Looking for characters/runs/etc. with the same premise as Punisher: anti-hero killing scumbags. Hitman comes to mind but I'm open to anythingQuality doesn't matter much as long as it isn't boring
>>151873130I'd say /wsr/ but it's Christmas so I'll bite>Kill Or Be Killed>Paul Kupperberg/Marv Wolfman Vigilante>Wild Dog>The Crow>Jonah Hex (but it's a Western)>Grips>The Shadow Blood and Judgment>The Shadow Year One
More /a/ material, but "Amateur Vigilante," and "The Scum of good and evil." DC has "Wild Dog," and then there's the short lived "Fool killer Max." Not really crazy about DC's synergy take of Vigilante. The Jonah Hex comics are also a gem.
>>151873187Continuing:>Jennifer Blood>Red Team>Deadshot Beginnings>Judge Dredd>Marshal Law>Dredger (harder to find but there's a new Hardcover coming out reprinting the Action strips from Rebellion, it's one of Ennis' favorites)>Wolverine by Rucka
Awwesome!
>>151873310Last batch for now:>Sin City>Spawn (sometimes)>New York City Outlaws>Judge Dredd>Marshal Law>Jon Sable, Freelance>Bloodshot>Hard Looks>The Huntress (Cavalieri run)
>>151873130What I'll never understand is why it's so controversial for comic characters to kill when action heroes do it all the time
He punishes better than Punisher
>>151873849Because comic characters (superheroes) are made for children or men who refuse to grow up.
>>151873871>>151873187Based Shadow
>>151873849I suspect it has something to do with “mastery of environment”In real life of course, no matter how skilled or prepared you are. You can never have true mastery of the environment in some combat situationSo in a real life dangerous situation. Innocent people can get hurt by stray bullets. Or you could kill the wrong guy mistakenly.For some reason people find it easier to accept that batman can knock out henchmen and they never ever die of a brain injury and he’s never wrong, but the idea of a guy with a gun just killing the “right people” rubs them the wrong way. Maybe because it’s theoretically easier to replicate Even in punisher max where it’s gritty and more real I don’t think we ever see the punisher get a stray bullet that kills an innocent. Although I’m sure that’s been a story in the main universe (and likely then revealed he was set up and innocent too)Plus there’s a psychological element. Far less people care that judge Dredd kills all the time than the punisher. Why?Because Dredd sees it as an important function of just enforcing justice via his jobPunisher enjoys killing people, and couldn’t stop if he wanted to
>>151874127Great writeup but I think with Frank "enjoyment" is a tricky term because he doesn't get joy out of it. It's more that it feeds his insatiable hunger for an endless war, and to him what he does is "making the world sane".
>>151873130Didn't this vigilante book never finished?
