“I just downgraded this from 3 stars to 2. Because apparently I read this about 7 years ago, and I have ZERO memory of it. Nothing about it felt familiar when I was reading it, and it’s only when I came to goodreads to slap some stars on it that I realized I’d read it before.
That’s really all you need to know about this one. It’s nothing awful, but it’s pretty standard Punisher shit, pretty forgettable. Mob stuff, Punisher punishes, Punisher goes up against a C-level supervillain who tries to kill him in a pretty typical way. A wide-eyed kid dispenses some kid wisdom.
Maybe the later volumes are better and this builds to something more memorable. But I guess I wasn’t motivated to find out 7 years ago, and while my body has aged and betrayed me in so many ways, so, so many ways in the last 7 years, my interest in this series has gone unchanged.”