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The Punisher Vol. 3: Business as Usual Paperback – February 3, 2003
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- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMarvel Comics
- Publication dateFebruary 3, 2003
- Grade level7 - 9
- Dimensions6.5 x 0.25 x 10 inches
- ISBN-100785110143
- ISBN-13978-0785110149
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- Publisher : Marvel Comics (February 3, 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0785110143
- ISBN-13 : 978-0785110149
- Grade level : 7 - 9
- Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 0.25 x 10 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,554,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #12,503 in Marvel Comics & Graphic Novels (Books)
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Darick Robertson is an American comic book artist, writer and creator with a decades long career in the industry. His notable works include co-creating the award winning “Transmetropolitan”, “The Boys” and “Happy!” He has illustrated for both Marvel and DC Comics on characters including Batman, The Justice League, Wolverine, The Punisher and Spider-man.
www.DarickRobertson.com
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After the initial 12 part first volume, an amazingly fun run, pulp as hell and dark at heart, the series had somewhat left me down, as the second collection went into way too bizarre grounds to be put into the same category of excellence as the first one. This one, though, is another step in the right direction, as well as the beginning of Ennis' total repel of traditional superheroes.
One one hand we have the opening two parter and the concluding single issue story, with unparalleled artist Steve Dillon, grounding the Punisher a bit more in "realistic" pulp crime territory. Still bizarre, still over the top, but without openly fantastic elements. The former is the tale of the Punisher's rescue of a kidnapped mafia don, apparently to get him to stop an all-out New York mafia war... But what the Punisher ultimately has in mind may not be what you expect at all! The latter self-contained issue is a violent, morbid story about the eternal low-key civil war in Ulster, its degeneration into turf war, its loss of any pretence of being about politics and not ere hate. Brilliant, classic Ennis work.
In-between are: A self-contained story of a journalist blackmailing the Punisher into riding along with him to get a story... and receiving far more than he thought he would! A 2-parter about, huh, mafia soldiers being mysteriously kidnapped after having their legs cut off... with a motor-mouthed self-talking Wolverine picking up their trail ending up fighting the Punisher, and basically making himself ridiculous while getting his ass constantly kicked by the Punisher. An entertaining little senseless tale, but a bit too bizarre again an too unfair side, as far as satyrs go. I imagine Ennis was enjoying a bit too much free reign, which he used to vent some frustration towards the dominant genre of US comics and, most of all, its general trademark bad writing. Not enough to put off comic geeks, though, and quite enough to win non-comic fans over, while reminding them exactly that superheroes are merely the flashy, baroque façade of the comics world, but that there's so much more underneath. I am actually looking forward to the hunt for the rest of this series' collections once again!
Overall, I prefer this TPB to the previous one (Business As Usual) and to the Punisher vol. 5 miniseries (Welcome Back Frank).
I was surprised to find this volume as I thought Ennis has written the MAX series, along with a series of one shots - I didn't realise he did the series proper! And why are 9 out of the 10 books out of print?! This was book was the funniest Punisher book I've read yet. It's very dark humour but if you're a fan of Ennis and the Punisher you'll laugh, especially at the Wolverine cross-over and showdown. The things Frank does to Logan...
Long time collaborators Steve Dillon and Darrick Robertson illustrate all the stories and do a damn fine job throughout. Dillon is the artist to draw Frank just as Ennis is the author to write Frank.
If you've enjoyed Ennis' work on The Punisher MAX series, the decision to pick this up is a no-brainer. Excellent writing, great stories, excellent artwork, I recommend this highly and will keep an eagle eye out for the other books in the series. Hopefully Marvel will reprint them soon.
This 3rd HARDCOVER collection has the same cover as the 4th PAPERBACK collection - frank with a gun pointed up. The paperback Vol. 3 has wolverine on it.
All collections are from the 37 issue marvel knights series that came after the maxi-series called "welcome back, frank".
Hardcover Vol. 2 = #1-7, and #13-18.
Hardcover Vol. 3 = #19-27.
Hardcover Vol. 4 = ?
Paperback Vol. 2 = #1-7.
Paperback Vol. 3 = #13-18.
Paperback Vol. 4 = #20-26 or 27. (depending on source)
Paperback Vol. 5 = #19, 27-32.
Great writing on this one. The story gets more bizarre than before, but still easy to follow and typical dillon artwork.






