We have Jon Bernthal to thank for Marvel Comics bringing back Frank Castle as The Punisher.
To catch you up to speed, the woke weirdos at Marvel Comics did away with The Punisher back in 2022. They changed the logo and replaced the character, as they’ve done with tons of other characters that also all failed, which includes Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, NINO Nova, Ironheart, Captain America Falcon, the list goes on.
Marvel Comics even went so far as to completely destroy Frank Castle by removing the very reason he’s The Punisher: they brought his wife back from the dead, leaving Frank demoralized and forsaken by his resurrected wife, Maria (per IGN).
The reason they got rid of Frank Castle is that they hate what The Punisher represents. Many people in the police and military – in the real world – are inspired by The Punisher and even use his logo. Well, the wokies hate that. They hate the police. They hate the military. Of course, they hate Trump. So they did away with The Punisher. They made Frank Castle give up his war on crime and replaced him with a different character.
Well, the most recent series was canceled after four issues. How’d that work out?
Frank Castle returns in Punisher: Red Band
Back to Jon Bernthal. We don’t know if he is directly to thank (more on that below), but Marvel Comics has announced a new series where Frank Castle will be back as The Punisher with the original skull logo.
It’s a new five-issue limited series titled Punisher: Red Band written by Benjamin Percy, with art by Julius Ohta, which gets released in September.
Frank Castle is BACK
Here is the synopsis:
Reread and reload, True Believers – Frank Castle is BACK. With no memories, a full clip and a thirst for wrathful vengeance, his violent search for answers could only be chronicled in a Red Band series! Bullets will fly, blood will flow, and the citizens and criminals of New York City alike will fear the name THE PUNISHER!
Frank Castle is back in R-rated Red Band book
The writer added in the press release:
“Frank Castle—that dark-hearted, vengeance machine, that monster who fights monsters—is one of my all-time favorite characters, and Punisher is a series I’ve been gunning to write for a long, long time. Not only is Frank back in black, but this is a Red Band book. You know what that means. I’m going to lean in fully and push the very limits of my favorite genre: hairy psychopaths. This is going to be as gritty and bloody as it gets. Street-level mayhem awaits you. And Julius Ohta—who I collaborated with previously on Hellverine—is bringing all the blood and fire and rage to the page with his beautiful, terrifying art.”
Jon Bernthal back as The Punisher in the MCU
Of course, Jon Bernthal has returned as The Punisher in the MCU’s Daredevil: Born Again series on Disney+. Bernthal is also developing a spinoff Punisher special for the streamer.
Now, Marvel Comics brings back Frank Castle as The Punisher. Coincidence? Nope.
Marvel Comics sell-out Tom Brevoort admitted the comics only “serve as creative fodder for eventual film and animation development.” That probably explains why 50% of comic shops have failed and the MCU has completely tanked.
Disney and Kevin Feige are the worst things to have happened to Marvel Comics
The bozos at Marvel Studios are trying to come up with their own ideas and are telling the comics people to follow suit — instead of being inspired by the comics, which is what made the MCU so good when it first started. They’re putting their own ideas in the comics first to test how it looks. Again, how’s that working out? By comparison, Jon Favreau, Joss Whedon, James Gunn, and the Russos are all fans of the comics. They were inspired by their love of comics and developed the MCU. Post-Endgame? Marvel producers told their directors not to read comics. How’d it work out?
Disney and Kevin Feige are the worst things that have happened to the comics. They’d be best leaving Marvel Comics completely alone. MCU fans don’t buy comics. Disney and Feige have ruined the business.
Thank you, Jon Bernthal
So, thank you, Jon Bernthal for bringing back The Punisher. We need more creatives like Bernthal. Keep fighting the good fight.
This is what he said back in 2021 about The Punisher and making sure The Punisher is done right before joining the MCU:
That character, in particular, has real, real, real deep, deep meaning for me and resonance in me. He’s really in my heart, man. He’s really in my bones. I’m enormously protective of that character. I’ve said before that there’s nothing in this world more important to me than my wife and my kids, and only until you understand that kind of love and what it really means to willingly die for somebody, [do you understand] what it would be like if somebody took them from you. That’s a road and a darkness and a rage that really, really scares me and brings me to places that I’ve worked the last 20 years to get away from. So I was really grateful, respectful and weary of the places where that role took me and the world in which I had to live in.
That being said, that’s where that character needs to be. It needs to be a level of darkness. I think if there’s any let up on that character, you do a disservice to the character, to every iteration of the character, to every comic book that’s come before, and to all of the unbelievable fans of the character. This character means so much to people in the military. So like I said before, it’s not about whether you do the character; it’s about whether you can do it right, and I’m only interested in doing it right.
