DC Comics. Robertson is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the biting satires TRANSMETROPOLITAN and THE BOYS.

In January of 2010 he wrote and illustrated CONAN: THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWN for Dark Horse Comics.

Darick currently lives in California with his wife and two children. When he's not drawing comics, which is almost all the time, he creates custom action figures, writes music, sings and plays guitar.

Original art for sale can be found at tinyurl.com/DarickR

* Special thanks to Joey and Sara at ComicVine for the interview video contained in this profile.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars decent feature story, poor back-up, February 5, 2004

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"abones80" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Punisher Vol. 4: Full Auto (Paperback)

I had come to hope for the best from Garth Ennis, who many have said is the definitive Punisher writer. For the most part I have enjoyed his other Punisher stuff (including Born and Welcome Back Frank), unfortunately this one falls short of the mark. This trade starts off pretty well with a standard story about corrupt cops and how Frank should handle it. Not bad, but nothing I havent seen before. The next one around is about a mob enforcer who is obsessed with finding a giant squid, he looks for it off the East River or something. It was pretty strange, but I liked the change of pace. The third story was terrible, it revolves around bums from the tunnels of New York kidnapping people for some strange purpose. How many times does this lame plot have to be rehashed? Everyone from Neil Gaiman in his novel Neverwhere to Todd McFarlane have done this story to death. It also takes a turn for the pointlessly grotesque when it is revealed that the leader of the bums was trapped for days under his enormously fat mother after she had a heart attack. It may sound interesting but the story just ends up being disgusting. Big dissapointment there. Not the best of efforts from Ennis, who can be provacative but here trades his edginess for standard plotting and stupid gross outs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars did not gear into full auto, December 9, 2003

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punishing fan (Mahopac, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Punisher Vol. 4: Full Auto (Paperback)

Garth Ennis is an excellant writer and his first punisher was one of the characters greatest moments. This volume seems to be a collection of offbeat and so-so stories. The first is about two cops who may be "dirty" and this is the high light of the volume. There should be more action (Steve Dillion style) but, the story is great and gives you an interesting final impression. The second story is about a mobster who is obsessed with an urban legend. Great action with a bad and corny story. Finally, the third story is about poor people who disapear in the sewers. Tom Mandrake does the art work which is horrible and doesn't suit the punisher. The story is retarded and nothing you want to take the time to read. I wish all the volumes were either like the second or the first volume. This isn't great but, hey, it is the punisher. On a final note why does marvel keep post-poning the streets of laredo.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Never quite kicks into full gear, December 31, 2003

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Punisher Vol. 4: Full Auto (Paperback)

Volume 4 of the Punisher TPB series; Full Auto collects three stories that are alright but never quite kick into high gear. The first story concerns our favorite vigilante on the trail of two cops that may be dirty, the second tale focuses on a mobster obsessed with what may be an urban legend, and the final story finds Frank going toe to toes with a horde of homeless people underground. The first story is worth the price of admission alone, but the second story is disappointing to say the least. The final story manages to be effectively creepy and reminiscent of Garth Ennis' Preacher series. The art in all the tales is solid, but this TPB collection actually manages to show Ennis at his best and near worst as a writer. All in all, this isn't the overall worst Punisher collection of Ennis' current run, and is worth a look for Punisher fans.